The people of Hawaii are world-famous for their spirit of aloha. This attitude of acceptance is characterized by warmth, generosity, humility, and patience.
The secret to Hawaiian harmony may lie in the fact that Hawaii is one of the few places in the US, and perhaps the world, where there is no racial or ethnic majority. The state population of 1.29 million (2006) is 25% white (haole), 10% Hawaiian, 40% Asian, 2% black, and 22% multiracial. This racial mixing is due to a complex history of immigration. The largest single group of immigrants, about a third, is thought to have come from southern Japan and Okinawa. When sugar was king, others migrated from the Philippines and southern China as well as from Europe and the US mainland. Though pure Polynesian Hawaiians have dwindled in number (fewer than 10,000), about one fifth of the population of Hawaii has native Hawaiian blood. The fact that about 40% of marriages on Hawaii are interracial contributes to this continuity. Hawaiians also have the longest average lifespan residents of any US state: 79.8 years.
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