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Asian-Americans In Hawaii
Most early Asian American, Asian settlers to the United States went to Hawaii. Most of these early immigrants moved to the islands as laborers to work on the pineapple, coconut, and sugarcane Sugar plantations in Hawaii, plantations. These early migrants have tended to stay, although a handful returned to their home countries. There has also been recent immigration to Hawaii from more ethnic Asian groups, including the Thai American, Thai, Indonesian American, Indonesian, and the Vietnamese American, Vietnamese. Filipinos Filipinos, like most other Southeast Asian immigrants to Hawaii, worked on the sugar plantations. In 2010 United States census, 2010, Filipinos surpassed Japanese as the largest ethnic group. At the time of the 2000 United States census, 2000 census, they were the third largest ethnic group in the islands. 85% of Filipinos in Hawaii trace their ancestry to the Ilocos Region of northern Luzon. Japanese Until 2010, people of Japanese ancestry made up the plur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American English
American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances is the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce. Since the 20th century, American English has become the most influential form of English worldwide. American English varieties include many patterns of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and particularly spelling that are unified nationwide but distinct from other English dialects around the world. Any North American English, American or Canadian accent (sociolinguistics), accent perceived as lacking noticeably local, ethnic or cultural markedness, markers is popularly called General American, "General" or "Standard" American, a fairly uniform dialect continuum, accent continuum native to certain regions of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
