{"id":2537,"date":"2009-12-16T20:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2009-12-16T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:21:47","slug":"repostfilipino-finally-counts-in-us-census-inquirer-net-philippine-news-for-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/16\/repostfilipino-finally-counts-in-us-census-inquirer-net-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::\u2018Filipino\u2019 finally counts in US census &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u2018Filipino\u2019 finally counts in US census<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Jerome Aning<br \/>\nPhilippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 21:51:00 12\/16\/2009 Filed Under: Migration<br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines &#8212; The word &#8220;Filipino&#8221; 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.<br \/>\nThis means Filipinos in the US will no longer be counted under the general \u201cAsian\u201d category like in the 2000 census.<br \/>\n\u201cThey 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,\u201d said the Filipino Reporter newspaper early this week.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/news\/breakingnews\/view\/20091216-242404\/Filipino-finally-counts-in-US-census\">\u2018Filipino\u2019 finally counts in US census &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is excellent news, I&#8217;ve always been very curious about Filipinos in the US (More than a quarter of my family belongs to this as probably most Filipinos).\u00a0 Maybe this would clear up many misconceptions we have about Fil-Ams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Filipino\u2019 finally counts in US census By Jerome Aning Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 21:51:00 12\/16\/2009 Filed Under: Migration MANILA, Philippines &#8212; The word &#8220;Filipino&#8221; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/16\/repostfilipino-finally-counts-in-us-census-inquirer-net-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::\u2018Filipino\u2019 finally counts in US census &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}