---- "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote: 
> >Maori:
> >        Pakeha        Some translate as
> >                            Cooked head
> >                            Pale skin.
> I always understood the 'literal' translation of Pakeha was 'white devil' 

.Hawaiian "pake"  --->  A Chinese.   "lolo" ---> Crazy.
 "pakelolo" --->  pot ... Supposedly because the Chinese
introduced the killer weed to the Islands. If so, the other 
ethnic groups had pretty well closed the gap by the 70s
when I lived there.
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