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Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) represent more than sixty distinct ethnicities including Chinese, Cambodian, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Mien, Micronesian, Samoan, South Asian, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese, among many others. Each group is distinguished by different immigration and migration patterns and circumstances, geographical location, socioeconomic status as indexed by wealth, education, and occupation, linguistic traditions, and English language competencies. Give these distinctions, what does Asian really mean aside from originating from the continent or surrounding islands of Asia? And what are the consequences of combining all API ethnicities into the racial group of Asian? |
