2010 concensus

yesterday i received my 2010 census. i have already started to fill this out and am waiting for person 2 and person 3 in my household to fill out their sections so i can mail it in. in the section that covers race, i was happy to see that korean was listed, alongside chinese, filipino, japanese and vietnamese. if you are thai or from hmong or laos, you have to write your race in. admittedly, for a moment, i did feel sort of mainstream. i used to be a write in. we used to just all be lumped in as "asian" and i would feel slightly uncomfortable being grouped in with ____ and _____. koreans aren't guerrilla or grassroots anymore. flatscreens and figure skaters have really put us on the map, apparently.