Mele Kalikimaka capture of the islands of Christmas - a warm, happy, plays the role of business in the Pacific Americanized holiday full of symbols from the snow, punctuated the tradition of Northern Europe.
Hawaiian people did not celebrate Christmas, before the arrival of Captain Cook in 1778. It 'was, however, Protestant missionaries from New England, who first arrived in 1820, and introduced Christmas to the people of Hawaii.
The words "Mele Kalikimaka" are a phonetic approximation of the "Merry Christmas". When the missionaries and other Westerners in the first place the task of Christmas in the islands the Hawaiians had difficulty pronouncing Merry Christmas and turned it into words that rolled more easily from their languages.
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