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Haole (/ ˈ h aʊ l iː /; Hawaiian: [ˈhɐo̯.le]) [1] is a Hawaiian term for individuals who are not Native Hawaiian, and is applied to people primarily of European ancestry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Background
In his 2009 book, lawyer and former Hawaiʻi governor Ben Cayetano wrote that "Kill Haole Day" began as a news story headline about an incident between haole and local (not just Hawaiian) students. After that, "whenever there was a fight or an incident between haole and non-haole students, the news media", and newspaper editorial boards ...
[2] [3] An example of this is hapa haole (part European/White). [18] [19] Pukui states that the original meaning of the word haole was "foreigner." Therefore, all non-Hawaiians can be called haole. [20] In practical terms, however, the term is used as a racial description for whites, with the specific exclusion of Portuguese.
Including people with two or more races, the number of people with some European ancestry is 476,162 (39.3%), meaning that around 14.6% of the population is mixed race. [5] European ancestry, the majority are of Portuguese and British descent, with a small number of European immigrants of French, German, and Spanish descent.
The impact of tiki culture on music (and vice versa) had beginnings in the creation of "hapa-haole" music, with "haole" meaning "foreigner" in the context, derived from America's expectation of native Hawaiian (and other Oceanic regions) folk music. As is the case with much of tiki culture, its genres can fall into varying themes.
"My Little Grass Shack" is a hapa haole song, "a hybrid genre that mixed American jazz and dance rhythms (swing and foxtrot), Hawaiian instrumentation (such as the steel guitar and ukulele), and lyrics in both English and Hawaiian" [12] (hapa haole means "half foreign" and is also used in a literal sense to mean "multiracial").
Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) [1] [4] and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia.
just because that article is an accepted source, doesn't mean it should be sourced-- just because something is used as a source doesn't mean that all of its content is somehow incorporated or endorsed in the wikipedia article. Right now, the SPLC article is only used to source the idea that the word "haole" has been used as part of a pejorative ...