In the Hawaiian language, hapa is strictly defined as: portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. It is a loan from the English word half. However, it has an extended meaning of "half-caste" or "of mixed descent". This is the only meaning of the term in Hawaiian Pidgin, the creole spoken by many Hawai'i residents. Used without qualification, hapa is often taken to mean "part white", and is short hand for hapa haole. The term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture. Examples of this include: · hapa haole (part Caucasian/white) · hapa kanaka (part Hawaiian) · hapa popolo (part African/black) · hapa kepani (part Japanese); the term hapanese is also encountered · hapa pilipino (part Filipino) · hapa pake

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