Euronesian

For people of mixed European and Indonesian descent, see Indo people.

Euronesian is an umbrella term and portmanteau for people of mixed European and either Polynesian,^[3] Melanesian or Micronesian descent.^[4] The term is most commonly used in Samoa. British or French colonizers, missionaries and traders, as well as some descendants of Spaniards and Polynesians in Easter Island (where Chilean law and generic Chilean social views name them mestizos), and descendants of Spaniards and Micronesians in Guam, Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau.^[5] ʻAfakasi is the common term of reference for euronesians in Samoa;^[1] in Fiji, the term Kailoma is usually used.^[6]

Euronesian

Samoan: 'Afakasi[1]
Total population
258,600[2]
Regions with significant populations
United States	125,628[2]
French Polynesia	45,000
New Caledonia	25,000
Samoa	18,000
Solomon Islands	18,000
Fiji	16,000
Papua New Guinea	5,100
American Samoa	4,700
Tonga	2,000
Kiribati	1,100
Cook Islands	1,000
Easter Island	c. 1,000
Norfolk Island	80
Pitcairn Islands	c. 47
New Zealand	Unknown
Australia	unknown
Languages
Polynesian languages Melanesian languages Micronesian languages English, French, Spanish
Religion
Predominantly (Christianity) Protestantism and Roman Catholicism Minority : Indigenous religion, Animism, Islam, some Atheism
Related ethnic groups
Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Vazaha, Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, English people, French people, other various European ethnic groups

Distinct Euronesian groups include the Hawaiian Hapa haole, Tahitian demis, Ōbeikei Islanders, Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, and Palmerston Islanders.

See also

• Austronesian peoples
• Europeans in Oceania
• Indo people
• Multiracial people