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So how are you hapa?

topic posted Thu, August 28, 2003 - 6:18 PM by  Ryan
Share your assorted sides! I'm mostly Japanese, but I'm also a happy mix of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, Filipino... even a speck of Norwegian, according to some records. My wife is Haole (Caucasian), making our kids even more hapa than I!
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  • Roy
    Roy
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    Re: So how are you hapa?

    Fri, August 29, 2003 - 11:46 AM
    I'm a mix of Scottish/Irish/English/French/Polish/Czech/Navajo on my father's side and Vietnamese/Chinese on my mother's. Culturally, I was raised in the Philippines and consider myself an honorary Pinoy.
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  • Travis
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    Re: So how are you hapa?

    Fri, September 19, 2003 - 11:49 AM
    1/2 japanese (my mother was born and raised on the big island in hawaii) and 1/2 irish (my father was born and raised in philadelphia, pa).
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  • Burt
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    Re: So how are you hapa?

    Fri, September 19, 2003 - 11:56 AM
    Well, where shall I start? I am half Chinese on my dad's side and half Chinese on my mom's side. But I am hapa at heart. Since I have this Sino-centric view of the world, I believe that Chinese is the root stock of all people so by default I am pretty mixed (up).
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    • Seba...
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      Re: So how are you hapa?

      Tue, July 13, 2004 - 8:14 AM
      half chinese with tuvan roots (from my mother's family) and french, danish, irish and scottish-mix (from father's family). Have to disagree with you Burt, I don't believe any one race is the root of all other races. I believe we've cross-pollinated our gene pools, but i'm not down with the Chinese elitism.
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  • Jeff...
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    Fri, September 19, 2003 - 10:08 PM
    My mother is native-born Japanese. Father is of Finnish descent (so stubbornness is deeply engrained in my genetic memory...). My wife is mostly African-American and some Native American, which makes our kids pretty much part of every major ethnic group except Latino...
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  • mika
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    Re: So how are you hapa?

    Thu, October 16, 2003 - 4:07 PM
    Half Lebanese, Half Broooooklynese ;)
    Actually, the Brooklyn half is Russian and Eastern European mix.

    Another way to look at it:

    Half arabic jew (sephardic), half ashkenazi.
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  • Re: So how are you hapa?

    Wed, October 29, 2003 - 11:16 AM

    My stats: I'm a little bit o'this, and a little bit o'that. I'm French, English, Welsh, German, Dutch, Chinese and Indonesian. I'm all mixed up!

    I could run the UN and still be the missing Spice Girl, AKA "Island Spice" who purportedly lives off some island chain in the South Pacific. Yeah, you guessed it: Bikini Atoll!

    Love & Rockets,
    DaBomb
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  • Cath...
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    Wed, October 29, 2003 - 12:48 PM
    Japanese from Akita on my mother's side and Scottish/Norwegian from northern Minnesota on my father's. Born in Tokyo but Frisco all the way baby!
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    Thu, November 6, 2003 - 5:31 PM
    My Mother is full Korean from South Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and my Father's side of the family is Danish, with some hint of German, Blackfoot Indian, Jewish.

    :)
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  • Joseph
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    Fri, November 21, 2003 - 4:38 AM
    I am half Chinese and Half Irish. So that makes me one hell of an Engineer, or what great Drunken Style Master. What can I say, born in 1969 from mom and dad who met and married at U.C. Berkeley (back in the day) .

    Now if i can only age and get grey hair one day!
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  • laurgs
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    Thu, January 15, 2004 - 10:14 PM
    half japanese, half 'merican
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    • Mama B
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      Fri, January 16, 2004 - 10:25 AM
      I'm Vietnamese and Pennsylvania Dutch (which means I'm part hick-at-heart). My daughter is Chinese, Vietnamese, Pennsylvania Dutch Canadian/American. My PA Dutch dad jokingly said that I'm trying to wash the taint of White blood out of my progeny!
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  • Sandra
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    Fri, January 23, 2004 - 12:01 AM
    My Dad is Cuban and French
    My Mom is Mexican and Colombian

    My first baby is German, English, and all the above

    My next three babies' Dad is Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Spanish

    So my last three kids are Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Spanish/Cuban/French/Colombian/Mexican

    They are super cute too.
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  • Tsyzer
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    Thu, January 29, 2004 - 10:15 PM
    50% Taiwanese & 50% White to da bone. Glad to have grown up in hawaii with other hapas so that I could develop my sense of hapa identity, apart from having to pick just one :)
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  • Raph...
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    Re: So how are you hapa?

    Mon, February 2, 2004 - 12:34 AM
    japanese on the father's side, argentine mixed with italian, spanish, french, and british on the mother's. *sigh* it would be nice if the japanese weren't so ethnocentric.
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    • Jeff...
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      Re: So how are you hapa?

      Thu, February 5, 2004 - 7:43 AM
      If they weren't so ethnocentric, they wouldn't be so, um, interesting... ;)

      To be fair, I think there's a major difference in attitudes about diversity between the older (post-WWII) generation and the younger (30s or younger) generation in Japan. Expect to see things change in the next several years...
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  • Alt
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    Thu, February 12, 2004 - 8:22 PM
    mom:African, Native American(Seminole), Spanish
    dad:African, Native American(Seminole), 50%unknown(his father was adopted Most likely african/native american by looking at my grandpa)
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  • Re: So how are you hapa?

    Tue, February 17, 2004 - 7:31 AM
    Hello everyone ~ My Dad is Filipino with an 1/8th Spanish, from Up Country Maui. And my Mom is Christian Palestinean originally from Jerusalem. I was actually born in Japan and raised in Hawaii from the age of three. When I was younger I didn't know what to do with my unique dual-heritage, since there really wasn't anyone else quite like my siblings and I growing up in Hawaii. Eventually I grew to appreciate and celebrate the many unique influences from which I come, and can celebrate it all as my own!

    Being hapa rocks!

    +kenrom-
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    • Psya...
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      Re: So how are you hapa?

      Sat, February 21, 2004 - 10:07 AM
      thai/american (irish!)

      ^_^

      thailand is a mecca for people who share my origin so i was quite lucky in that respect, never feeling too lonely :)

      but then you always have to deal with that forever nagging question "where are you from?" and the jumbled awkward response that follows.
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  • Ruri
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    Wed, March 3, 2004 - 1:18 AM
    Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, Portuguese, West Indies, Cherokee and a pinch of Irish. And my nieces and nephews add Jamician, English and Norweign.

    I love the looked we get when we all get together for a family outting. It's kind of fun to confuse people. Of, course this does not work in Hawaii. hehehe