Islander

It is usually the islander who sees the mainland most clearly.

Tagalog has artistic value, like a carved Pacific Islander statue, Mr. and Mrs. Matsuo opine.

I'm an islander.

Across the NCAA's three divisions, 2% of student athletes identified as Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea franchise is very stimulating. As a Filipino, I am from an archipelagic country, and I can relate to the islander culture and supposedly brown people of magical Earthsea. Publishers market this franchise as sci-fi, but it seems also fantasy—maybe "science fantasy" as some call it.

As a teenage Lulu Islander, I kept different hamsters as pets. I had a large long-haired bear-like hamster whom I named Jabberwocky. I had another hamster, blond and short-haired, whom I named Twiki.

I had cared for three guinea pigs as a teenage Lulu Islander. Their names were Blondie, Thumper, and Candy.

I talked to two Lulu Islander neighbours today, the 15th of April of 2023. Michael the Dane-French told me how his siblings telecommunicating from the Atlantic coast lambasted him about his personal stories about extraterrestrials. (Elon Musk the multibillionaire still worries about Fermi's Paradox.) Then, I saw Derek the Filipino telling me about a great lumberjack's café that also serves Chinese breakfast.

Native Fijians are Melanesians, a kind of Australoid people, but they speak a Malayo-Polynesian language, perhaps adopted anciently from islander neighbours who were not Melanesians. My neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, know a bit of Fijian. They like learning English, but I say to them, "Your Fijian is much more beautiful!"

Asian and Pacific Islander men have the fewest heart disease deaths.