Hapa Perspectives

I recently restarted the Hapa club on my campus and are working to bring to light the growing number our the Hapa people in the world. Though it is understood by most people that term refers to those of Asian; our club is open to any who are of mixed of any ethnicities as well as those who are curious about growing up in a multiracial environment.

With Kip Fulbeck (Author of "Part Asian, 100% Hapa") coming to campus, I feel like this is a great opportunity to get my organization to grow and bring awareness to the growing amount of diverse students.

Seeing this video inspires me do something similar, and/or take on similar projects to bring more Hapa/meztiso/mixed people together. If anyone has any suggestions, it is always welcome! ^_^

Why weren't the black/Asians included? I would consider a black/Asian mix more of an interesting issue considering blacks have to deal with ''White'' America's ignorance, That and how they would be viewed or treated by pure Asians makes for a critical and interesting Topic!

I think people are wrong of what the true meaning of Hapa is? Hapa is not of asian and haole descent. It is actually, referring to Half Hawaiian and Half Haole. I guess over the years the true meaning of Hapa has come out of Hawaii and is being used in a different way on the mainland and parts of the world.

i super love this! thank you.

Americanos have a term for this as well: mestizo. Even more, there might be good reason to think both mestizo and hapa point out, at least sometimes, the same ethnic composition: European combined with native American (read: Asian immigrant) 'blood'. This helps explain why some Hapas are regularly confused for 'Latinos' and some 'Latinos' confused for Asian.

love this vid! i'm chirish too. i didn't know others of us existed. (:

Interesting video. I'm half Vietnamese/French. I love it and wouldn't change it for the world. I think it's great theer are so many "hapas" from different part of the world uniting!

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An illuminating film. I'm Irish and married to an English woman and our youngest was born in Manhattan. We now live in London. Our eldest, though born in London, is very American having lived most of his young life in New York up until our move back in August.

I look forward to some interesting conversations in future. Claire and I consider ourselves more European than either Irish or English or even British in Claire's case. It would be good if the boys considered themselves European when they're older.

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Great movie! Good work!

Growing up in Hawaii, I knew more hapa people than pure bloods, myself included.

I'm 57. Scottish, Welsh and Japanese, born in America in 1951. It was weird growing up with reference points to my body image, etc. Wish there had been other hapas then and exploration of hapa identity.

This is really great! Good luck, I hope you win!

Oh I wish this was longer. I've never seen a video on halfies before!

Wow, I love hearing what other Hapa people have to say. There were some very interesting/surprising answers here. Keep up the good work!

This is amazing. Great job!

Very cute. I particularly liked the ending.

YEA HAPA PRIDE!!!!!!!

Great video! This is an underrepresented group of people and I love that they're getting some publicity!!

because I am hapa and I love hapas to be recognized.