I've been thinking a little about this, and when has America gone into other countries and tried to "colonize?" We haven't. We have never done that.
Ask the Philippines about that. Ask Hawaìi. And Puerto Rico. Usually we're more subtle though.
We didn't "colonize" in those places. The Brits did.
The
history of Hawaii includes both natural and human history. After the creation of the islands by volcanic forces, the islands began developing their flora and fauna. Sometime around 1 AD, the earliest
Polynesian settlers began to populate the islands. Around 1200 AD
Tahitian explorers found and began settling the area as well. This became the rise of the Hawaiian civilization and would be separated from the rest of the world for another 500 years until the arrival of the British.
Ooooh yes we did.
>> The
Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 between the Kingdom of Hawaii (explicitly acknowledged as a sovereign nation) and the United States allowed for duty-free importation of Hawaiian
sugar into the United States beginning in 1876. This further promoted plantation agriculture, which was in the hands of foreign Whites. Hawai'i ceded
Pearl Harbor, including
Ford Island (
Hawaiian:
Mokuʻumeʻume), together with its shoreline and four to five miles of land adjacent to the shore, free of cost to the U.S.
[7] The U. S. demanded this area based on an 1873 report commissioned by the U. S.
Secretary of War. Native Hawaiians protested the treaty on the streets until the revolt was suffocated by U.S. marines.
[2]
.... In the late 19th century the dominant White minority overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom and founded a brief Republic that was finally annexed by the United States. << --
History of Hawaìi
Engineering coups d'état has been a major US export. I'm running short on time but check out the origin of Panama, which until we got there was part of Colombia. And of course the Shah in Iran. Matter of fact, just follow the Dulles Brothers around the globe. And Woodrow Wilson.
Fun fact: what's the only country in the world besides the US that has a pledge of allegiance?
A -- the Philippines. Why do you think that is?
(/somewhat offtopic)