Additional Readings. Disorders of Muscle Tissue Muscular Muscle disorders are caused by disruption of normal innervation, degeneration and replacement of muscle cells, injury, lack of use or disease. Atrophy Muscular atrophy refers to a decrease in size of muscles.
Of the 1,108,229 people living in Hawaii, 23 percent describe themselves as white, 22 percent as Japanese, 20 percent as part Hawaiian, 11 percent as Filipino, four percent as Chinese, two percent as black, and about one percent each as Korean and pure Hawaiian.
The Hawaiian language was once the primary language of the native Hawaiian people. Today, native Hawaiians predominately speak the English language. Another large contributing factor was an 1896 law that required that English be the only medium and basis of instruction in all public and private schools..