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 and Fiji. Most Euronesians are descended from British or French colonizers, missionaries and traders and with some from Spaniards and Polynesians in Easter Island (where they are called mestizos by Chilean law) and from Spaniards and Micronesians in Guam, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau.[5] ʻAfakasi is the common turn of reference for euronesians in Samoa.[1]In Fiji, the term Kailoma is usually used.[6]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 258,600[2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States 125,628[2]
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 Pitcairn Islands c. 47 Unknown populations in Australia and New Zealand. | |
| Languages | |
| Polynesian languages Melanesian languages Micronesian languages English, French, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Protestantism, Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Vazaha, Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, English people, French people, other various European ethnic groups |
Distinct Euronesian groups include the Hawaiian Hapa haole, Tahitian demis, Ōbeikei Islanders, Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, and Palmerston Islanders.
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- ^ a b "Olaf Nelson and the place of afakasi in Samoa". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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'.
- ^ a b Bridging 1990 and 2000 census race data: Fractional assignment of multiracial populations. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ ""EURONESIAN", The Need For A New Word". Retrieved 15 June 2021. Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's who. 1971. p. 84.
- ^ There is no scientific element about this ancient classification into both terms, [1], and "Oceanians" would be better.
- ^ "Censo 2002". Ine.cl. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Kailomas In Fiji". fijilandofourfathers.com. Retrieved 2023-06-18.