White people in Hawaii

Racial and multi-ethnic group

Ethnic group

White Americans in HawaiiTotal population

333,261 (22.9%)[1] (2020)
Regions with significant populations
Hawaii County| 33.6%[2]
Honolulu County| 18.5%[2]
Maui County| 32.9%[2]
Kauai County| 31.7%[2]
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (Mainly Protestant and Roman Catholicism)[3]

White people in Hawaii, also known as Haole, are people of predominantly European descent. They form 22.9% of the population according to the 2020 United States Census. There are around 294,102 White people in Hawaii. Including people with two or more races, the number of people with some European ancestry is 476,162 (39.3%), meaning that around 14.6% of the population is mixed race.[4] European ancestry, the majority are of Portuguese and British descent, with a small number of European immigrants of French, German, and Spanish descent.

## History

[edit]

See also: History of Hawaii

British explorer James Cook was the first European to land in the islands of present-day Hawaii on January 20, 1778. On a subsequent visit, he was killed by Native Hawaiians in Kealakekua during his attempt to kidnap and hold the king of the Island of Hawai'i Chief Kalaniʻōpuʻu in exchange for a stolen longboat.[5] An obelisk memorializing Cook's death can be seen from all points in Kealakekua Bay, on a plot of land deeded in perpetuity by the Kingdom of Hawaii to the United Kingdom.[6] The arrival of European missionaries resulted in conversion of Hawaii to Christianity.[7] Europeans brought diseases such smallpox, tuberculosis, measles and syphilis to Hawaii, which decimated the Native Hawaiian population.[8][9] James Cook and his crew also introduced sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea.[10]

## Notable people

[edit]

* Neil Abercrombie, the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014.[11]
* Linda Lingle, the sixth Governor of Hawaii from 2002 until 2010.[12]

## See also

[edit]

* Hawaii portal

* European Americans
* Europeans in Oceania
* Greeks in Hawaii
* Haole
* Portuguese immigration to Hawaii
* Spanish immigration to Hawaii
* White Americans in California
* White Americans in Maryland
* White people
* Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Hawaii - Demographics - Data Commons". datacommons.org.
2. ^ a b c d "Hawaii Demographics and Housing 2020 Decennial Census | indystar.com".
3. ^ "Adults in Hawaii who identify as white - Religion in America".
4. ^ "Hawaii Demographic Statistics". www.infoplease.com.
5. ^ "Hawaii - History | Britannica".
6. ^ "Captain Cook Monument; Atlas Obscura".
7. ^ "European Contact & Colonization - Hawai'i (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
8. ^ Williams, Victoria R. (February 24, 2020). Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4408-6118-5 - via Google Books.
9. ^ Marsella, Anthony J.; Johnson, Jeanette L.; Watson, Patricia; Gryczynski, Jan (November 26, 2007). Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma: Foundations, Issues, and Applications. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-73285-5 - via Google Books.
10. ^ Blakemore, Erin (February 5, 2019). "How Measles Helped Destroy the Hawaiian Monarchy". HISTORY.
11. ^ "Neil Abercrombie". National Governors Association. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
12. ^ "Linda Lingle". National Governors Association. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 2023-04-04.

* v
* t
* e

Ethnic groups in Hawaii

Africa|

* African

Americas|

* Puerto Rican
* Mexicans

Asia|

* Asian
* Chinese
* Filipino
* Indian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Taiwan

Europe|

* Haole
* White and European
* British
* French
* German
* Greek
* Italian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Russian
* Spanish

Oceania|

* Hawaiian
* Marshallese
* Samoan
* Tahitian
* Tongan

* v
* t
* e

European Americans

Central Europe|

* Austrian
* Czech
* German
* Sorbian
* Mennonite
* Amish
* German Texan
* Pennsylvania Dutch
* German Mennonites from Russia
* Hungarian
* Hungarian Ohioans
* Liechtensteiner
* Polish
* Kashubian
* Slovak
* Swiss

Eastern Europe and Caucasus|

* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Belarusian
* Georgian
* Russian
* Chechen
* Circassian
* Cossack
* Kalmyk
* Ukrainian
* Rusyn

Northern Europe|

* Danish
* Estonian
* Faroese
* Finnish
* Greenlandic
* Icelandic
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Norwegian
* Norwegian Dakotan
* Norwegian Minnesotan
* Sámi
* Swedish

Southeast Europe|

* Albanian
* Bosnian
* Bulgarian
* Cypriot
* Croatian
* Greek
* Kosovan
* Macedonian
* Montenegrin
* Romanian
* Moldovan
* Slovene
* Serbian
* Alaskan Serbs
* Turkish
* Yugoslav

Southern Europe|

* Italian
* Before 1880
* Sicilian
* Maltese
* Portuguese
* Sammarinese
* Spanish
* Asturian
* Basque
* Canarian
* Catalan
* Galician

Western Europe|

* Belgian
* British
* Cornish
* English
* Manx
* Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots
* Scottish
* Welsh
* Dutch
* Frisian
* French
* Breton
* Corsican
* Acadian
* Cajun
* Canadian
* Huguenot
* Irish
* Irish Traveller
* Luxembourgian

Other Europeans|

* White Americans
* Non-Hispanic whites
* White Hispanic and Latino
* Melungeon
* Métis
* Louisiana Creole
* Cajun
* Isleños
* French Canadian
* Acadian
* Cajun

By region|

* Appalachia
* California
* San Francisco
* Hawaii
* White Southerners
* Arkansas
* Louisiana
* Maryland

* v
* t
* e

White people

* Bold refers to countries, regions and territories in which the majority ethnic group is generally considered to be people of white European descent.

European emigration
by location|

| Africa|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Botswana
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Kenya
* Malawi
* Morocco
* Namibia
* Reunion
* South Africa
* Tunisia
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

|

Asia|

* Pakistan

North America|

* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Bermuda
* Canada
* Caribbean
* Cayman Islands
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Panama
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* California
* San Francisco
* Hawaii
* Louisiana
* Maryland
* Baltimore
* Southern United States
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Kitts and Nevis

South America|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Oceania|

* Australia
* New Caledonia
* Hawaii
* New Zealand

Historical concepts|

* Apartheid
* Aryan
* Blanqueamiento
* Castas
* Peninsulares
* Criollos
* First white child
* Honorary whites
* Play the white man
* Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
* Settler colonialism
* White Australia policy
* The White Man's Burden
* White gods

Sociological
phenomena and theories|

* Acting white (Passing as white)
* Missing white woman syndrome
* Skin whitening
* White flight
* White guilt
* White privilege
* Whiteness studies
* Whitewashing in art
* Whitewashing in film
* White savior
* White demographic decline
* White people terms
* White supremacy
* Reverse racism
* Anti-white racism

Negative stereotypes of Whites|

* In the United States
* Appalachian stereotypes
* Hillbilly
* Mountain whites
* Poor Whites
* Redlegs
* Rednecks
* White trash
* Karen
* Angry white male
* Becky
* Basic
* Trixie
* White monkey

White identity politics|

* US definitions of whiteness
* One-drop rule
* Alt-right
* Christian Identity
* European New Right
* Great Replacement
* Identitarian movement
* Non-Hispanic whites
* Old Stock
* Americans
* Canadians
* Quebeckers
* White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
* White ethnic
* White genocide conspiracy theory
* White Hispanic
* White identity
* White nationalism
* White pride
* White supremacy

* Race
* Ethnic groups in Europe
* Commons

This Hawaiʻi-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template