Why did we treat Hawaii different than The Phillipines?
Last I checked the Phillipines are still a US ally.
“Last I checked the Phillipines are still a US ally.”
Well, yes, semi-sort of.
The Phillipines have a naturallly strong sense of nationalism and with it some antagonism toward the United States, due to the long and blood war it took to subdue the Phillipines after the Spanish were thrown out. The war was not against loyalists to Spain but organized Filipinos who had hoped to make an independent democratic republic after the Spanish were gone. The U.S. could have assisted in that instead of desiring to make the Philippines a subdued colony, and the residual antagonism of some to the United States would likely not exist today, as Filiponos generally love everything else about the U.S. Filipino Americans make up the 2nd largest demographic group among Asian-Americans, constituting about 20% of all Asian-Americans - exceeded only by Chinese-Americans.
How long ago did you check?
Last I checked the Philippines are still a US ally.
Legally, under the insular cases, the Philippines were an unincorporated possession, owned by the United States, but not part of the US. It’s people were nationals of the US, but not citizens.
Hawaii was annexed by the US under the Newlands Resolution at the request of the government of the Republic of Hawaii. From annexation, Hawaii has been an incorporated, organized territory of the United States, and its people were American citizens. It was treated no differently than Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or the Indian Territory.
Hawaii had as much chance of choosing independence as Oklahoma did. The people pushing it today are a radical and delusional fringe group.