Euronesian Explained

Group:Euronesian
Native Name:Samoan: 'Afakasi[1]
Population:258,600[2]
Popplace:United States 125,628

French Polynesia 45,000

New Caledonia 25,000

Samoa 18,000

Solomon Islands 18,000

Fiji 16,000

Papua New Guinea 5,100

American Samoa 4,700

Tonga 2,000

Kiribati 1,100

Cook Islands 1,000

Easter Island c. 1,000

Norfolk Island 80

Pitcairn Islands c. 47

Unknown populations in Australia and New Zealand.

Rels:Predominantly (Christianity)Protestantism and Roman Catholicism

Minority :Indigenous religion, Animism, Islam, some Atheism

Langs:Polynesian languages
Melanesian languages
Micronesian languages
English, French, Spanish
Related:Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Vazaha, Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, English people, French people, other various European ethnic groups

Euronesian is an umbrella term and portmanteau for people of mixed European and either Polynesian,[3] Melanesian or Micronesian descent.[4] The term is most commonly used in Samoa. British or French colonizers, missionaries and traders, as well as some descendants of Spaniards and Polynesians in Easter Island (where Chilean law names them mestizos), and descendants of Spaniards and Micronesians in Guam, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau.[5] ʻAfakasi is the common term of reference for euronesians in Samoa;in Fiji, the term Kailoma is usually used.[6]

Distinct Euronesian groups include the Hawaiian Hapa haole, Tahitian demis, Ōbeikei Islanders, Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, and Palmerston Islanders.

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References

  1. Web site: Olaf Nelson and the place of afakasi in Samoa . nzhistory.govt.nz . 16 August 2021 . en . One of the Samoan terms for the islands' part-European population is 'afakasi. This term does not necessarily have the same negative connotations as its English translation 'half-caste'..
  2. Bridging 1990 and 2000 census race data: Fractional assignment of multiracial populations. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-11-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081002234040/http://www.csupomona.edu/~mreibel/2000_Census_Files/Allen-Turner.doc . 2008-10-02 .
  3. Web site: "EURONESIAN", The Need For A New Word. 15 June 2021. Book: Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's who . 84 . 1971.
  4. There is no scientific element about this ancient classification into both terms, https://journals.openedition.org/gc/1701, and "Oceanians" would be better.
  5. Web site: Censo 2002 . Ine.cl . 23 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120621012515/http://www.ine.cl/cd2002/index.php . 21 June 2012 . live.
  6. Web site: Kailomas In Fiji . 2023-06-18 . fijilandofourfathers.com.