{"id":693125,"date":"2010-03-16T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2010-03-16T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:00:08","slug":"late-night-census-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693125","title":{"rendered":"Late Night:  Census Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"375\" height=\"276\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widget.nbc.com\/videos\/nbcshort_at.swf?CXNID=1000004.10045NXC&#038;widID=4727a250e66f9723&#038;clipID=274571&#038;showID=61\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>So my census form came yesterday and I filled it out and there are some pretty interesting questions. Like how many people live in your house, what are their names, races and relationships to you.  &#8220;Unmarried partner &#8221; is a new option. There are lots of options for race (versus ethnicity) available, including &#8220;other\/fill in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/14351\/the-2010-census-race-and-denigration\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a> points out that this will be the first US Census since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/sci\/techresources\/Human_Genome\/elsi\/minorities.shtml\">US Department of Energy Human Genome Project announced that race does not exist. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/taiwaneseamerican.org\/census2010\/\">There&#8217;s a push in the Taiwanese community<\/a> to to have members check &#8220;other Asian&#8221; and fill in &#8220;Taiwanese.&#8221; I noticed that &#8220;Armenian,&#8221; a huge segment of my neighborhood population was not an option, though Pakistani was (under Asian).<\/p>\n<p>I actually got a little uncomfortable having to fill out the names of my household members. Like, why? I can see giving up that I have roommate(s) and I sort of understand why &#8220;race&#8221; question (though what if you are of mixed race?), but why do I need to say their names? How will that help matters?<\/p>\n<p>Oh and I saw <em>The Runaways<\/em>. It was great.<\/p>\n<div class='hitEmbed_left'><object width=\"375\" height=\"226\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OTpdXKocacQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/census\/\" rel=\"tag\">Census<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73426&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_73426\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none;' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my census form came yesterday and I filled it out and there are some pretty interesting questions. Like how many people live in your house, what are their names, races and relationships to you. &#8220;Unmarried partner &#8221; is a new option. There are lots of options for race (versus ethnicity) available, including &#8220;other\/fill in.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ujr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}