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Someone of multiracial ancestry
- Hapa (/ ˈhɑːpə /) is a Hawaiian word for someone of multiracial ancestry.
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Hapa (/ ˈ h ɑː p ə / [1]) is a Hawaiian word for someone of multiracial ancestry. In Hawaii, the word refers to any person of mixed ethnic heritage, regardless of the specific mixture. [2] [3] The term is used for any multiracial person of partial East Asian, Southeast Asian, or Pacific Islander mixture in California.
Dec 15, 2014 · Hapa is a Hawaiian pidgin word used to describe mixed-race people — primarily, though not exclusively, those who are half white and half Asian.
- Alex Laughlin
Aug 8, 2016 · Many young mixed-raced Asian-Americans embrace the Hawaiian word "hapa" to describe their identity. But are they legitimizing a slur, engaging in appropriation, or just making an old word new?
- Akemi Johnson
- What (and Who) Is hapa?
- Accidental(?) Appropriation
- The Value of A Word
Both Wikipedia and Dictionary.com loosely define a “hapa” person as someone who is mixed with some sort of Asian heritage. In my experience as a born-and-raised Californian, most people have approached the word with this definition, too. Not everymixed Asian used this term, but the ones that did claimed it quite casually. However, the origins of ha...
Hapa first started to gain widespread usage by mainland mixed-Asians in the ’90s, when collegiate student groups (most notably U.C. Berkeley’s Hapa Issues Forum) began use the term as a major identifier. Mixed-Asians hadn’t heard the term before, yet it became something of a call home—a word they thought was “just for them,” finally providing them ...
“Hapa” is rooted in Hawaiian culture and history. It is a part of the heritage of thousands of Hawaiian people, and it will always mean more to them than it will to anyone else. And while some Hawaiians might not have problems with mainlanders using the term (as Johnson noted), ultimately the usage of the term by mainlanders is still appropriation,...
The Hawaiian definition of ‘anyone mixed race can be hapa’ is just a Hawaii thing and not a mainstream Hapa thing. This not only include biracial people, but people that are a quarter asian or white.
Aug 8, 2016 · Many young mixed-raced Asian-Americans embrace the Hawaiian word "hapa" to describe their identity. But are they legitimizing a slur, engaging in appropriation, or just making an old word new?
Apr 4, 2019 · While being hapa is generally considered desirable in Hawaii, it seems that in all the bickering and racial philosophies rearing their heads in politics and academia, hapa people have been both...
