[goldbux]

“Poly” in Polynesia refers to many islands not many different races of inhabitants.

[Texan5]

Thanks-what little I’ve read of their origins and other Polynesians don’t indicate a pure ethnic group, either-it talks about people from Australia, Aryans from what is now India, and parts of Asia-all getting into boats and island hopping for centuries-very interesting people, but not ethnically pure, like Obama is wishing-some anthropologists say DNA tests show only 50% of Hawaiians who call themselves natives really are.

[norton]

Tribe and race are different things; you can be inducted into a tribe or be born into a tribe of people who look very little like you do.
Not so much with race, which all too often has been defined by the proposed "one drop of blood".