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On the Lois Bujold list, a perennial argument about the conquest and treatment of Komarr saw someone suggesting Hawaii as a model of successful integration. After only 70 years it was a state, and a year later a future President was born there! "Um" I thought and I went to look at Wikipedia.
"By 1820, Eurasian diseases, famine, and wars among the chiefs killed more than half of the Native Hawaiian population."
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Give Barrayar credit: even after applying an elite perspective bias, they seem to be treating Komarr better. Then again, all but the first five years since the Conquest have been under one of two would-be enlightened despots.
"By 1820, Eurasian diseases, famine, and wars among the chiefs killed more than half of the Native Hawaiian population."
( Read more... )
Give Barrayar credit: even after applying an elite perspective bias, they seem to be treating Komarr better. Then again, all but the first five years since the Conquest have been under one of two would-be enlightened despots.