Euronesian is an

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and

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for people of mixed European and either Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian descent. The term is most commonly used in

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

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or French colonizers, missionaries and traders, as well as some descendants of

Spaniards Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance-speaking ethnic group native to the Iberian Peninsula, primarily associated with the modern nation-state of Spain. Genetically and ethnolinguistically, Spaniards belong to the broader Southern a ...

and Polynesians in Easter Island (where Chilean law names them mestizos), and descendants of Spaniards and

Micronesians The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan. Eth ...

Guam Guam ( ; ) is an island that is an Territories of the United States, organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. Guam's capital is Hagåtña, Guam, Hagåtña, and the most ...

, Northern Marianas,

Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory consists of 29 c ...

Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...

, and

Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands ...

. ''ʻAfakasi'' is the common term of reference for euronesians in Samoa; in Fiji, the term ''Kailoma'' is usually used.{{Cite web , title=Kailomas In Fiji , url=https://fijilandofourfathers.com/kailomas-fiji/ , access-date=2023-06-18 , website=fijilandofourfathers.com Distinct Euronesian groups include the Hawaiian '' Hapa haole'', Tahitian ''demis'',

Ōbeikei Islanders The Bonin Islanders, also known as the Ogasawara Islanders or in Japanese, are a Euronesian ethnic group native to the Bonin Islands (or Ogasawara Islands). They are culturally and genetically distinct from other Japanese ethnic groups such as ...

, Pitcairn Islanders, Norfolk Islanders, and Palmerston Islanders.

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Indigenous peoples of Polynesia Ethnic groups in Oceania European diaspora in Oceania Multiracial affairs

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