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Every time I hear that someone is Hawaiian, they are not Hawaiian by race, just by state. All of the ‘Hawaiians’ I run into are actually Asian. So how many Hawaiians are really racially native Hawaiians?
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Name : Pena19830, City : Herndon, State : VA, Country : United States,I have lived in Hawaii for 3 years. There are many native Hawaiians here – a lot are just mixed with Filipino, Japanese or Haole (Caucasian). This mixture is also called Hapa. Many Asian immigrants came to Hawaii to work the pineapple fields, etc. Also, don’t forget the large amount of millitary families who just decided to stay in the great climate after service. There are still many un-mixed native Hawaiians on the outer islands in the Hawaiian chain, such as Maui, Big Island, Kauai and Molokai. The island of Oahu, which holds the capital city, has the most transplants from the mainland and other countries.
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Name : Jeanine Flynn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : African american/Native american Cherokee, Religion : Catholic, Age : 32, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : surgical first assistant, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper class,I have lived here two years. From what I’ve observed and have learned, there are many native Hawaiians here. More so on outer islands than Oahu (the prime tourist location). The Hawaiian population at one time was almost decimated by European diseases. Aparrently, the native Hawaiian pop. is back on the rise. However, there is much mixing of races here, and it seems almost everybody is mixed with something else. Asians are indeed the biggest population, because of the labor migrations here to work in sugar/pineapple plantations from the early 1900’s.
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Name : Jill30677, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,it depends on what you mean by native. the first people in hawaii probably came from east asia or south east asia anywhere from 2000 B.C.E to 1000 A.D. if these people are what you mean by native or indigenous than yes there probably are a few although some of them may be mixed racially with Japanese that came between 1600 and the present and Americans that came to Hawaii since the 1840’s and escpecially since US annexation of Hawaii in 1898.
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Name : doug galecawitz, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 25, City : Lisle, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Lower class,Interestingly, Hawaiian is a term used to describe a race and as a term used to describe an ethnicity, which are distinctly different. I’ll relate this to our recent 2000 Census, which they only identify Hawaiian as race, but others who live in Hawaii would also use the term to mean an ethnicity. FYI, I’ve worked at the Census for several years in their Race Branch and was raised in Hawaii. Anyway, as in the term Hispanic, which is used to describe an ethnicity, which could relate to anyone’s race (White, Black, Asian, etc.) who was born and raised in a ‘Hispanic’ country. An example might be Cuban, many of which are Black, but are not African American, but would be identified as Hispanic Black. Or Filipino, some might have chosen Hispanic Asian if they identify with their Hispanic side. Anyway, if you are Asian or whatever race and were born and raised in Hawaii, you might consider yourself Hawaiian in an ethnic way. Therefore, you don’t have Hawaiian blood or are not of that race, but ethnically, you might identify yourself as Hawaiian since you identify with their ‘culture.’ However, don’t get me wrong, many of Asians who say they are Hawaiian might also be of mixed Hawaiian ancestry in which their race is both Hawaiian and Asian. It’s very hard to tell since Hawaiians and Asians share many similar features. Not until the Census 2000 were they finally differentiated into separate races.
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Name : Wayne, Gender : M, Race : Asian, Age : 33, City : Hacienda Heights, State : CA, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,The hawaiian people are slowly becoming extinct. In a census I read in the late 70’s, only 10% of the population was actually Hawaiian native. As the asian population is over 80% (back then) born and raised they claim to be ‘hawaiian’ as they are usually inter-mixed, and have lived there several generations. Hawaiian/chinese or hawaiian/japanese being the most populus. Caucasions do not have this ‘right’ they are known subjectivly as ‘kamaaina’ usually stamped after 15+ years of living in the culture, or having been born there. There is one island Niihau, off of Oahu that is absolutley hawaiian, the island is owned by the Dole family. It is strictly hawaiian.
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Name : The-V, City : Portland, State : OR, Country : United States,How many ‘Hawaiians’ are really racially Native Hawaiians? That is actually a hard question to figure; considering that there are hardly any pure Native Hawaiians anymore and that many of them are mixed. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, about 23.3% of people who live in Hawaii have Native Hawaiian blood. So, that makes about 282,667 Native Hawaiians living in Hawaii of a population of 1.1 million.
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Name : Daisy28642, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Asian, Religion : Christian, Age : 19, City : Honolulu, State : HI, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Hawaii used to be its own country. And the people there would be considered asian due to them being closer to that region. So you can really say you are Hawaiian just because you were born in that state, but you aren’t truly Hawaiian unless you are related to the REAL natives…
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Name : Mike, City : Pensacola, State : FL, Country : United States,I lived on the big island for about a year and there was no majority race but the biggest minority was Japanese. There was also a lot of white people and other kinds of Asians. I would say that maybe 10% of the population was Native Hawaiian.
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Name : DanielPfalmer, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 22, City : Fairbanks, State : AK, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,
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