Figure 5.18: Store owned by a prosperous ethnic Chinese retailer on the island of Bora Bora in French Polynesia. The population of the island is overwhelmingly Polynesian. Only 0.8 percent of the people are Europeans, 6.6 are “Demis” (a mixture of white and Polynesian), and less than 0.5 percent are Asian. Yet this store and many others in the archipelagoes of the Pacific are owned by persons of Chinese heritage.
(Courtesy of Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov.)