Funds for the cause were solicited by the reigning sovereigns in person, and the hospital building was completed in 1860. Very near to its site, on Sept. 2, 1838, I was born.
If anyone native to the 'western world' were to read this sentence out of context their first thought would be to assume that it is about the English Royal family; however, the sentence is referring to the monarchs of Hawaii. The language of the sentence shows that an "new world" to the United States or to England may be as developed and sophisticated as they are but because they country has a different religion or culture it is automatically considered to be uncivilized by western society or "the white men".
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