are hawaiians asians?

Question

or do they have asian customs?

Answer 1

If you're talking about the ethnic group- no, they are Polynesians.

If you're talking about "Hawaiians" as in state citizens (Floridians, New Yorkers, etc.)- then they do use many Asian customs, and have a relatively high population of Asian-Americans.

Answer 2

No they are Polynesians or Pacific Islanders. Long time ago in ancient times, Islanders from the South East Asian ISLANDERS, such as Indonesians, Pre-Colonial Filipinos, etc (Not mainland Asians) set out to explore the pacific and landed in islands of the Pacific. Traces have been made from the Pottery found of Lapita culture that came from the SE islanders of Asia. However, it is many years now, and the polynesians have evolved into the the culture they made in which is very beautiful and enchanting into which they are considered Polynesians.

Answer 3

Polynesian

The Polynesian people are by ancestry a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people and the tracing of Polynesian languages places their prehistoric origins in the Malay archipelago. The spread of pottery and domesticates in Polynesia is connected with the Lapita-culture that, around 1600–1200 BC, started expanding from New Guinea as far east as Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Hawaii was settled in 400 AD

Answer 4

Like many of those that live on the islands of the Pacific Ocean the indigenous Hawaiians are Polynesian. The other large groups of the Pacific indigenous peoples are the Micronesians.

Answer 5

No, unless they brought them from Asia (thousands of miles away). There are plenty of people of Japanese descent in Hawaii for instance, and probably more then a handful of Chinese descendents as well.

Answer 6

mostly.