AA Attitude toward Hapas | Asian American Poll

AA ATTITUDE TOWARD HAPAS
(Updated Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 06:39:10 AM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are Asian American, which best describes your feeling toward Hapas (persons with one Asian parent)?
I find them more attractive than pure Asians. | 38%
I find them less attractive than pure Asians. | 11%
I find them equally attractive as other Asian Americans. | 13%
They put me off by seeming more white than Asian. | 28%
I am never quite sure how to relate to them. | 10%

Assuming you are a Hapa, which best describes your own feelings?
I am most comfortable with Asians. | 38%
I am most comfortable with Whites. | 33%
I am most comfortable around other Hapas. | 6%
I am equally comfortable with Asians and Whites. | 23%

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Jay,

Thanks for the feedback. You've got a pretty diverse mix going there. I do have some Native American blood as well, from my father's side. I think it helps to contribute to my more "ethnic" rather than caucasian look.

I'm sad to say that I have yet to see Corea. Much of it has to do with finances and additionally, I've been pretty regionally landlocked here. I've travelled very little in general, except for a couple years I got to live in San Francisco (great experiences).

Now, I am curious in what context you mean "extremely disappointed" with the few hapas you've met in the Southwest? Please explain.

Later.

Bulgogi Boy Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 23:19:04 (PST)

Hey, I'm a mixed race girl from Malaysia.I don't know how I stumbled upon this website though. I'm a Eurasian girl My mom is actually a Baba Nyonya (Chinese with alittle Malay) and my dad's an Aussie with Russian descent.In detail, he has Jewish, Ukrainian, Polish,Georgian and alittle Chinese blood.I found this poll has quite a number of half Malaysian. That's cool.Malaysian-Eurasian Gal, what kind of mix are you?
Charmaine Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 18:30:30 (PST)

I think Jay has a "Hapa Fetish". You are obsessed Jay.
Roy Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 18:29:07 (PST)

Jay,

No I don't know T.H Lien. Thanks for answering all my questions. We know you much better now. hehehe.
korean girl Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 18:25:20 (PST)

[Wrong. --Ed]

Are you suggesting that my description of the definition is wrong?

If you are, then you're wrong or your source is wrong.

I was born and raised in Hawaii, and I am actually Hawaiian (real Hawaiian, not the kind that most people claim to be just cuz' they got a couple relatives who live there) and the way I have always heard the term Hapa used by the "old folks" is the way I described it.

It appears to me you're basing your definition off of some watered down, diluted, second hand "pidgen" form that so many asians and others seem to adopt.

Although pidgen is used locally, even it butchers and alters lot of true meanings of words, from many other languages, not only Hawaiian.

If you took many of the Hawaiian words used within pidgen and had some old folks compare them with their definition of those words (which will be pre-pidgen era) you'd find out most of the watered down, second hand pidgen versions are inaccurate.

Just as an example, look at how many peoples own sirnames aren't even the true original spelling. At some earlier stage someone within the family may have slightly altered the spelling for whatever reason and from that point on it gets handed down with the new version. As far as I'm concerned, I don't care if it goes through 500 generations, the altered version will never be the true original way.
me Sunday, January 06, 2002 at 16:10:34 (PST)

[Yours is the view of a small minority of persons using the pidgin English word "hapa". Even in Hawaii, it is used to refer mostly to people who are half Asian rather than half native Hawaiian. One reason is that native Hawaiians are less than 10% of even Hawaii residents while Asians are over 50%. On the mainland, virtually no one uses the word to refer to part-native-Hawaiians. We have no desire to devote more space or time to this highly tangential sidelight any more than we want to begin dissecting the origins of the word "Asian". --Ed]

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