hapa

Hapa 是夏威夷语用来描述含有亚州血统的混血儿的通称。在夏威夷语中，hapa的本意为部分，碎片，部分的，不完全的，较少的。后引申为混血儿，犹指欧州人和亚洲人的混血儿。

今天，Hapa这个独特的名词在时尚界和演艺圈被广泛应用，形容具有独特的跨文化背景的个体或事物，是不同文化与语言间的桥梁，代表着一种混合的，多样的文化特性。

哈啪世界作为一个新型的3D互联网传媒平台，将现实世界和虚拟世界有机的结合起来，在哈啪世界中，有着与现实世界逼真的建筑、场景和人物，用户完全可以感受到犹如现实世界中真实的存在感。此外，哈啪世界还提供了各种形式的虚拟平台，比如工作、购物、商业交易、教育、交友、娱乐等。

哈啪世界在命名上借用了hapa一词，hapa是对哈啪世界这个新型互联网传媒平台最自然、最具渊源的描述。

Hapa is a Hawaiian term used to describe a person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage.

In the Hawaiian language, hapa is defined as: portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. It is a loan from the English word half. However, in Hawaiian Pidgin (the creole spoken by many Hawai'i residents), hapa has an extended meaning of "half-caste" or "of mixed descent". Mary Pukui & Samuel Ebert's Hawaiian Dictionary define hapa as: "of mixed blood, person of mixed blood as in hapa hawai'i, part Hawaiian." [See: Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. Ebert, Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and enlarged edition, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, 1986] The word hapa has moved into mainland English.

Used without qualification, hapa is often taken to mean "part White", and is short hand for hapa haole. The term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture. Examples of this include