The problem caused when extrapolating legal terms of "race" from our western cognitive perspective, is that the historical explanation of cultural competition and genocide becomes too inarticulate.  Race has become a legal term more for the politics of governing land than for documenting the history of geographically distinct peoples interacting with each other throughout human history.  The legal tool of race can ably dismiss the "inalienable rights" of any people, their societies, and governing cultures.  As long as this legal tool remains a bludgeon, future generations are destined to continually to resent, hate, and fight each other.  The antithesis of aloha is race.  Western colonists brought race to Hawaii.