Today. although ethnically Hawaii is composed of many nationalities. Hawaii is a showplace of racial harmony. The early settlers were the Polynesians. Caucasian sailors. adventurers. whalers. traders. and missionaries were secondcomers. Then followed Chinese contract laborers recruited to work the sugar plantations as the Hawaiians were not Inclined to hard labor. With the annexation of the Islands to the United States in 1898. Chinese labor immigration was completely prohibited as the laws. which were then in force excluding Chinese laborers to the United States. were made applicable to Hawaii. Japanese contract laborers in great numbers were also imported from 1885 until their exclusion In 1924. Portuguese. Swedes.
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Hawaiians were not inclined to hard labor.