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What does hapa mean?

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Noun
  1. (Hawaii, California) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half Asian/Pacific Islander and half white.
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I soon learned, however, that hapa, from hapa haole or half-white in Hawaiian, was my mixed race category between categories of race in America.
Hapa is supplanting terms like Amerasian, biracial, and blasian.
Allowing for the variation in the spelling of native names, we can here recognise the hapa of the Spaniards.
That's me, yes, I'm a hapa too, a baby born of war to a Vietnamese mother and a American serviceman.
He wandered over to the barbecue grill where I was talking to another guest, a photographer and fellow Hapa.
Being a hapa means feeling forever uneasy, no matter where you are or who you're with, white or Asian.

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