Interesting point that you bring up. If Hawaii had been annexed by any other than a white and Christian country, I suspect the indigenous population would have been killed off or resettled to accommodate the newcomers. It's unique location makes Hawaii a very strategic military asset and there are no shortage of countries that have coveted in the past and still do currently.    If the Japanese had claimed Hawaii (as they did the Ryukyu islands) I doubt there would be a single Polynesian left in the islands. If the Chinese had taken it? I'm pretty sure that they would have completely subjugated the Hawaiian peoples and killed them off.    The native Hawaiians don't know how good they have it. They only need look at Tibet to see what would be waiting for them if they pulled this stunt under Chinese rule. I suspect that there's another, more well-organized race stoking the flames behind the scenes here.