Pacific Islander is a term used to describe the individuals of the Pacific Islands.
The islands scattered throughout a triangle covering the east-central region of the Pacific Ocean. The triangle is bound by the Hawaiian islands in the north, New Zealand in the west, and Easter Island in the east. The remainder of Polynesia consists of Samoan islands (American Samoa and Samoa), the Cook Islands, French Polynesia (Tahiti and The Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Austral Islands, and the Tuamotu Archipelago), Niue Island, Tokelau and Tuvalu, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, and Pitcairn Island.
Regional usage in New Zealand utilizes the term to distinguish those that have actually emigrated from one of these locations in modern times from the indigenous New Zealand Maori (who are additionally Polynesian but arrived in New Zealand several centuries earlier), and from various other ethnic teams. A stated reason for making the ethnic difference is that the Pacific individuals deal with socio-economic downsides as a group and profit from culturally targeted social and wellness support.
Pacific Islanders living in New Zealand comprise 6 percent of the national population. 67 percent of the overall variety of Pacific Islanders in New Zealand, stay in the Auckland region making Auckland the biggest Polynesian city in the world (Smelt, and Lin, 1998). Statistics presently available in New Zealand project development in the Pacific Island neighborhood is estimated to get to 480,000 in the year 2026. (Statistics New Zealand, n.d.). This number has actually raised from the approximated 300,000 forecasted as an outcome of the 2006 census.
Baseding on the united state Bureau of the Census, Population Estimates Program (PEP), a "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" is "a doctor having origins in any of the initial folks of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It consists of individuals that show their race as 'Native Hawaiian', 'Guamanian or Chamorro', 'Samoan', and 'Other Pacific Islander' or provide various other comprehensive Pacific Islander responses.".
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