Today. more than 630.000 civilians. augmented by nearly 60.000 military personnel call Hawaii home. Actually. Hawaii is a community composed of immigrants. Even the socalled native Hawaiians are descendants of adventurous Polynesians. those skillful mariners who. it is believed. sailed the vast Pacific from Mayalsia in single and double canoes. Centuries later explorers and sailors from the chief maritime powers of the world made Hawaii a port of call. and successive waves of immigrants flooded Hawaiis shores. So that today. some 202.000 persons. or 32 percent. are of Caucasian ancestry. 203.000. or 32.2 percent. of Japanese ancestry. 69.000. or 10.9 percent. of Filipino ancestry. 38.000. or 6 percent. of Chinese ancestry. and some 119.000. or 18.9 percent. of all other ancestries. according to the U.S. census of 1960. Included in the category of "all other" are 9.000 fullblooded Hawaiians and more than 100.000 part Hawaiians.
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