Editing Micronesia (section)

===Immigrant groups===
====East, South, and Southeast Asian people====
{{See also|Japanese settlement in Palau|Japanese settlement in the Federated States of Micronesia|Koreans in Micronesia|Chinese in Palau|Filipinos in Palau}}
There are large [[East Asia|East]], [[South Asia|South]] and [[Southeast Asia|Southeast]] Asian communities found across certain Micronesian countries that are either immigrants, foreign workers or descendants of either one, most migrated to the islands during the 1800s and 1900s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDg9oAkwsXAC|title=Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West|first=R. G.|last=Crocombe|date=1 January 2007|publisher=IPS Publications, University of the South Pacific|via=Google Books|isbn=9789820203884}}</ref> According to the 2010 census results Guam was 26.3% [[Overseas Filipino|Filipino]], 2.2% [[Korean diaspora|Korean]], 1.6% [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]] and 2% other Asian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/guam/ethnic_groups.html|title=Guam Ethnic groups - Demographics|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref> The 2010 census showed the Northern Mariana Islands was 50% Asian of which 35.3% were Filipino, 6.8% Chinese, 4.2% Korean and 3.7% other Asian (mainly [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese]], [[Bangladeshi diaspora|Bangladeshi]] and [[Thai people|Thai]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/northern_mariana_islands/demographics_profile.html|title=Northern Mariana Islands Demographics Profile 2016|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref> The 2010 census for the Federated States of Micronesia showed 1.4% were Asian while statistics for Nauru showed 8% of Nauruans were Chinese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/federated_states_of_micronesia/ethnic_groups.html|title=Federated States of Micronesia Ethnic groups - Demographics|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/nauru/ethnic_groups.html|title=Nauru Ethnic groups - Demographics|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref> The 2005 census results for Palau showed 16.3% were Filipino, 1.6% Chinese, 1.6% Vietnamese and 3.4% other Asian (mostly Bangladeshi, Japanese and Korean).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/palau/ethnic_groups.html|title=Palau Ethnic groups - Demographics|work=indexmundi.com}}</ref>

Japanese rule in Micronesia also led to Japanese people settling the islands and marrying native spouses. [[Kessai Note]], the former president of the [[Marshall Islands]] has partial Japanese ancestry by way of his paternal grandfather, and [[Manny Mori|Emanuel Mori]], the former president of the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], is descended from one of the first settlers from Japan, [[Mori Koben|Koben Mori]].

A significant number of Micronesians were shown to have paternal genetic relations with Japanese [[Haplogroup D-M55]]. [[Genetic testing]] found that 9.5% of males from Micronesia as well as 0.2% in [[East Timor]]<ref name=Hammer2006>{{cite journal | last1 = Hammer | first1 = Michael F. | last2 = Karafet | first2 = Tatiana M. | last3 = Park | first3 = Hwayong | last4 = Omoto | first4 = Keiichi | last5 = Harihara | first5 = Shinji | last6 = Stoneking | first6 = Mark | last7 = Horai | first7 = Satoshi | year = 2006 | title = Dual origins of the Japanese: Common ground for hunter-gatherer and farmer Y chromosomes | journal = Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 51 | number = 1 | pages = 47–58 | doi = 10.1007/s10038-005-0322-0 | pmid = 16328082| doi-access = free }}</ref> carry what is believed to reflect recent admixture from Japan. That is, D-M116.1 (D1b1) is generally believed to be a primary subclade of D-M64.1 (D1b), possibly as a result of the [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies|Japanese military occupation of Southeast Asia]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="tumonggor"/>

====European people====
The 2010 census results of Guam showed 7.1% were white while the 2005 census for Nauru showed 8% were European. Smaller numbers at 1.9% in Palau and 1.8% in the Northern Mariana Islands were recorded as "white". In conjunction to the European communities there are large amounts of mixed Micronesians, some of which have European ancestry.

[[File:Languages of Micronesia.en.svg|thumb|upright=1.65|Languages of Micronesia.]]