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Whereas Chatterbox seems to share the blissfully indifferent sensibilities of the Polynesian islander Queequeg, celebrated thusly by Herman Melville in Moby Dick : "Savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.
Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
The first Polynesian settlers brought much of what they needed, however, from pigs and chickens to bananas and taro, the root crop that would sustain them.
Seems there's something there called the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which gives out money to Hawaiians of Polynesian origin, and to no one else.
The languages discussed here are what are usually called the Indo-European family; similar family trees could be drawn for the Semitic languages, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Bantu, Malayo-Polynesian, and so on.