Ah - thank u @scottkurashige I’ve been looking for this cite for over a week.
https://twitter.com/scottkurashige/status/1449473610561822722
Read Scott’s thread for good analysis but what jumps out at me is the finding that roughly 3/4 of AAPI identify with a pan-ethnic racial identity, and that 20% of those surveyed feel more kinship with the term in the COVID era.
That’s a huge shift, and we see increases across the board (of course by varying amounts) across distinct ethnic backgrounds, citizenship status, and political affiliation.
What this says to me is that people find value in pan-ethnic identity when there is context for it. To me, that says that pan-ethnic identity has inherent value that only struggles to be recognized when there is lack of discourse around it or access to our history of its value.
In other words, this is an education / discourse problem, not a problem that pan-ethnic identity inherently has no value or meaning.
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