Japanese culture in Hawaii

I heard an interesting story about japanese american people and their culture, from my boyfriend, who is a 4th gereration japanese american living in Hawaii.

Long time ago some japanese people moved to Hawaii to get jobs in plantations.

Although native people had lived there already, they got accounted for quite high percentage of the Hawaii's population after they moved to Hawaii.

So they didnt have to lose their culture.

Even now they eat some japanese food, use some japanese words and even have a bon dance festival every year.Their mind seem to be stil japanese. It might depend on each family or person tho...

In addition, they speak English called Pijon English. It is very diferent from English of the mainlanders. To me, it sounds more like English of a japanese native speaker. As their ancestors were from Japan they might inherit some japanese accent from their ancestors.

When they moved to Hawaii, some had to move to the mainland bacause more japanese came in Hawaii than expected. Then, they made a small comunity there. But as their poplation was very small, it seemed to be the best way for them to accept american culture as it was. Now most japanese american people have american style of living and dont know much about japanese cluture.

Their population in Hawaii was big enough to keep their own culture. So they are more related to Japanese culture than japanese people in the mainland. Thats very interesting to me.