Insular Empire 30 second PBS trailer

We had to cut two trailers for PBS -- this is the 30 second version. Visit www.theinsularempire.com for more information.

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• the
• insular
• empire
• guam
• saipan
• cnmi
• tinian
• colony
• colonies
• decolonization
• marianas
• mariana
• islands
• chamorro
• refaluwasch
• carolinian
• chamoru

[delandgixxer750]

Guam can't be a state it's not because it's so far away but the Island can't offer anything to the Union!!!!, each state gives something back to the Union, well maybe you can offer bettlenuts

[vwarheit]

@delandgixxer750

Watch The Insular Empire and you'll learn the legal reasons why Guam cannot become a state. As for what it has to offer: Guam's strategic location and deep water harbor have made the US unwilling to relinquish control for over 100 years. Guam also has the highest enlistment rate in the US. Guam gives more to the Union per capita, and per square mile, than any state in the union. But many on Guam don't want statehood - and they should be allowed to decide for themselves.

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 Why don't you go look up the article "Guardians of Our Soil: Indigenous Responses to Post-World War II Military Land Appropriation on Guam." by Anne Perez Hattori

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 I briefly looked into it and I hope you don't believe the US liberated the chamorro's, because the US plans of building Guam up to become a military base had not included the chamorro's, for the military was shocked to even find survivors. They obliterated the two areas where the main population was located: Agana and Sumay. This fact supports many other facts that the US's intentions were to kill off most of the chamorro people.

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 That's not the point, the point is Why does the US still have colonies and still are acquiring colonies? Why would a "democratic" country rule Guam under a dictatorship, for a brief time? Why did the US "take" land from the chamorro people after the war? A lot of these lands were good agriculture lands and the people of guam could've still continued their agrarian culture, but the US didn't allow for it. THe US's plans on Guam did not include the chamorro people.

[delandgixxer750]

@vampireofstyx One you don't know me but I'll tell you something go look at some the the items at the college about WWII on the Island look for the name John "Jack" Eddy or go down the the War In the Pacific and ask about him and who he was & if it's was not for the U.S. you would be speaking Japaneses right now!!!!

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 So what is the intent of your argument.

If you know the history of Guam you would also know that the Chamorro population was never substantial and the population by demographics seems about accurate to how many people were here pre-war Guam.

Just because you lived on Guam, doesn't mean you know anything about Guam. I'v been living here for 19 years and i still don't know much about the history. A lot of what i'm learning in my guam history class at UOG is news to me.

[delandgixxer750]

@vampireofstyx inported labor because the locals were untrained to do the jobs at hand & not they are just lazy and I know the history of thew island I have roots on the island & I lived on Guam for 22yrs of my life!!!!

[delandgixxer750]

@vampireofstyx the English were able to house there troops in Americans home all the taxes the people paid would go back to England, the Americans had no voice could not speak out against England with out being put in jail or wiped all the the roads on Guam come from taxes here in the States from DOT and I could go on & on but why your small minded get off the island & see the World

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 While many did leave the island, the United States imported labor from the phillipines and other places. The United States didn't send them back so they became naturalized on Guam and are now a part of the population.

Many times the filipino labor population outnumbered how many chamorros were on Island.

There have also been countless times labor was imported to Guam combined with the population in the bases have left a small population of chamorros on Guam.

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 The high enlistment rate has historical roots. If only you knew a little about the history of Guam, you would understand. After the U.S. "saved" Guam from Japanese torture, beheading, and forced-labor, they felt indebted to America. So families will have their children join the army and we're very patriotic to the United States.

Today it's an issue with capitalism. There are barely any jobs on Guam, so kids join the military and leave guam to get a job.

[vampireofstyx]

@delandgixxer750 I don't think the documentary is trying to advocate for guam to be a state. The documentary seems to challenge the hypocrisy of the whole foundation of America.

That although the United States was a colony itself and fought against it to become one of the worlds strongest power in modern times, they are doing to Guam what the British have done to the U.S.