News source: http://tinyurl.com/yabvvj6 Youtube link: http://tinyurl.com/yh7k2pl -------------------------------------- Census 2010 is headed for miscount of Taiwanese-Americans February 11, 3:57PM Taiwan Policy Examiner Michael Richardson Taiwan’s longstanding unresolved international status keeps the island out of the United Nations and the World Health Organization and has been described by the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals as caught in “ political purgatory”. Taiwan’s purgatory extends to the United States Census Bureau. Although the Census Bureau is making efforts to avoid an undercount of Taiwan-Americans, a perfect storm exists to cause a miscount. The Office of Management and Budget determines the Census race question resulting in an “ apples and oranges” mixture of skin color, language, and nationality. Persons of Asian heritage are given a list of countries and islands to chose from except individuals from Taiwan. Taiwanese-Americans who wish to be counted must check the “Other Asian” box and then write in Taiwanese. In the 2000 Census, 144,795 persons were counted as Taiwanese--but only on specialized tabulations of Asian respondents. For the general population tally Taiwanese respondents were counted as Chinese. The Taiwanese American Association thinks the 2000 number should have been closer to a million based on information and data from the community. “We strongly believe that the Taiwanese [population] was undercounted in the 1990 and 2000 Census.” Making matters worse are the reported remarks of a Census official last year that in 2000 a half-million people actually self-identified as Taiwanese. The Republic of China in-exile cited the higher number on the official Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office website. “David Choy, the Asian-Pacific Specialist at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Seattle Regional Office said, that in the 2000 US Census 500,000 people classified themselves as “Taiwanese” and filled in the blank space on the census as such.” Regardless if the 2000 Census saw 144,795 or 500,000 Taiwanese, what is a person supposed to do with this year’s form? A check with the Questionnaire Reference Book, the handbook for the Census call-in centers where official answers are provided, has a “strategic ambiguity” as confounding to understand as America’s “acknowledgment” of the “one China” policy. Citizens and Census workers seeking directions on the correct way for a Taiwanese-American to self-identify will not get an easy answer to the Census Bureau’s own “Taiwan question”. “Mark the “Chinese” box if this person indicates their race as “Chinese” or identifies themselves as Cantonese or Chinese-American. In some census tabulations, written entries of Taiwanese are included with Chinese while in others they are shown separately.” --

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