The Hawaiian people have had a hundred years of practice in American economic processes. and 50 years of practice in our political pattern. While there are many oriental peoples represented in the population of Hawaii. including a Japanese segment which is the largest of the group. 183.000. or 36.7 percent. their ties are fundamentally with the American mainland. and their pattern is our basically AngloSaxon concept. Taking the Japanese for example. since Hawaii became an American Territory in 1900. there has been practically no immigration. so that the overwhelming majority of these people are nativeborn American citizens and products of our American publicschool system. If we now say that after all these years the people of Hawaii of Japanese descent cannot be trusted to cope with their first communistic threat. what hope can we give to the Japanese people in Japan who. after only 8 years. are expected to withstand what undoubtedly will be infinitely greater pressure? How can we ask them to have faith in the pattern we set out for them. if after 100 years we have no faith that their people in Hawaii can be trusted with full citizenship in statehood?
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