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Pidgin is a creole that developed during the plantation era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mixing words and diction from the various ethnic groups living in Hawaii then. [24] ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi later became an official language of the State of Hawaii, alongside English. The state enacted a program of cultural preservation ...
Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831–1884), aliʻi (nobility) of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii and a well known philanthropist; John Papa ʻĪʻī (1800–1870), ali'i (nobility), 19th-century educator, politician and historian in the Kingdom of Hawaii; King Kalākaua (1836–1891), known as The Merrie Monarch, last king of Hawaiʻi
Category: Hawaii people by ethnicity. ... Hawaii people of Korean descent (12 P) N. Native Hawaiian people (15 C, 106 P) P. Hawaii people of Portuguese descent (16 P)
History of Hawaii by ethnic group (2 C) A. African Americans in Hawaii (1 C) Asian-American culture in Hawaii (9 C, 5 P) E. European American culture in Hawaii (3 C ...
Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.5% of the US population including those with partial Pacific Islander ancestry, enumerating about 1.4 million people. The largest ethnic subgroups of Pacific Islander Americans are Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chamorros. Much of the Pacific Islander population resides in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Utah ...
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
When tourists mispronounce Hawaiian words, it's often an innocent mistake. I've noticed non-Hawaiian speakers commonly mispronounce mahalo ("thank you" in Hawaiian) as "ma-halo" instead of "ma-HAH ...
People of Filipino descent make up a large and growing part of the State of Hawaii's population. In 2000 they were the third largest ethnic group and represented 22.8% of the population, [3] but more recently, according to the 2010 United States Census data indicates they have become the second largest ethnicity in Hawaii (25.1% in 2010), after Whites.