Tag: Islanders

Discrimination abounds when first-world citizens try to figure out what’s what when it comes to geographic ethnicities. Filipinos are Pacific Islanders because the Philippine Islands are literally Islands in the Pacific Ocean. If Filipinos were born or immigrated in a country, such as American...

As of March 2022, the Oregon Health Authority reported a hospitalization rate of 8.6% among total cases for Pacific Islanders — the highest among all groups — and a fatality rate of 1.1%. Other states show similarly high numbers. In California, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have...