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Transcript: M. Kauila Clark

Alcoholism is the result of colonization and a sense of victimization among Native Hawaiians

[Clark:]
Alcoholism is a big problem. A lot of it is due to the residuals of colonization, and what I call victimization, where Hawaiians take on this attitude of being a victim, and when they do they have this attitude that somebody has to take care of them because things have been taken away from them like loss of language, culture, and those things, and a lot of what we deal with is understanding cultural identity because in that victimization they’ve given up their cultural identify.
[Lindberg:]
It’s a totally self-defeating attitude.
[Clark:]
Yes. Yes.