Ethnic breakdown of Hawaii’s population (2000)

Subject/Number/ %

RACE

One race / 952,194 / 78.6

White / 294,102 / 24.3

Black or African American 22,003 / 1.8

American Indian and Alaska Native / 3,535 / 0.3

Asian / 503,868 / 41.6

Asian Indian / 1,441 / 0.1

Chinese / 56,600 / 4.7

Filipino / 170,635 / 14.1

Japanese / 201,764 / 16.7

Korean / 23,537 / 1.9

Vietnamese / 7,867 / 0.6

Other Asian / 42,024 / 3.5

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander / 113,539 / 9.4

Native Hawaiian / 80,137 / 6.6

Guamanian or Chamorro / 1,663 / 0.1

Samoan / 16,166 / 1.3

Other Pacific Islander / 15,573 / 1.3

Some other race / 15,147 / 1.3

Two or more races / 259,343 / 21.4

Source: http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/hi.html

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Interesting Wikipedia Articles About Hawaii Immigration

1. Korean Immigration to Hawaii

Two distinct waves of Korean immigration to Hawaii have occurred in the last century. The first cohort arrived in Hawaii between 1903 and 1924; the second wave began in 1965. Link

2. Chinese Immigration to Hawaii

The Chinese in Hawaiʻi constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) have ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. This number does not include people of mixed Chinese and Hawaiian descent. If all people with Chinese ancestry in Hawaiʻi (including the Chinese-Hawaiians) are included, they form about 1/3 of Hawaii's entire population. Link

3. Japanese Immigration to Hawaii

The Japanese in Hawaii are one of the major and most influential ethnic groups in Hawaii. At their height in 1920, they constituted 43% of Hawaii's population. Link

4. Puerto Rican Immigration to Hawaii

Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a world wide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Hawaiian sugar plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers in Puerto Rico. Link

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