Race Relations
One of the most prominent challenges territorial Hawaii had to face was race relations. By the time Hawaii became a territory, much of Hawaii's population was made up of plantation workers from China, Japan, the Philippines and Portugal. There was a substantially large native Hawaiian population that also shared in the work. Their plantation experiences molded Hawaii to become a plantation culture. The Hawaiian Pidgin language was developed on the plantations so they all could understand each other. Buddhism and Shintoism grew to become some of Hawaii's largest religions. Catholicism became Hawaii's largest Christian denomination.
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