‘Filipino’ finally counts in US census
By Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 21:51:00 12/16/2009 Filed Under: Migration
MANILA, Philippines — The word “Filipino” will appear as a separate race category in the 2010 national census in the United States, according to recent reports of Filipino-American media outlets.
This means Filipinos in the US will no longer be counted under the general “Asian” category like in the 2000 census.
“They now have a box of their own to describe their ethnicity as a separate and distinct group of people from Asia living in the US,” said the Filipino Reporter newspaper early this week.
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This is excellent news, I’ve always been very curious about Filipinos in the US (More than a quarter of my family belongs to this as probably most Filipinos). Maybe this would clear up many misconceptions we have about Fil-Ams.