David Le

Section A01

Week 1

Response to “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Census 2010”

                I grew up in a community that was dominantly filled with Hispanic and African demographic. There were very few Asian and Caucasians in my area. I just thought that there weren't that many Asians in California but when I arrived in Davis I was culturally shocked to how many undergrad and grad students were Asian. The schools I attended back at home there were about less than twelve percent students that were Asian. And If I have read that California had the largest Asian population in the 2010 census before I attended Davis it would've been somewhat hard to believe. Another thing that caught my attention was 40.6 million as the projected number of U.S residents that will identify themselves as Asian.

Question: Just what does this say about Asians? Would be still be considered a minority by then? What new issues will we have to face?