Mr. Somebody
Friend Of A Friend
Melanasian is just a word that clearly means black people friend based on the way these friends look. Looking at friends through a modern context as they look now hopefully takes into account the way friends of different ethnic groups have mixed, like in the case of hawaii, the japanese.Only one has African genes. The Melanesians obviously.
Polynesians came from Taiwan and Southeast Asia
A study in 2008 argued that "79% of the Polynesian autosomal gene pool is of East Asian origin and 21% is of Melanesian origin.
I think saying Hawaiians are asian holds more weight.