HAPA is a Hawaiian term, but in the context of Asian Americans, it is used to describe people who have multiracial or multiethnic identity and belong to the Asian descent. It means “half” and even though it was original a term to describe half Hawaiian and half another race or identity, it eventual became synonymous with multiethnic multiracial Asian Americans. People who identify themselves as HAPA denote half Asian and half other ethnicity or race. Even though there is a growing com