: Polynesian ( full blood ) 81. 3 %, Polynesian and European 7. 7 %, Polynesian and non-European 7. 7 %, European 2. 4 %, other 0. 9 %

Polynesians 73. 6 %, Mixed Polynesian and French 9. 3 %, European ( mainly French ) 11. 9 %, East Asians ( mainly Chinese ) 4. 7 %.

The initial Micronesian population, which remains the overwhelming majority today, was visited by Polynesian and Melanesian invaders before the first European sailors discovered the islands in the 16th century.

* Euronesians: 7 % ( people of European and Polynesian descent )

Melanesian 94. 5 %, Polynesian 3 %, Micronesian 1. 2 %, European 0. 8 %, Chinese 0. 3 %, other 0. 4 %

The population is around 38, 000 ; predominately Melanesian, with small Polynesian, Asian, Australian and European populations, mainly French and British.

Music from Chilean Polynesia, Rapa Nui music, is derived from Polynesian culture rather than colonial society or European influences.

Because of Polynesian and European colonisation and the introduction of predators such as cats, rats, ferrets, and stoats, the Kakapo was almost wiped out.

The culture of New Zealand is largely inherited from British and European custom, interwoven with Maori and Polynesian tradition.

European and Māori remain the two largest ethnicities, but the large Polynesian population in Auckland has prompted the observation that Auckland is now the largest Polynesian city in the world.

As with most other settler societies, it can be said descriptively that Pākehā contemporary culture is an amalgam of cultural practices, tensions, and accommodations: British / European with some Māori and Polynesian influences and more recently wider cultural inputs, particularly from Chinese and other Far Eastern cultures.

Anglo in New Zealand refers to anyone who is of British Isles ( Anglo-Celtic ) ancestry, although the more popular term for them, as well as for any New Zealander of European origins, is Pākehā, a Māori term used by the indigenous Polynesian people.

While pigs were doubtlessly brought to New Zealand by the original Polynesian settlers, this population had become extinct by the time of European colonization, and all feral pigs in New Zealand today are descendants of European stock.

A published, apparently pre-Columbian, Chilean specimen and six pre-European Polynesian specimens also cluster with the same European / Indian subcontinental / Southeast Asian sequences, providing no support for a Polynesian introduction of chickens to South America.

while allowing the return of pre-war inhabitants of White American or European, Micronesian or Polynesian ancestry.

It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian ( Wallisians, Futunians, Tahitians ), Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians, Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks that work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

By managing the European and African populations as one-by strategic exports from Europe combined with in-situ transfers, gene-loss is reduced to 0. 72 % every 100 years with both populations remaining stable.

Yet, when a distinction is made, Epipaleolithic is used for those cultures that were not much affected by the ending of the Ice Age ( like the Natufian and Khiamian cultures of Western Asia ) and the term Mesolithic is reserved for Western Europe where the extinction of the Megafauna had a great impact on the Paleolithic populations at the end of the Ice Age ( like European post-glacial cultures: Azilian, Sauveterrian, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian, etc.

Most of the social issues facing European countries in general: immigration, aging populations, straining social-welfare and pension systems-are all important in Germany.

The bird's down was in high demand in Europe, a factor which largely eliminated the European populations by the mid-16th century.

North Atlantic populations were extirpated ( perhaps by whaling ) on the European coast before 500 AD and on the American coast around the late 17th to early 18th centuries.

The European form was similar in appearance to modern populations, but was larger, being comparable in size to the brown hyena.

Rapid economic development was seen as necessary to make the railway pay, and since the African population was accustomed to subsistence rather than export agriculture, the government decided to encourage European settlement in the fertile highlands, which had small African populations.

Since the early Middle Ages, the trade in furs was of great economic importance for northern and eastern European nations with large native populations of fur-bearing mustelids, and was a major economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America.

Sea otters are vulnerable to oil spills and the indirect effects of overfishing ; the black-footed ferret, a relative of the European polecat, suffers from the loss of American prairie ; and wolverine populations are slowly declining because of habitat destruction and persecution.

A study reported in The American Journal of Human Genetics stated, " We analyzed the European genetic contribution to 10 populations of African descent in the United States ( Maywood, Illinois ; Detroit ; New York ; Philadelphia ; Pittsburgh ; Baltimore ; Charleston, South Carolina ; New Orleans ; and Houston ) ... mtDNA haplogroups analysis shows no evidence of a significant maternal Amerindian contribution to any of the 10 populations.

" Future together ", as the name implies, is opposed to a racial vision of New Caledonian society, which divides into opposing camps Melanesians native inhabitants and European settlers, and is in favor of a multicultural New Caledonia, better reflecting the existence of large populations of Polynesians, Indonesians, Chinese, and other immigrants.

Cuisine in western Massachusetts had similar immigrant influences as the coastal regions, though historically strong Eastern European populations instilled kielbasa and pierogi as common dishes.

Encounters between European explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced local epidemics of extraordinary virulence.

That said, they shied away from overt collaboration with communist states, arguing along the lines of the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split that the Soviet Union and its European satellite states had become traitors to the communist cause by, in effect if not in rhetoric, giving the United States a free pass in their exploitation of Third World populations and support of " useful " Third World dictators.

And thus, as of 2008, Switzerland is at the second place among European countries with populations above one million in terms of nominal and purchasing power parity Gross Domestic Product per capita, behind Norway ( see list ).

However, the heterozygous advantage hypothesis was proposed in one review in which the author himself writes, " Although cellular / molecular evidence presently is not available for this hypothesis, the CF mutation may be one of several mutations that have spread in European populations because they increased resistance to infectious diseases.

Uyghurs are thus one of the many populations of Central Eurasia that can be considered to be genetically related to European and East Asian populations.

The admixture may be the result of a continuous gene flow from populations of European and Asian descent, or may be formed by a single event of admixture during a short period of time ( the hybrid isolation model ).

Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range.

31 ) compared with European and East Asian populations which have skin reflectance values of 62 to 69 and 50 to 59 respectively.

Following the move on harmonisation of the standard in Europe, some British Standards are gradually superseded or replaced by the relevant European Standards ( EN ).

However, the precession of the equinoxes gradually lowered its stars below the European horizon, and they were eventually forgotten by the inhabitants of northern latitudes.

In March 1976, the Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe was established, which gradually evolved into the ELDR Party with a matching group in the European Parliament, the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

After the disasters of the 14th century – war, plague, and schism – early-modern European society gradually came into being as a result of economic, religious, and political changes.

The internal conflicts among Indian kingdoms gave opportunities to the European traders to gradually establish political influence and appropriate lands.

The practice was adopted by European settlers, who gradually improved production methods.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 ( and similar, albeit less successful, revolutions in many other European countries ) brought communism-and in particular the political theory of Leninism, but also on a smaller level Luxemburgism ( gradually )-on the world stage.

This example was only gradually followed in other European countries.

Sailing from Eastern spice growers to Western European consumers gradually replaced the land-locked spice routes once facilitated by the Middle East Arab caravans.

Over the following centuries the three terms grotesque, moresque and arabesque were used largely interchangeably in English, French and German for styles of decoration derived at least as much from the European past as the Islamic world, with " grotesque " gradually acquiring its main modern meaning, related more to Gothic gargoyles and caricature than to either Pompeii-style Roman painting or Islamic patterns.

European influence gradually brought an end to this regional power.

As a counterproposal to this initiative, Chávez has promoted the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas ( Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas, ALBA ), vaguely based on the model of the European Union, which makes emphasis on energy and infrastructure agreements that are gradually extended to other areas finally to include the total economic, political and military integration of the member states

The phonological features traditionally distinguishing informal Quebec French and formal European French have gradually acquired varying sociolinguistic status, so that certain traits of Quebec French are perceived neutrally or positively by Quebecers, while others are perceived negatively.

By the 19th century, only ten percent of this forest cover remained and the European settlers introduced several new exotic grass, lupin, pine and macrocarpa that gradually supplanted the native vegetation.

By the mid-19th century, the Japanese soy sauce gradually disappeared from the European market, and soy sauce became synonymous with the Chinese product.

Since then, the European Community has gradually evolved to Union in which a whole range of policy areas where its member states hope to benefit from working together.

Because of this eastern origin, the earlier IMOs were hosted only in eastern European countries, and gradually spread to other nations.

But the Ottomans had gradually fallen behind the other European powers as they failed to modernise their political institutions, economic system and military forces.

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the canning process was gradually employed in other European countries and in the US.

For some years, the Taipings gradually advanced eastwards, but eventually they came close enough to Shanghai to alarm the European inhabitants.

In theater, Russian dominance began to gradually weaken, and other influences began to permeate, such as the European theater of Bertolt Brecht.

Realism gradually developed into modernism, which emerged in the 1890s and came to dominate European literature during the Belle Époque's final years and throughout the interwar years.

Pressure from European Canadians and Americans gradually pushed the tribe westward to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with one community in British Columbia.