All these things remain just as true today. after 10 years of statehood. as they were. in the time of Captain Cook. and. even taken by themselves. they make Hawaii one of the most precious parts of American soil. Yet. today. Hawaii as the 50th State of the Union has become far greater and more important than the visitors. missionaries. and immigrants of the last century could have envisioned. Starting in 1820 New England missionaries came. and during the 19th century thousands of workers and immigrants arrived from Europe. Likewise from Asia hundreds of thousands of contract laborers were imported by the sugar plantations. From all this has grown one of the social phenomena of the 20th century. an almost totally harmonious community of many different races. Today the eight main islands. whose total area is about that of Connecticut. have a population nearing 800.000 whose ancestors may have been Japanese.
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