Hapa
Hawaiian term for mixed ethnicity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a term for a person of mixed ethnic heritage. For the psychological theory of health behavior change, see Health action process approach.
Hapa (/ˈhɑːpə/[1]) is a Hawaiian word for someone of multiracial ancestry. In Hawaii, the word refers to any person of mixed ethnic heritage, regardless of the specific mixture.[2][3] The term is used for any multiracial person of partial East Asian, Southeast Asian, or Pacific Islander mixture in California.[1][4][5][6][7] In what can be characterized as trans-cultural diffusion or the wave model, this latter usage has also spread to Massachusetts,[8] Ohio,[9] and Oregon.[10]
Both uses are concurrent.[11][12][13][14][15][16][lower-alpha 1]