Why a Royal Princess From the Pacific is in Arkansas
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- The U.S. tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Pacific paradise of the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland “for the good of all mankind.” But the Bikinians didn’t know the U.S. would contaminate their island and make it uninhabitable.
Now nearly 70 years later, many Marshall Islanders have moved to Springdale, Arkansas, nearly 600 miles from the nearest ocean. But as many Marshall Islanders build new lives here, they know Arkansas is not their permanent home, and their nuclear legacy is something both Americans and the next generation of Marshallese need to remember. Tabish Talib traveled to the Ozarks to learn how the Marshallese are staying connected to their roots so far from their home.
Check out part one of this report: The U.S. Secretly Studied Pacific Islanders After Exposing Them To Radiation • The U.S. Tested Atomic...
Chapters:
0:00 Why are there so many Pacific Islanders in Arkansas?
1:42 Exodus and Atomic Testing
3:01 How the U.S. Tricked Bikinians For Their Land
4:58 Celebrating Bikini Day
5:43 Spongebob and Godzilla
6:17 Escaping Climate Change
7:18 The Royal Princess
8:37 History of Bikini Swimsuit
9:23 The Needs of a Growing Community
10:07 Compact of Free Association
11:09 The First Marshallese in Arkansas
12:13 What Do The Marshallese Want Today?
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Did you know that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands for 12 Years while secretly studying the effects of radiation on its citizens? Watch here: ruclips.net/video/UDNLrOSCOf8/видео.html
Why don’t they talking about corruption tho
Well the U.S. was built on genocide and slavery so the constant capitalistic wars and evil experiments on and of it's soil should not be shocking. What is shocking is how people still act shock even knowing U.S. history. This country has a huge judgement over it.
@@darealislandboy4757 it's called whitewashing history and hypocrisy.
Geronimo married into Tahiti royal family.
we know already since 1980 and US is the first to make a nuclear bomb.. that's why if russia says they have the most powerful bomb well maybe since 1990, but today i don't think so...
To say the Marshallese are welcoming or friendly is an understatement. Despite the hell this country has inflicted on their islands, they remain the warmest and most beautiful people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. I live in Springdale.
And that's exactly why they were targeted because they were too nice to the enemy
@@tuckerbugeater I see you make it a habit of giving people too much credit for what they SHOULD do.... sounds about WHITE
@@tuckerbugeater the enemy that destroyed their homes
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@@tuckerbugeater The enemy that gave them a new home after taking over their lands and using it for nuclear missile test. American White people doing people things as usual. Nothing new here.
@@tuckerbugeater Sounds like someone *giving* someone herpes...Work on your logic. Learn more- comment less.
As a recent transplant to Northwest Arkansas, I knew there was a large population that was mostly employed (and exploited) by the poultry industry here, but I did not know why they had such a large presence here. My heart goes out to them for being forced from their land and culture and having to live in such a different cultural and physical climate
As a NWA resident, I appreciate seeing a transplant who recognizes the exploitation by the poultry industry (@ Tyson and Simmons), especially that of people of color and immigrants. We need more people willing to acknowledge that in the area. I’ll take a million educated transplants over the native residents who turn a blind eye.
@@zknight4481 amen dude
The women, unfortunately were exploited by local lawyers wanting them to put their babies up for adoption.
@@zknight4481 *Then go to Russia and fight along Russian soldiers.*
There is a park in my town and at one family gathering area you will always see this large group of islanders playing volleyball and having a cookout while their kids run around an play. Sure sounds like they hate it here.
My grandmother was taken off her land for "progress". She was put on a plane to NYC and told that she'd have a job and a great life. She was put in a slum and her job was packing apples. She had acres that she was never paid for and it was used to make hotels and play areas for the wealthy. This story happened too many times and my heart hurts for the Marshall Islanders. It's hard to be patriotic and love the country you live in when the only reason you are there is because they exploited your people. I hope that there is a good solution soon. We can't lose these traditions and cultures
Well you don’t have to stay here and no we aren’t perfect but most aren’t perfect bc human nature includes mistakes. Stop making patriotism bad when patriotism means different things to different people. I’m a patriot. I also feel for this situation but your choice of words makes it sound like patriots are just evil people taking opportunistic advantage when in reality that’s human nature and relevant on.y in perception. If you take an opportunistic advantage in any way in any situation,it’s the same as this in a smaller scale but still has a consequence to someone else most likely. This is a sad situation no doubt however they have gone from the 167 people that were taken off the island to over 4000 I believe the video said so they are a growing population and seem to be thriving.
@@matthewshannongreen1900 are you serious? This is your response to literally having my families property stolen? You want me to go back to where? Brooklyn where I was born or Puerto Rico which is a territory where everyone has been a citizen since 1918. Being a true patriot means holding your country accountable to act honorably. My family has served this country through military or civil service since before the territory was completely governed by the United States. You might want to read a book that doesn't focus on the stupidity of manifest destiny before you come and make comments like that.
@@stephaniefunk9142 luckily we live in a country where we are, or at least used to be, free to have an opinion and voice it…and most of us come from people that were exploited by someone…I’m of Indian Descent…………………….so yeah, I am qualified to speak the same as you. The difference is how we choose to see things.I have sympathy and empathy for the plight of your grandmother and these people and all the others but I’m also not going to run down the country and just weaken it more. Believe me I have no confidence in our crappy government and I have no doubts in that they have treated peeps wrong both in the past and now and in the future….but if you live here and take advantage of the opportunities afforded here then you too are advancing off the backs of all those wronged in the past…but acknowledging it and learning from it are good things.
@@matthewshannongreen1900 isn't that nice. You literally started this by telling me to go back where I came from and now you're native and have a right so speak whatever way you like? I agree. Keep speaking. You are absolutely entitled to freedom of speech and I am entitled to tell you how tone deaf and insensitive you are about a situation that's literally still in play. Please continue to speak your mind so the whole internet's can see just how easy it is to tone police strangers. I think you have a personal issue that my families experience isn't part of. You have your own problems and my comments are just the easiest for you to debate because low brows love picking low fruit. Please, continue to tell me how I personally shouldn't have difficulties being patriotic in the face of my own countries abuse of power. I don't have to change my comments because you are bothered
@@stephaniefunk9142 What I said was you can go someplace else if you don’t like it. And I didn’t personally attack you but I obviously hit some nerve bc you certainly did but I’m the low one with a personal issue..got it. Talk crap about me personally all you want, people like you don’t hurt my feelings bc I don’t have thin skin. I also give a crap less what the internet thinks about me bc I exist in real life not just the internet world. And you don’t have to change what you comment just like I don’t. I guess you didn’t see the parts where I said I sympathize with the people that have suffered these issues bc all you can harp on is the comment I made about the patriotism thing even though I’m sure you have benefitted from being an American? The same America that did this. So while you are feeling guilty about patriotism, go ahead and renounce all the things you have gotten bc you were born an American and find some place that fits you better. I’m really sorry for your grandmothers plight. I’m sure she deserved better than she got. And she probably would have had a better life had she not had to come to America. As for you, believe me when I say, I also feel sorry you have had to be lowered to having to live in America and that you couldn’t have remained in wherever your family was from. I’ll pray that you find the right place that can make up for the evils. Have a great day and may all the retribution you seek be found.
So glad to see the story of my people told. So happy to call John Moody my dad! I hope I get to visit the Marshall islands one day! 🇲🇭
whoa iakwe waj i always wondered how our people got settled in Arky
For those who are unaware godzilla is no joke about nuclear weapons. It's an allegory for them. Godzilla is a symbol of the destruction of the bombs dropped on Japan.
"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men - Godzilla". - B.O.C.
@@thomas_cooke my dude just try to correct me like he's smart. Epic fail.
An analogy is comparing two things. "...like a needle in a haystack."
An allegory is usually some form of art or media that can be interpreted to have hidden meaning that isn't directly stated.
As in Godzilla being a stand in for a nuclear bomb, and utter destruction and scars it leaves upon the land and people.
But alright. I hope that made you feel big and smart for a little bit.
@@thomas_cooke why do you delete your post? Don't want the world to see you lack basically literary knowledge taught to 11 and 10 year olds?
@@thomas_cooke ratio'd
The original, black-and-white 'Rubber Monster' movie can also be seen as a reference to the Biblical Leviathan as well as containing one to the Great Oxigenation Event theorized in Geology, in the ending of the film.
For the US to do all this damage but the Marshallese can't be given automatic citizenship?? It's so wrong.
Marshall islands is on the other side of the world,learn geography.
@@justinarzola4584 so what you don't just come like 'hey let me bomb your home and the ground to dust, but don't expect me to help ew brown people'
Marshall islands is on the Oceania continent not the Americas.
@@justinarzola4584 so is hawaii
@@Sinaeb Hawaii is pretty close to North America,geographically connected to the us but culturally more oceanic or Polynesian.
I've learned so much more from RUclips than in school.
Because in school they pick and choose WHAT THEY WANT TO TEACH US !!!
I got through college by watching and learning on RUclips. Schools sucks
Amen
@@cartier2312 RUclips teaches you propaganda.
@@tuckerbugeater i got news for you about the US education system, pal
I grew up in NW Arkansas and I had no idea this was the reason there are so many Marshallese here. So sad to know why
Assuming you're Marshallese its sad that you don't know about your own history.
This is why I talk to people when I am out, my wife is use to it now (cause 13 years) but at first she would ask me why I talk to people I don't know. I tell her and other people, because everyone has a story, and I collect stories/ info just to have. But it's funny cause I am so shy, and get nervous when I meet new people, but learning about people and where they came from, and learn about them alllllllll the way back in time THATS what its all about for me. Good day my friend.
@@thelthrythquezada8397 Blessings to you and your family. 🕊️
Plz visit Springdale to pay respects
Marshallese cartel
Let's not talk about the fact the royal family and land owners who lease the islands to the US government for millions and millions leave the rest of the country in extreme poverty, living in shacks. While they buy mansions in hawaii instead of a proper hospital, where they was bloody bandages because the hospital doesnt have money to get new supplies. Where they leave marshallese people to starve because food is so expensive. Or they eat fish contaminated with cigatara and cutt their own fingers off from the pain. What the US did using someone's home to test nuclear weapons is horrific, and this is the unfortunate outcome to that decision.
Agreed, I've always wondered who those land owners were and what do they do with the money they receive
@@godboy114 they live in hawaii in mansions and collect their monthly paychecks of hundreds of thousands the US pays them to use their land for the missle sites.
As a Marshallese native this is very true.
Exactly!!!
@@islandguy6928 don’t worry, I’m one of the grandchild of a iroj (cheif) and I really want to help Marshall island in the future as a rikaki who liki anij!
Having lived in the Marshall Islands on three (3) different times (Nov. 1996 to Nov. 1998) (May 1999 to May 2003) (May 2004 to January 2012). I was blessed to work at Kwajalein Atoll on Kwajalein and Roi Namur. For the Kwajalein Police Department under the US Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Contractor. I have visited Majuro over twenty (20) times staying there extensively. Plus was married to Marshallese wife, now she is in heaven (RIP/GOD speed). We met in 1997, married in state of Hawaii in 1999. Married until her passing in 2016. Now, I am a widower, we raised our sons and daughters to appreciate culture from the Marshall Islands. Now, in my opinion, no matter what. If the Islands of the Marshall Islands perished. Then it is the obligation of America to accept all Marshallese as Marshallese-Americans and grant American citizenship. Plus continue to pay the land owner payments and Compact funds too. This is the only way to right a wrong. I thank GOD for having me experience life in the Marshall Islands for over 13.8 years. GOD Speed to Marshall Islands and people. GOD Bless America.
The USA did the same thing to us in one of our islands “Vieques”. They were bombing/Nuclear testing and the residents ended up with all kinds of CANCERS, many got sick, others deformed, it was horrible and the USA wouldn’t pay for the treatments they perpetrated. Till that Island took them to court and had the military leave. None of us forgot that day because many came over to Puerto Rico seeking medical care. 🇵🇷😥
damn that's messed up!! this is so wrong!!
What’s really amazing is that most of these countries, and people who a strong love for the USA and it’s culture even after these horrific things have been done to them. I will never truly understand why?
It is truly despicable what America has done throughout the world.
Eurocentric destruction is so real and disgusting
Every country on the planet has dirty and unclean hands. Every nation is terrible in terms of what it's done.
And continues to do so till date!
The enemies of freedom
@Tristo Smitty I am and I agree with Boho
Sad, so sad. These people seem so humble after all of this happened to them. I learned about the nuclear testing a while back but never about the inhabitants of the islands or where they went. That's part of the history they try to hide
Very interesting story. This Arkansas boy is glad your here and sorry for your loss. Hopefully it is not forever. May the future see you able to once again feel Marshallese sun on your faces.
My grandfather was on a boat during one of the tests a few miles away. He saw his skeleton through his hands that were over his eyes and many of his crew mates pissed their pants and cried for their mothers. He then was told to dive into the radiated water with no gear
My condolences. Very loyal and brave he was for his country, but man the higher ups sees everything as pawns
He is a strong man. A lot of his crew passed away from cancer but somehow he is still here at 93 years old!
@@progressivechihuahua7028 wow. What amazing stories your grandpa must have
that's a crazy story wow.
Thank you for sharing this. This stuff is definitely not taught in the school books. I never knew about the Marshallese until I briefly moved to NWA. They deserve better. Their territory, reservations like the US gave Native Americans, for destroying their land.
They don’t want it too.
I can feel this woman’s sorrow as she speaks. What happened to these people is so unfair.
We all made sacrifices during WW2. What do you think would have happened to the Marshall Islanders if Japan had won?
@@daybraeburn6172 if Japan would have won, Japan would have taken care of the world instead of destroying it the way Ashkenazi's have. That's what would have happened. But we'll never know.
@@NaomiAnae is antisemitism currently trendy among Blacks? As such, you must identify as a 'Black Israelites' or Lost Tribe or something because your name is a Hebrew name? You should know that true Jewish people have are known to be highly intellectual, and to attempt to steal their true spiritual identity will not be accepted by them or their friends.
@@daybraeburn6172 I am anti Ashkenazi. Goodbye.
She's a real life princess and serving Hr community true royalty!
We in Arkansas will take them! They are really amazing people and love the culture 💜
That's great!! Please take them all. 🙌
Excuse me? Why ? So they can work work in the factory? Those factories kill people. It's not worth it. From the heat,smoke,chemicals, carpol tunnel . People can live better than that. I worked there a long time getting lung infections, carpol tunnel.
@@amysdreamvideos8174 I'm sorry you feel that way 😔. Hope you feel better soon 💗
That's because your ignorance, not your fault but you don't understand. Those are not good jobs. They are crippling jobs run by cruel people. I've watched alot of people become disabled and get hand surgeries because of those factories.
@@LemurianMermaid why you rude to us Marshallese?? What did we do? Your government launches a nuke on us and in change y’all treat us poorly???
As an Arkansasian, I knew that we had many from the Marshall Islands here, but I was told it was because they were in the military, not this.
“Arkanasasian” lol bet you 5 buck you cant pronounce that
I would have just said “arkansian”
@@CorgiCorner meh, I have difficulty spelling it out sometimes and spell check doesn’t help me at times.
Gotta love having a disability right?
@@226amw it actually appears that there is no “correct” way to spell it. Apparently some people say “arkansawyer” and “arkansan”. I actually had to do a bit of research because it just didnt look right to me.
Dyslexia?
@@CorgiCorner :) yup. I hate it lol. But I get what you’re saying, though looking at how I wrote it, it’s like assassin
@@226amw *If you are arkansian how come you couldn’t spell it’s as Zachary described it.*
*You are only trying to get attentions.*
I grew up and still live in Springdale AR. I love having this amazing group of people here!
I agree
They'd probably want to be back home.
@@macewindu9100 I know many are sad about their islands so I'm sure that you are right. But I know many who have built a good life for themselves
@@sethjohnson5568 *Everyone can say they grew up exactly where they are located.*
Send them back to Halawa Oahu
My family were among those many people who protested this from the beginning of testing. We also protested the french bombings in tahiti.
It's sad on so many levels. The people who were tricked into boarding the boat appeared to be in pristine health. However, so many of the people in Arkansas appear to be stressed.
And unfortunately people would get pissed off if they teach this in school because they don't want to face the fact that your country is the most distractive in history.
Yes some idiot will try to call this "critical race theory" and claim that teaching this would be anti-American or anti-white.
So sad I wish they people get justice for their loses.
Now you know they are not getting it. Black folks can't get reparations for the continued genocide of their race! This is the result of a non-melonated society of oppression.
Truth be told, not only Bikini and the three other islands were affected . But nearly all of the islands on the Southern parts of these 4 islands as well (Enewetak, Ronglap, Utrok and Bikini) because the radiation particles were carried by the wind. So there are 2 islands form the Ralik Chain (Islands of the setting Sun) called Jaluit and Namdrik, even though they are not included as "affected islands by radiation" but there were a lot of people from these islands who also suffered from Thyroid cancer and such.
Another fun fact, before the nuclear had taken place all of the fish within each islands' territory were all edible. But now there some fish that are 'poison' (that's what we Islanders call it) and you can not eat them, it depends when you're either within some of the islands in Ratak Chain (Islands of the Rising Sun) or the islands Ralik chain (Islands of the setting sun).
For example:
Majuro _ Ratak chain - You can eat Bluelined Snapper, but you can't eat a certain Species from the Grouper family (the red colored one)
Jaluit_Ralik Chain - You can not eat the Bluelined Snapper but you can eat the red colored Grouper BUT not the purple ones
When you consume the 'poison' fish, you'll be paralyzed not able to move and your whole body will feel like thousands of sharp needles are piercing through you. If you're unlucky for eating a highly poisoned fish or your body is weak to fight the poison, then you might... well 💀. Yeah, don't try to eat these fish.
Sadly, if we catch a new type of fish that we don't really know about we will use animals such as Cats, Pigs, and Dogs as test subjects to see if they get paralyze after consuming the new looking fish. Sad, but it is what it is ☹
Almost sound like ciguatera, which most predator fish have.
I grew up in NWA and I knew this was why there is so many Marshallese in Springdale. They are super nice people.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Thanks for shedding light on the story of nuclear testing in the Bikini Islands. Brings back memories from my political science Pacific Islands course.
Cool at Which uni could you study that?
Where did you study this? I've always been interested in the Pacific Islands
@@cmgs7 try wikipedia
*@Andrew lim first you wrote that you were born in China and came to America in late 2015 how do you know something doesn’t add up?*
In school? It’s really hard to focus when your dream girl sitting next to you, you really never learn anything, youtube? Anytime any where..
Yes, I am from this part of Arkansas and was here when they were "brought" here. Mostly to work in the chicken processing plants. They are beautiful people but got a very bad rap when they first started arriving. No one prepared them to live in the US much less in to live in Arkansas.
This is truly heartbreaking. I had no idea. Thank you all for sharing. May God bless these people and their children’s children and so on so forth forever! America we owe them LAND & RESOURCES!
It's the American way.. God Bless America.. 😁
Thanks for covering this.
Thank you for sharing this information.
Im here in Springdale Ar been here since 2013 and i must say i didnt know the full history on this island yes ive worked with Marshallese some of the coolest and kind peoples ive known or ever met and they love to share turnt me into a giver aswell.. My first encounter with a Marshallese i thought he was Hawaiian because im not from up here im more South East Arkansas and its pretty much black and white with not too many islanders but the ones we do have are Hawaiians which i thought thats what the person was at the time till he met up with another and started talking and i knew nah thats not his ethnicity so i was curious and ask and yeah it lead me to this vid after 5 to 6 months later this video came across as a suggest to watch can u say Chills at a all time high right now..i watched this 1 and the other vid where it was telling us what happened to them 😥
thank youuu for thisss
Criminal it's that simple
Thanks for sharing this story. I never knew these things.
You should at least mention that Springdale was once a sundown town. Good to see them getting redemption.
What town in Arkansas wasn't?
Fayetteville wasn't. African Americans attended the U of A in the late 19th century.
@@bundangbear 🤦🏼♀️
@@tcoker0416 wtf? I've got over 10k subs. Wanna shit?
Thanks for the informational video about my country...much respect
I’m from NWA, about 40 miles from Springdale and I’m horrified to realize I had no idea about this. Ironically, I was filling out some paperwork just last night and the languages question had three options, English..Spanish and Marshallese. I had no idea what that was and had never seen it on anything before. Then I saw this video in my recommended today. I hope you guys feel loved and welcomed here in Arkansas. I’m sorry for what they did to your homeland. I don’t understand why we didn’t at least compensate y’all for your sacrifice but now we are throwing money and resources at people who were displaced at no fault of ours or throwing tons of money at people who never have enough retribution for the sins of not only our fathers but also theirs.
Thank you sir! We Marshallese don’t talk about the bomb but just mind our lives, praising our god! And doing cultural stuff
It’s so wrong and although we are able to come to the U.S and work.. we still don’t get to have automatic citizenship which makes no sense. I absolutely despise this country and the deceit that comes with it. Deep condolences to my ancestors and all they had to go through 😣
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How does it not make sense? The Islands are independent now and aren't a territory of the U.S.
The Treaty allows citizens to work in the U.S. it doesn't include them getting American citizenship unless something changes in the future.
@@erickr.8977 how not? Did you watch it at all? The US basically stole Bikini Atoll from them. I would advise you to do some research on the matter, before saying something as ignorant as that.
My Life, the US did not steal it. Some of the Marshallese in high places allowed it to happen. They got very rich off of this betrayal of their own people.
This is some great content right here
I love learning things like this, I feel for them.
Our Government will pay for their actions. This is very sad to watch. I had no idea of this. Thank you for sharing. 💔
I live in Springdale Arkansas and I live in a community where Marshallese live. They are very friendly and they don’t bother you at all! They get a lot of help from the US government and rightly so because they will be “sickly” for generations and generations…..
Wow thanks for this information
It was love at first sight for me when i set foot at Majuro. Being a UN intrenational professional in Marshall Islands, the warmth, generosity and friendiliness of Marshallase is infectious.
This country, despite the nuclear debacle, is still nature's gift to mankind.
I think the Americans read the lips of God when he says, "I want to create a paradise in the middle of the Pacific for the good of Mankind, and it shall be called Marshall Islands".
Diamonds, just like the majestic atolls,are forever.
Shame on the war mongers
We’re Americans we have no shame.
@@zeitgeistx5239 Tell that to GOD ...USA sucks.. Blood thirsty nation
nice documentary 👍🏼
I’m from Guam, great video but you forgot to mention Palau, Micronesia as part of compact association. People from these countries also move to Guam since it’s closer to their home and the culture is similar like Hawaii. Spam and rice unites the islanders!
Spam and rice is also what's killing us. Nothing to glamorize about that poison.
Well chicken and rice is actually the most famous food in the Marshall Islands if I am correct. And yes, we do know that it is unhealthy but it’s so yummy!!!!
This is my first time hearing about this story, I'm 49 years old.
Wow…
Wow......great story🔥💯🔥
Born and raised in northwest Arkansas near springdale. These people are well known like the local Cherokee and the trail of tears. And the bombing was taught in grade school in the 1990's.
i'd heard about Bikini Atoll but I always assumed they were uninhabited. this is unacceptable.
I thought they said that the Bikini Atoll was uninhabited.
Yea it is still uninhabited FOREVER!!
These are great and humble people whose struggle is a moral and timely lesson about the horrible damage inflicted by nuclear arms. Nuclear Displacement may become more common if the major world powers do not find ways to co-exist.
We have a big presence of Marshallese in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well
I am the first Persian American to Move to the Marshall Islands in 1982 one of the Teachers also thought in the college of Micronesia Cookery 1 and 2. Married and the first breed of Marshallese and Persian are my Four children, who are grown up in Hawaii and Arkansas. We are truly one human Family we can all help each other to progress in life. Much love Yakwe and Aloha.
*Proof?*
@@ShizukaOG what Proof
@@heshcri *Have you documents about you moved to Marshall Islands in 1982?*
*Remember everyone say everything someone your comments doesn’t add up.*
@@ShizukaOG what difference that makes I am not the president yet. The proof is in the pudding
@@ShizukaOG 全世界の人間性が一つになったとき、あなたが望む証拠は何ですか
First time I've heard this story...makes me sad.
As an American I would like the say America is the worst. Smh
More you go deeper more you will hate those in power in USA
As a Marshallese I would like to say America is a great country BUT the leaders..... well I won't say anything 😅
Lol you should see what Stalin did with Chechens and Georgians he also moved them to Kazakhstan
Not the best country to live but overall it’s a good place, although the government and system here however…
They say America is the strongest/most free country. But it had to step on many to get where it is.
I currently work and live here. it is wild this came up now! it is sad that America has done this as the marshallese people are wonderful people and they are extremely hard working. I hope one day they are treated better.
Bikini "Bikini Bottom" is where the nuke was tested which will explain why a sponge started wearing pants
And this is yet another example of history that was left out of our history books in school. This is so sad! I feel sorry for them. When will God come fix it all?
They can't put everything in schoolbooks. Go read a book. There are many libraries
If God is real, he sure is a destructive one.
@@ertfgghhhh Or they leave it out on purpose.
@@johnnyearp52 true. But they still can't put everything in the book. Everybody is complaining about every little thing not in the textbooks ....
Go read like I did. You would find the info. But that is too much like taking the initiative.
@@ertfgghhhh I have known about the nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll and the fall out making the Marshall Islanders sick since the 1990's. I didn't learn it in school. I never knew that they evacuated people from the Bikini Atoll until now. I do think that this is important to teach in schools. I was taught some untruthful things that this could have been replaced with.
Also I read quite a bit. As far as general US history I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and "The Whitewashing of American History". Those helped round out my public school education along with a great number of other more specific books on various events in the history of the USA.
It is disgraceful the way the Marshallese have been treated.
Island home to mountain home. I hope they have their island home to return to someday.
I am glad to name NWA home, at the same time, glad that over the years, my business has open the doors to many event (Church services, Kemem etc). I have over the years establish a friendship and earned much respect from this community. I have meet many great Marshall Islanders that I consider great friends. All my blessings and best wishes friends!
I support our us military however doing what was done bikini atol was pure wrong. Yes I'll get attacked for this. But nuking an island nation over and over just to see how much environmental and radiation damage you can do... smh...
Wow i never knew this about the marshall island
To be honest, I’m not surprised when it comes to this country. I never knew this about the Island’s.
Growing hemp on the island may help pull the radioactive material out. 🙏🏽 I hope the powers at be look into the solutions nature provides. Also there are kinds of mushrooms that can do clean up as well.
Maybe, I was thinking along the same🤔❗
Awesome! Do you know which mushroom?
We must be on to something. Just need the governments to know how to implement the plan! Hemp heals ❤️🙏🏽❤️
They would have to grow hemp and mushrooms in the ocean then. Thats where contamination is.
The US should give the Marshallese their own land. They deserved it. US should do the right thing.
Surprised she didn’t pick Hawaii however there is a lot of discrimination towards Micronesians in Hawaii but not sure if Arkansas is a good choice either!
Lol honestly yeah there's a lot of discrimination against us there, so sad cuz it's always based on the actions of the few people who are trouble (which is probably why they left home in the first place 😂) that create the stereotype for all of us
Hawaii is mad expensive to live in.
We have a lot of Marshall Islanders who live in Australia too. I’m from Australia but when I lived in Hawaii I was shocked at the racial discrimination the Marshall Islanders faced there.
@@MelaniaRose yes they get stereotyped a lot for working minimum wage jobs like McDonalds and have a gold tooth and live in project housing. Thing is any race can fall in this category and it’s unfortunate the Micronesian population here are the ones to be ridiculed for it probably because they had nothing to start with when they left home unlike the other ethnicities who rely on generational wealth to make a living out here! I’m sure Australia is a better place to live for anyone compared to Hawaii.
@@jon6309Marshyallese don't have gold tooth, lol. Did your grandparent taught you that? You only see those mostly with other group of micronesian people. Get the story straight and go wash your mouth, hahahaha
When I worked at a grocery store in north east Arkansas (Paragould) I’d say a good 10% of the customers were of this ethnicity
From tropical paradise to Arkansas, damn
Yep damn.. 🤦🏻♂️
Send them to an island
I'd say that Godzilla is more of a commentary on US imperialism, and the fact that Japan used to be wery of nuclear bombs and is now very well established within the US sphere of influence is really scary.
Thought the same thing too, but then it relates in a way (i guess) cuz of the fact that the Marshall islands were colonized by Japan for nearly 30 years, kinda of a stretch but I think that's what they were implying
I live amongst the Marshallese here in Hawaii. There are tons of them here and they are a Holy people. Descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
They are polynesian not part of no 12 tribes
Sending all the universe's love to my fellow pacific people.
I'm from South pacific and this is heart breaking. We pacific islanders are the world's minority 😭❤
Royal princess had me flabbergasted!
Springdale Arkansas is beautiful place to stay..One of the best places in Arkansas
I think not enough Marshall Islands are like Hawaii
I had never heard of them until about 3yrs ago when i was living in Fayetteville
You are welcome here!🙋🏻♀️❤️🩹🌹
Hey I know a lot of them..I live in the state. I just now found this
The Pacific Islanders were one of the first culture/ethic group that Europeans and Western society culture appreciated their boats... they stole how they make their canoes
not too many us citizens dont know that the Marshallese lost their homelands due to the atomic bomb testing....
😔😔😔 so messed up!!
Their story is similar to the Chagos Island,... 😟.... The British did the same thing....
Fascinating video but you didn't answer the question in the title. Why does Spongebob live in Bikini Bottom?
Because he only wears a bikini bottom
Because it’s a contaminated sponge haha
Because the radioactive chemicals made made SpongeBob
I hope they are able to be compensated and are given the same rights as Native Americans. We have to own up to our violent and selfish past.
wow i never heard this in my life.
Despite the fact that the U.S Government did all the Nuclear Testings "for the good of all Mankind", we are still facing alot of issues towards going back to islands that are contaminated from the fallouts and yet nothing is being done about it. Our first Compact we received little or nothing compared to the damages, the second compact was a copy of the first with twists. Now the third is on its way and still, I feel that we are being robbed!
Interesting 🤔 I wish you all peace ✌️🇺🇲
Just Not in Arkansas
Come to Florida and buy an island
There's Marshallese there in Merit Island, Leesburg, and St. Pete
This is a shame on the US Military. I live near Springdale AR. I never knew this. So sad.
If you are American words are not enough 👎🏽
@@miguelitoreyes3047 I am not responsible for what they did. I wasn't even born yet. But that DON'T make it right. And all I can say is what I did.
@@vetetocm I delete my apology on you because you don’t deserve an apology maybe
@@miguelitoreyes3047 well it was really rude. You were a jerk.
Wow I live in Arkansas and never knew
What a true crime to beautiful people and location
How horrible how terrifying
Just one more atrocity that America won't be adding to its public education resources for children to learn. Americans have so much to answer for.
many in dequeen Arkansas as well !!
I didn't until I saw this video and I live in Arkansas I have my whole life
I live in Bentonville Arkansas this is crazy to me