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For example, hapalua is half, hapahā is one-fourth, and hapanui means majority. [2] [3] In Hawaii, the term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture. [2] [3] An example of this is hapa haole (part European/White). [18] [19]
The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...
white/black at 737,492, white/Asian at 727,197, and; white/Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander at 125,628. [25] In 2010, 1.6 million Americans checked both "black" and "white" on their census forms, a figure 134% higher than the number a decade earlier. [26]
An assessment of racism in Trinidad notes people often being described by their skin tone, with the gradations being "HIGH RED – part White, part Black but 'clearer' than Brown-skin: HIGH BROWN – More white than Black, light skinned: DOUGLA – part Indian and part Black: LIGHT SKINNED, or CLEAR SKINNED Some Black, but more White: TRINI ...
Hāfu (ハーフ, "half") describes an individual who is either the child of one Japanese and one non-Japanese parent or, less commonly, two half Japanese parents. Because the term is specific to individuals of ethnic Japanese ancestry, individuals whose Japanese ancestry is not of ethnic Japanese origin, such as Zainichi Koreans (e.g. Crystal Kay Williams and Kiko Mizuhara) will not be listed.
According to Ana Rosa Alvarado, a dermatologist who works for the IMSS Jalisco division, around half of the babies born have the Mongolian spot. [86] According to the 2010 US Census, 52.8% of Mexican Americans (approximately 16,794,111 people) self-identified as being White. [87]
Quiana and Luna at 1 month old. My husband is white and I am Black. When we learned we were having a daughter, we quickly set goals for how we would raise her: She should be strong and happy.
The most well-regarded theory is that present-day Yamato Japanese are descendants of both the Indigenous Jōmon people and the immigrant Yayoi people. [13] The Yayoi were an admixture (1,000 BCE–300 CE) of migrants from East Asia , mostly China and the Korean peninsula .