The number of people of both Latino and Asian American or Pacific Islander heritage has more than doubled in the last 20 years yet it remains an often ignored demographic, researchers at UCLA said Wednesday.
The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute analyzed Census Bureau data within the last two decades. This included the 2000 census count as well as American Community Survey 5-year estimates on population characteristics from 2010 and 2022. Their analysis indicates people in the United States who identify as Latino and Asian American or Pacific Islander , or 'AAPI Latinos ,' rose from 350,000 to 886,000 in that period.
When it came to which culture was more dominant in her household, it was more of a draw.'It definitely felt like... I wasn't Mexican enough to be considered Mexican or wasn't Chinese enough to be considered Chinese,' Yuen said. 'And because my parents had raised me with a pretty Western approach, honestly, I felt like growing up, I identified mostly as American.'She was either questioned about her ethnic makeup or treated as fully Asian.
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