Everything about Chinese Immigration To Hawaii totally explained
The
Chinese in Hawaii constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) have ancestors from
Zhongshan in
Guangdong. This number doesn't include people of mixed
Chinese and
Hawaiian descent. If all people with Chinese ancestry in
Hawaii (including the Chinese-Hawaiians) are included, they form about 1/3 of Hawaii's entire population. As
United States citizens, they're a group of
Chinese Americans.
Origins
Historical records indicated that the earliest immigration of the Chinese came from
Guangdong province: a few sailors in
1778 with
Captain Cook's journey, more in
1788 with Kaina, and some in
1789 with an American trader who settled in Hawai in the late 18th century.
By 1790, a handful of Chinese lived on the island of
Oahu, including the 1789 group. They lived together with the chief
Kamehameha the Great. Because these Chinese men hadn't brought any Chinese women along with them, they intermarried with Hawaiian women. They became assimilated and created Chinese-Hawaiian surnames like Akaka, Ahina, etc, in which words of Chinese origin are pronounced with a soft Hawaiian tone. The practice of intermarrying with Hawaiian women continued well into the 19th century, when Chinese women were still a rarity in Hawaii.
Most of the Chinese immigrants to Hawaii arrived in the mid-to-late 19th century, when 46,000 people immigrated to the islands. Although many came as laborers, they concentrated on getting education for their children. By 1950 most Chinese American men in Hawaii were educated and held good jobs. Today 95% of Chinese Americans in Hawaii live in Honolulu and work at professional jobs.
Religion
Prior to the arrival of European
Christian missionaries to Hawaii, the early Chinese settlers were practicers of
Buddhism,
Taoism, and
Confucianism. Some even blended aspects of native Hawaiian beliefs into their own belief systems.
Today, due to the work of Christian missionaries in the late 19th century and the 20th century, many of the Chinese in Hawaii are adherents of
Protestant and
Roman Catholic Christianity. Still, about 100 Buddhist and ancestral Temples remain. The loyal minority who adhere to traditional Chinese religions pay pilgrimage to their ancestors annually. However, no accurate statistics of adherents within the Chinese community in Hawaii are available.
List of notable Chinese people from Hawaii
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