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This state has the largest concentration of hapas in the United States. It is also where the term "hapa" originated.
What is Hawaii?
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This Chinese American actor is often praised as the greatest martial artist of all time. He married a Caucasian woman and had a hapa son, named Brandon Lee.
Who is Bruce Lee?
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This TLC series showcases a hapa family consisting of a pair of twins and sextuplets.
What is John and Kate Plus 8? John is half Korean and Kate is Caucasian.
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This hapa sings this 2008 hit single:
Who is Ne-yo? Shaffer Chimere Smith AKA Ne Yo, is of African-American and Chinese ethnicity. His Grandfather was Chinese on his mother’s side.
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This hapa is the highest paid athlete in the world, after winning 14 professional major golf championships and 71 PGA tour events.
Who is Tiger Woods? Tiger refers to himself as "cablinasian" as one quarter Thai, one quarter African American, one quarter Chinese, one eighth Native American and one eighth Dutch.
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A third of the hapa population in the United States lives in this state.
What is California?
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This actor starred as Jacob in the 2008 film Twilight.
Who is Taylor Lautner? He is of French, Dutch, German, and Native American Ottawa and Potawatomi descent.
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This American television news journalist is the anchor on NBC's Morning television program today.
Who is Ann Curry? Ann Curry's mother is Japanese and her father is Caucasian.
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This hapa sings this 2010 hit single:
Who is Bruno Mars? Peter Gene Hernandez AKA Bruno Mars was born and raised in Honolulu by his Puerto Rican father and Filipina mother.
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This Pittsburg Steelers hapa was the first Asian American to win the Super Bowl MVP award.
Who is Hines Ward? Hines Ward was born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and African American father. He created the Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation, a foundation to help mixed-race children like himself in South Korea, where they have suffered discrimination.
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A third of this Asian American ethnic group is multiracial.
What is Japanese American? 30.7% of Americans who identify themselves as Japanese are hapa!
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This hapa is best known for her lead role as Gabriella Montez in High School Musical.
Who is Vanessa Hudgens? Vanessa Hudgens was born to a father of Irish and Native American ancestry and a Filipina mother of Filipina, Spanish and Chinese descent.
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This hapa was superman's girlfriend on the American television series Smallville.
Who is Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang)? Kreuk is half Chinese, half Dutch.
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This hapa sings this 2005 hit single:
Who is Michelle Branch? Michelle Branch was born to an Irish father and a part Dutch, part Indonesian mother.
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This hapa speed skater is the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time.
Who is Apolo Ohno? Apolo was born to a Japanese father and a Caucasian American mother.
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This Hawaiian term is used to describe people of mixed Asian and Caucasian descent.
What is Hapa Haole? This "mix" composes 52.4% of hapas in the United States!
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In a 1999 blockbuster hit this hapa had to choose between a red pill and a blue pill.
Who is Keanu Reeves? Keanu Reeves was born to a half Hawaiian, half Chinese father, and an English mother.
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This heartthrob hapa is best known for his role in the TV series One Tree Hill, and he has also starred in "Freaky Friday" and "A Cinderella Story"
Who is Chad Michael Murray? Chad Michael Murray is a quarter Japanese, and three quarters Caucasian.
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This hapa sings this 2009 hit single featuring Ciara:
Who is Enrique Iglesias? Enrique Iglesias was born to Spanish singer, Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler, a Filipino celebrity.
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These laws prohibited Asians from marrying whites until 1967
What is Miscegenetion Laws? It wasn't until the 1967 Virginia vs. Loving supreme court decision that these laws against interracial marriage were struck down as unconstitutional.
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This hapa is a famous actor in South Korea, and also appeared in the American film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Who is Daniel Henney? Daniel Henney was born to a Korean mother who was adopted in the U.S. and an Anglo-American father.
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This American news anchor regularly reports for the Early Show and is an anchor for CBS Morning News.
Who is Betty Nguyen. She is half Vietnamese, half Scottish.
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This hapa raps in this 2006 hit single:
Who is Fort Minor? Michael Kenji Shinoda AKA Fort Minor is best known as a member of the rock band Linkin Park. His grandfather who was interned during the war because of his Japanese heritage.
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This hapa won back-to-back gold medals in the 1984 and 1988 summer olympics for Diving. He was a spokeperson for HIV/AIDS and his autobiography, Breaking the Surface, became a bestseller.
Who is Greg Louganis? He was born to parents of Samoan and Northern European descent.
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