Who would have thought – America’s most geographically remote State is also its most culturally diverse.

Since at least the 7th century if not before, hardy travellers have been landing on, and calling these picturesque islands home. North Americans, it seems are comparative fresh faced newcomers given their fist recorded involvement in Hawaii was in 1821 when missionaries from New England arrived to do God’s work. The United State’s decision to amalgamate Hawaii as a sovereign state in August of 1959 came at five minutes to midnight, historically speaking.

Also it would seem that the Hawaiian Islands continue to attract settlers from places near and far. Today this state boasts a population of just over 1.2 million, 20% of whom claim a multiethnic link no more than 2 generations past.

Is there a continent on earth that hasn’t contributed its citizens to this isolated haven in the mid Pacific? A look at a timeline of immigration tends to suggest not.

700 - 900 AD - Polynesians migrate to the Hawaiian Islands .
1778 AD – The English explorer and sea captain James Cook discovers Hawaii for Great Britain.
1821 AD - American missionaries arrive from New England.
1852 - 1898 AD – The first 50000 (of millions) of Chinese contract labourers arrive in Hawaii.
1868 AD – The first Japanese workers (153) arrive in Hawaii.
1877 AD - Portuguese labourers recruited in the Azores are shipped to Hawaii.
1878 - 1884 AD - 9,471 Portuguese workers arrive in Hawaii.
1880 AD – Large fishing and farming interests recruit Norwegian to come to Hawaii.
1881 AD - German workers also recruited to come to Hawaii.
1885 - 1924 AD - 200,000 more Japanese workers and their families come to Hawaii.
1900 AD - First workers arrive from Puerto Rico, eventually 5,000 would come to Hawaii.
1900 - 1908 AD - Over eight thousand indentured arrive from Okinawa.
1902 - 1905AD - 7,843 Koreans arrive.
1905 - 1916 AD – the first of the eventual 18,144 Philippino labourers arrive.
1907 AD - 2,250 Spanish migrants from Malaga arrive to work on the plantations.
1911 to 1920 AD - 3,000 Filipinos arrive in Hawaii each year.
1921 to 1930 AD - over 7,000 Filipinos arrive annually.

Of course, since the end of the 2nd world war and particularly since it’s inauguration at America’s 50th State in 1959, Americans have also been flocking to Hawaii for both reasons of business and lifestyle. Will this tropical outpost of the United States continue to be a magnet for people worldwide? Time will tell.

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