 | The U.S. 2000 Census - My View of It Some comments about working on the United States 2000 Census. I was just one of the many that went door to door. A few of my views about the census. |
 | Asian Pride - Got Rice? Got Rice? - by some Chinese Dude in Texas vietnam repressenting... ...Much respect to all my Asian folks.. China, Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Indonesia, Mongolia, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Hmong, India, Nepal, and even the Phillipines. Got Rice Bitch? FYI == tupace's "Changes" sampled Bruce Hornsby and The Range's "The Way It Is", and actually alot of hip-hop or R&B artist took or sampled someone else's beat. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. They include sub-ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Pakistani Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans and others whose national origin is from the Asian continent. In Oxford dictionary, "Asian person" in the United States is sometimes thought of as a person of East Asian descent. In the US Census people who originate from the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent are classified as part of the Asian race. For Confused Filipinos: In the 2000--2010 U.S. Census the term "'Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander' refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa or other Pacific Islands. ... They are of Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian cultural backgrounds." The US Census counts Indigenous Australians and Maori, the natives of New Zealand, as part of the Pacific Islander race. The U.S. Census Bureau counts Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Indonesian Americans, and Taiwanese Americans as Asian Americans even though they have ethnic origins from islands bordering the Pacific Ocean and the former two are Austronesians also. Some genetic studies, based upon very small samples of the population, have begun to provide clues to the origins of Filipino people. Much remains to be learned by larger studies of valid statistical significance about the ancestry of the various Austronesian Philippine ethnic groups. A Stanford University study conducted during 2001 revealed that Y-chromosome Haplogroup O3-M122 (labeled as "Haplogroup L" in this study) predominates among Filipino males. This particular haplogroup is also predominant among Chinese and Korean males. That finding is consistent with the theory that people migrated from China south into the Philippines. Another haplogroup, Haplogroup O1a-M119 (labeled as "Haplogroup H" in this study), is also found among Filipinos. The rates of Haplogroup O1a are highest among the Taiwanese Aborigines. Overall, the genetic frequencies found among Filipinos point to the Ami tribe of Taiwan as their nearest genetic relative.[9] A 2002 China Medical University study indicated that certain Filipinos shared a particular gene marker that is also found among Taiwanese aborigines and Indonesians, and concluded that Taiwan aborigines are of Austronesian derivation.[10] A 2003 University of the Philippines study based on 50 participants each from the islands of Luzon and Cebu provided some insight into the various places of origin of early Filipinos. Some rare genetic markers were found which are shared by people from the different parts of Central and East Asia, reinforcing their mainland Asian origins. [11] |
 | Alaska Race and ancestry According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 75% of Alaska residents are white. 15.6% are American Indian or Alaska Native, the largest proportion of any state. Multiracial/Mixed-Race people are the third largest group of people in the state, totaling 6.9% of the population. The largest self-reported ancestry groups in the state are German (16.6%), Alaska Native or American Indian (15.6%), Irish (10.8%), British (9.6%), American (5.7%), and Norwegian (4.2%). The vast sparsely populated regions of northern and western Alaska are primarily inhabited by Alaska Natives, who are also numerous in the southeast. Anchorage, Fairbanks, and other parts of south-central and southeast Alaska have many whites of northern and western European ancestry. The Wrangell-Petersburg area has many residents of Scandinavian ancestry and the Aleutians contain a large Filipino population. Most of the state's black population lives in Anchorage, though Fairbanks also has a sizable black population. Languages Russian Orthodox church in Sitka, Alaska.According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 85.7% of Alaska residents aged 5 and older speak English at home. The next most common languages are Spanish (2.88%), Yupik (2.87%), Tagalog (1.54%), and Iñupiaq (1.06%).[17] A total of 5.2% of Alaskans speak one of the state's 22 indigenous languages, known locally as Native languages. Religion Alaska has been identified, along with Pacific Northwest states Washington and Oregon, as being the least religious in the U.S.[18] According to statistics collected by the Association of Religion Data Archives, only about 39% of Alaska residents were members of religious congregations. Evangelical Protestants had 78,070 members, Roman Catholics had 54,359, and mainline Protestants had 37,156.[19] After Catholics, the largest single denominations were Southern Baptists with 22,959, Orthodox with 20,000, and Mormons with 19,019.[19] The large Eastern Orthodox population is a result of early Russian colonization and missionary work among Alaska Natives.[20] In 1795, the First Russian Orthodox Church was established in Kodiak. Intermarriage with Alaskan Natives helped the Russian immigrants integrate into society. As a result, more and more Russian Orthodox churches[21] gradually became established within Alaska. Alaska also has the largest Quaker population (by percentage) of any state.[22] In 2003 there were 3,000 Jews in Alaska.[23] Economy The Trans-Alaska Pipeline transports oil, Alaska's most important export, from the North Slope to ValdezThe 2005 gross state product was $39.9 billion. Its per-capita GSP for 2005 was $60,079, 3rd in the nation. Alaska's economy relies heavily on petroleum extraction, with more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from this industry. Alaska's main export product (excluding oil and natural gas) is seafood, |
 | Lake Charles Lucinda Williams Cover Lake Charles is the fifth largest incorporated city in the US state of Louisiana. [1] [2] It is the major cultural and educational center in the southwest region of the state and one of the most important in Acadiana. As of the 2000 U.S. census, Lake Charles' population was 71,757. The city serves as the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish. Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the parishes of Calcasieu and Cameron. It is also part of the larger Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area. The city is considered a major petrochemical refining center, gaming center, and home to McNeese State University and the emerging SOWELA Technical Community College. With over 75 festivals held annually, Lake Charles is referred to as the Festival Capital of Louisiana. |
 | Eliza Dushku-James Belushi - Albanian late Show Albanian Americans are United States citizens of Albanian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 113,661 Americans of full or partial Albanian descent.List of Albanian Americans John Belushi,James Belushi,Eliza Dushku,Joseph J. DioGuardi,Bill Kovach,Ferid Murad |
 | McCain Caught Lying To Boost VP's Experience http://www.doubletalkexpress.wordpress.com http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/676/ We examined Obama's "present" votes in an article when the issue came up during the Democratic primary. It's true that Obama cast roughly 130 present votes from more than 4,000 votes cast during his time in the Illinois legislature. It's also true that Palin earned experience as a governor that Obama doesn't have, but then McCain doesn't have that, either. Here, we'll look at McCain's claim that Palin was in government while Obama was a community organizer. Palin and Obama are fairly close in age, only 2½ years apart. As of this writing, Palin is 44 and Obama just turned 47. According to her biography from the Alaska governor's office, Palin graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987 with a degree in communications-journalism. She then worked as a television sports reporter from 1987 to 1989, according to the Almanac of American Politics. Her sports reporting career was at Anchorage's NBC affiliate KUUT, a fact the station noted in its biography of Palin, who then used her maiden name of Heath. Palin first took elected office in 1992 when she was elected to the city council of Wasilla, a town of 5,469, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. Obama, meanwhile, graduated from Columbia University with his bachelor's degree in 1983. He worked briefly for a business research firm before moving to Chicago to become a community organizer. He worked as a community organizer from 1985 to 1988 before leaving Chicago to attend Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1992, Obama had finished his law degree at Harvard and was directing a statewide voter registration drive. His work there earned him a mention in the annual "40 under 40" list published by Crain's Chicago Business to recognize the city's young leaders. Crain's credited him and a staff of 10 with registering 150,000 new voters. After the drive ended in November 1992, Obama went on to join a Chicago law firm and finish his memoir Dreams from My Father, which was published in 1995. He was elected to the Illinois Legislature in 1996. When Obama talks about his days as a community organizer, he usually is referring to the work he did prior to law school, most notably organizing the community around Atgeld Gardens on the issues of asbestos removal from public housing. For McCain's statement to be true, you would have to consider Obama's voter registration drive work to be community organizing — an arguable point. In addition to that, municipal elections in Wasilla in 1992 were held in the first week in October, so at most Palin had won office for a month while Obama was a community organizer by an arguable definition. Because Obama's best-known days as a community organizer were prior to his graduation from Harvard Law School, from 1985 to 1988, and during those years Palin was graduating from college and working as a sports reporter, we rule McCain's statement False. |
 | Emergency Evacuation Disabled 1965 Hurricane Betsy This clip shows the difficulties faced by a family of a man disabled by polio in evacuating their home because of Hurricane Betsy in September 1965. Still today, millions of Americans who have physical, medical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, emergencies such as fires, floods and acts of terrorism present a real challenge. The same challenge also applies to the elderly and other special needs populations. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina focused the nations attention on the need for emergency planning that includes the most vulnerable members of our communities. Failure to plan evacuations accessible to all citizens left thousands of elderly and disabled New Orleanians stranded in flooded homes, with hundreds dying, while tens of thousands suffered in crowded and chaotic shelters of last resort. Unfortunately, the lack of accessible evacuation planning is not limited to the New Orleans area. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are 35 million Americans over 65, a large number of whom live alone—19 percent of men and 40 percent of women. In addition, more than 54 million Americans have disabilities. Yet there are very few cities that have comprehensive plans to ensure their evacuation in an emergency. This was clipped from the film, A Hurricane Called Betsy, produced after the hurricane by the Department of Defenses Office of Civil Defense. The entire film is available on the Internet Archive. |
 | GurlTalkkTV-Why Black Men Are Dating Other Races - Pt. 1 This special series explores some of the reasons why black men are beginning to date outside their race more frequently. Please remember that it is all perspective and there is no true right or wrong answer to this ever growing phenomenon. Interracial dating is defined as marriage or sexual relations between individuals of different races. According to the U.S. Census, in 2000 there were 1,432,908 Hispanic Origin-white marriages.[18] , 504,119 Asian-white marriages, 287,576 black-white marriages, 97,822 Hispanic Origin-black marriages, 40,317 Asian-Hispanic Origin[19] marriages, and 31,271 Asian-black marriages. Today the vast majority of African-Americans possess varying degrees of European and Native American admixture; some estimates put average African-American possession of European admixture at 25% with figures as high as 50% in the Northeast and less than 10% in the south. A recent study by Mark D. Shriver of a European-American sample found that the average admixture in the white population is 0.7% African and 3.2% Native American. However, 70% of the sample had no African admixture. The other 30% had African admixture ranging from 2% to 20% with an average of 2.3%. By extrapolating these figures to the whole population some scholars suggest that up to 74 million European-Americans may have African admixture in the same range (2-20%). |
 | Land of Opportunity...Who's Next. National Homeless Estimates: 700,000 per night; 2 million/year. (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 1999). Thirty-one million Americans now live in hunger or on the edge of hunger. (State Government Responses to the Food Assistance Gap 2000, Third Annual Report and 50 State Survey, December 2000). One in five people in a soup kitchen line is a child (America's Second Harvest, Hunger 1997: The Faces & Facts). In 1999, approximately 12 million American children were hungry or at risk of hunger (United States Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, Fall 2000). Families are the largest and fastest growing segment of the homeless population. New York City officials report a record of 6,252 families with a total of 20, 655 members are lodging nightly in city shelters, with rapid increase. (Use of Shelters By Families Sets Record in City, New York Times; Metropolitan Desk, August 1, 2001). In 2000, requests for emergency food assistance from families with children increased by 16% in American cities over the past year, the highest rate of increase since the recession of 1991 (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities, December 2000). Nearly 1 in 5 children (more than 12 million) in the U.S. live in poverty (U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, October 2000 Update). The U.S. child poverty rate is higher than that of most other industrialized nations. In 1999, more than half of all food stamp recipients, 9.3 million people were children (Children's Defense Fund, Poverty Matters: The Cost of Child Poverty in America, 2000). Nearly 9 million children in the U.S. live in working poor families (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, The Poverty Despite Work Handbook, 1999). In its 1998 survey of 30 cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that the homeless population was 49% African-American, 32% Caucasian, 12% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 3% Asian (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1998). 46% of cities surveyed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1998). Research indicates that 40% of homeless men have served in the armed forces, as compared to 34% of the general adult male population (Rosenheck, Robert, Homeless Veterans, in Homelessness in America, 1996). Approximately 20-25% of the single adult homeless population suffers from some form of severe and persistent mental illness (Koegel, Paul, The Causes of Homelessness, Homelessness in America, 1996, Oryx Press.). According to the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, only 5-7% of homeless persons with mental illness require institutionalization; most can live in the community with the appropriate supportive housing options (Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, 1992). Recent research indicates that even mild under-nutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth may lead to reductions in physical growth and affect brain development (The Links Between Nutrition and Cognitive Development of Children, 1998, Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy). There were record levels of homelessness in New York after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. (New Wave of the Homeless Floods Cities' Shelters, The New York Times; National Desk, December 18, 2001) |
 | GurlTalkkTV-Why Black Women Are Dating Other Races - Pt. 1 Part 1 of Why Black Women Are Dating Other Races begins the exploration of the reasons why black women are more frequently dating outside their race. Please remember that it is all perspective and there is no true right or wrong answer to this ever growing phenomenon. Interracial dating is defined as marriage or sexual relations between individuals of different races. According to the U.S. Census, in 2000 there were 1,432,908 Hispanic Origin-white marriages.[18] , 504,119 Asian-white marriages, 287,576 black-white marriages, 97,822 Hispanic Origin-black marriages, 40,317 Asian-Hispanic Origin[19] marriages, and 31,271 Asian-black marriages. Today the vast majority of African-Americans possess varying degrees of European and Native American admixture; some estimates put average African-American possession of European admixture at 25% with figures as high as 50% in the Northeast and less than 10% in the south. A recent study by Mark D. Shriver of a European-American sample found that the average admixture in the white population is 0.7% African and 3.2% Native American. However, 70% of the sample had no African admixture. The other 30% had African admixture ranging from 2% to 20% with an average of 2.3%. By extrapolating these figures to the whole population some scholars suggest that up to 74 million European-Americans may have African admixture in the same range (2-20%) |
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