Be Proud if you are a Filipino-American

With 2020 Census ending by October 31, 2020 my daughter Ditas who is currently Director of the California 2020 Census and her daughter, Carenna who is multi-racial ( half-Filipino, 1/4 Italian and 1/4 Irish) proudly listed in their 2020 census forms, they are Filipino-Americans.

Filipino Americans are the largest group of Asian Americans in 10 of the 13 western states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming; Filipino Americans are also the largest group of Asian Americans in South Dakota. Filipino immigrants have dispersed across the United States, gravitating toward economic and professional opportunities, independent of geographic location. Among the 1,814,000 Philippines-born Filipino Americans, the states with the largest concentrations are California (44.8%), Hawaii (6.2%), New Jersey (4.8%), Texas (4.8%), and Illinois (4.7%),

In 2008, 35% of Filipino immigrants in the United States lived in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City metropolitan areas; by 2011, the percentage of the total Filipino immigrant population in the U.S. in those metropolitan areas was 33%. In 2010, Filipino Americans constituted the largest Asian American group within five of the nation's twenty largest metropolitan areas: San Diego, Riverside, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and Houston.

Ditas is working very hard that all Californians are counted this Census year, specifically Filipino-Americans. Be Proud of your Heritage if you are a Filipino-American.

Again here's one of the articles on Ditas Census work as published in the USA Inquirer in case you have not read it.

https://usa.inquirer.net/56853/californias-fil-am-census-head-fights-for-own-community-to-get-counted

Meanwhile, enjoy these two videos on Growing up as Filipino-Americans :

https://youtu.be/x5bY6yDGPhg

https://youtu.be/7baldoHlsMU