text: This conversation is just like any other, as it is taken from a certain "point of view," what I mentioned about Missionaries destroying the culture is true.  They saw it as their "Christian duty" to save the heathen Hawaiian's from their own barbaric cultural practices; only real question is, who were the "barbarians?"  From my point of view, that would be the Missionaries, who are the barbarians, as Hawaiian's did not need saving from themselves or their culture.  
  
  Once whaling ships encountered the Islands it was a case of contagion, that eventually destroyed the local culture, right along the missionaries efforts to "save them from themselves" and not to mention the various diseases the sailors brought to the pristine island environments; it was another "death of the Aztec's fiasco" due to cultural contamination and it nearly killed off the Hawaiian race. 
  
  The History books do not tell the whole story, or does it cover everything. What you do end up with is a distorted view.