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Melanesia is the great arc of islands located north and east of Australia and south of the Equator. The name derives the Greek words melas ('black') and nēsos ('island') for the predominantly dark-skinned peoples of New Guinea island, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Ethnic groups in the Solomon Islands (1 C, 4 P) Ethnic groups in the Spanish Virgin Islands (1 C, 1 P) Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka (16 C, 9 P)
Although the exact timing of when each island group was settled is debated, it is widely accepted that the island groups in the geographic center of the region (i.e. the Cook Islands, Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, etc.) were settled initially between 1000 and 1150 AD, [33] [34] and ending with more far flung island groups such as Hawaii ...
The city is sometimes called the "Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands of Hawaii. [28] [29] [30] A Samoan American is an American who is of ethnic Samoan descent from either the independent nation Samoa or the American territory of American Samoa. Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American.
This is a list of ethnic enclaves in various countries of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the native population. An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may ...
In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity. [2] The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms. [ 3 ]
A staple food of the Marshallese culture is rice. The intake of rice was most likely influenced by the Korean. The Marshallese eat meats like pork, fish, shellfish, chicken. Considering that it is an island there is no beef unless shipped frozen. With the many coconut trees on the island, coconuts would be a staple food as well.
Their usual ethnic name derives from the Chinese name for the islands, Liuqiu (also spelled as Loo Choo, Lew Chew, Luchu, and more), [5] which in the Japanese language is pronounced Ryūkyū. In the Okinawan language, it is pronounced Rūchū. In their indigenous language they often call themselves and their identity as Uchinānchu.