0 someone who has one Hawaiian or East Asian parent and one white parent: --
1 having one Hawaiian or East Asian parent and one white parent: --
One legacy of the internment camps is a whole generation of so-called hapa children - a Hawaiian term meaning "half".
Being hapa, I've never really found my place in either the Chinese community or the white one.
His first wife was a Pacific Islander and his children are hapa.
"Here in Hawai'i, we love our hapas," she said. "But elsewhere, I was called a half-breed."
I began a mission to become a real hapa, whatever that might be, not one who was just passing as white.