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‘White’ federal workers would no longer include Middle Eastern, North African heritage under new Biden plan
The Biden administration is proposing a change to the way it collects data on federal workers that would allow employees to identify themselves as of Middle Eastern or North African descent, instead of identifying themselves as “White.”
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday announced a series of proposed changes to the race/ethnicity data that it has kept since 1977. The OMB said changes are warranted because people’s preferences relating to how they identify themselves have changed.
The OMB said in its proposal that there have been “large societal, political, economic, and demographic shifts in the United States throughout this period,” citing the following examples: increasing racial and ethnic diversity; a growing number of people who identify as more than one race or ethnicity; and changing immigration and migration patterns.
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The Biden-Harris administration is proposing changes to the way race/ethnicity data is collected on federal workers.
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One of those changes would affect current language that requires people to identify themselves as “White” if they have “origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.” But the OMB’s proposed change said many are requesting a new category separate from White people of European descent.
“Presenters advocated for the Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) population to be recognized and respected by becoming a new and distinct minimum reporting category because, for example, many in the MENA community do not share the same lived experience as White people with European ancestry, do not identify as White, and are not perceived as White by others,” the OMB’s proposal said.
The OMB also said a new “MENA” category would “recognize this community.”
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The Office of Management and Budget, headed by Shalanda Young, is proposing changes to the way data is collected on the race and ethnicity of federal workers. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
The goal of the government’s data collection effort is to “ensure the comparability of race and ethnicity across Federal datasets and to maximize the quality of that data by ensuring that the format, language, and procedures for collecting the data are consistent and based on rigorous evidence.”
The OMB proposed other changes to the way the data is collected and presented, including by seeking out race and ethnicity information in a single question. It said many people confuse the two terms and proposed a question that asks for federal workers’ “race or ethnicity.”
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President Biden’s administration is looking to give federal workers more options when it comes to identifying their racial and ethnic background.
The OMB proposed several other wording changes, such as replacing “Far East” with “East Asian” from the definition of “Asian,” and ending use of the terms “majority” and “minority.”
The OMB said those last two terms “may be perceived by some as pejorative and not inclusive.”
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The proposal is not final, and the OMB is seeking public input on these ideas through mid-April.
Elaine Chao responds to Trump’s racist attacks on her Asian American heritage
“Does Coco Chow have anything to do with Joe Biden’s Classified Documents being sent and stored in Chinatown?” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. “Her husband, the Old Broken Crow, is VERY close to Biden, the Democrats, and, of course, China,” the former president added.
In a statement, Chao said, “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation. He doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”
Politico was the first to report Chao’s statement.
Wednesday’s statement is the latest rupture between Trump, who has announced his third bid for the presidency in November, and a key insider in the Republican Party.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, who did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment, told Politico, “People should stop feigning outrage and engaging in controversies that exist only in their heads.”
Chao served as transportation secretary for all four years of Trump’s presidency before announcing her resignation following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.
Chao’s father, James S.C. Chao, founded a successful international shipping company. She immigrated to the United States from Taiwan at age 8 without knowing how to speak English. She went on to graduate from Harvard Business School before working as a transportation banker. She also did stints as a White House fellow, at the Peace Corps, corporate boards and think tanks.
In 2001, Chao became the first Asian American woman to be named to a Cabinet post, serving as labor secretary under George W. Bush for eight years.
McConnell did not initially support Trump’s 2016 candidacy but aligned himself with the party’s standard bearer once he secured the nomination. The two men developed a working relationship that produced legislation on tax cuts and the confirmations of a bevy of judicial appointments but the alliance was severed following the attack on the Capitol and a string of election losses the senator essentially blamed on Trump.
Trump posted a racist interpretation of Chao’s last name in a social media post last October, after McConnell helped pass legislation to avert a government shutdown. In that post, Trump also said McConnell “has a DEATH WISH!”
Before that, Trump called Chao “crazy” and said McConnell helped and her “family get rich on China!”
Chao has largely avoided responding to Trump, and urged journalists not to quote his inflammatory rhetoric. The “media continuously repeats his racist taunt,” Chao told CNN in December 2022. “And so, he’s trying to get a rise out of us. He says all sorts of outrageous things, and I don’t make a point of answering any one of them.”
McConnell also issued a rare, and pointed, criticism of Trump that month, telling NBC News that some of the Republicans’ midterm losses were a result of the candidates Trump had promoted. McConnell added, “I think the former president’s political clout has diminished.”
But Chao hasn’t been the sole focus of Trump’s seemingly racist remarks about Asian Americans.
As the coronavirus pandemic amped up across the United States and the world in March 2020, Trump publicly referred to it as the “Chinese virus.” Trump’s use of the phrase “Chinese virus” on social media was linked to a spike in anti-Asian hashtags, according to a study co-written by an epidemiology professor in California.
At a campaign rally in June 2020, he added another racist nickname to the mix, this time calling covid, “Kung flu.”
“The fact that he got the crowd so riled up was just chilling,” Chris Lu, a Chinese American who served as Cabinet secretary in the Obama White House, said that summer. “In that really primal desire to get a rise out of the crowd and get that affirmation he wants, he went to this place that has such bad consequences for Asian Americans broadly and for Asian American kids in particular. It’s a joke to him but not to us.”
In November 2022, Trump attacked Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.), writing on social media that the last name of the Republican, who is talked about as a potential Trump challenger for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, “Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?”
Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R) said Trump’s comment — which was false, Youngkin is not Asian — was “racist,” and “Asian hate.”
Chao’s remarks Wednesday stand in stark contrast to her tenure in the Trump administration, in which she supported the president even during some of his most tumultuous moments. In August 2017, she was at the president’s side in the lobby of Trump Tower, visiting New York ostensibly to discuss infrastructure. Trump said she was doing a “fabulous job.”
Yet those remarks became infamous when Trump veered off topic to discuss far-right violence that had engulfed Charlottesville days before, saying a group of white-supremacist demonstrators included “very fine people” and that blame for the violence lay with “both sides.”
Liz Goodwin contributed to this report.
French baguette added to UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage
The baking news sent France into a frenzy of memes — and members of the French UNESCO delegation celebrated by hoisting baguettes into the air as the decision was announced in Rabat, Morocco.
UNESCO has just made the French baguette part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity, and the French delegation is wildin out there pic.twitter.com/s1UbutiVBZ
— Jules Darmanin (@JulesDrmnn) November 30, 2022
The baguette — which French President Emmanuel Macron once described as “250 grams of magic and perfection” — is an integral part of French culture and culinary habits, with many French people stopping by bakeries daily to pick up a warm loaf before heading home for dinner.
France’s baking industry has led a years-long campaign to secure this status on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
France’s culture minister, Rima Abdul Malak, said the decision is a “great recognition for our artisans and these unifying places that are our bakeries.”
Matin, midi et soir, la baguette de pain fait partie du quotidien des Français. Ce savoir-faire artisanal vient d’être inscrit au patrimoine immatériel de l’humanité par l’UNESCO. Belle reconnaissance pour nos artisans et ces lieux fédérateurs que sont nos boulangeries! 🥖🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/dkAGPD5PiR
— Rima Abdul Malak (@RimaAbdulMalak) November 30, 2022
Olivia Gregoire, minister for small and medium-size enterprises, trade and tourism, celebrated the decision as a milestone for France and its baking industry. It honors “French savoir-vivre,” “our traditions of sharing and conviviality and above all the know-how of our artisan bakers,” she said.
French bakeries produce some 6 billion baguettes a year, according to French newspaper Le Monde. But across the country, particularly in rural areas, bakeries have for the past few decades been disappearing at a rate of about 400 per year, leading to warnings from the industry that more needs to be done to protect the know-how of baguette-making.
“The baguette is very few ingredients — flour, water, salt, yeast — and yet each baguette is unique, and the essential ingredient every time is the baker’s skill,” Dominique Anract, president of the National Confederation of French Bakery and Patisserie, said after the decision.
French people celebrated the decision and their love for baguette.
Claire Dinhut, 26, a French American food and travel content creator, said via email: “The baguette is SUCH a staple of French identity so it makes me really happy to find out that it was added to the world heritage list.”
“I rarely eat baguette outside of France because eating a baguette without the French ‘ritual’ of walking to your local (and favorite) bakery is just eating bread. Eating a baguette is SO much more than that,” said Dinhut, who lives in London. “There is nothing comparable to the first rip off of a fresh baguette. It’s perfect on its own, with a fat slab of salted butter, sweet jam, a great chunk of cheese… The list goes on and on.”
UNESCO recognizes traditions, crafts and items as part of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage because of “the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted” through them “from one generation to the next.”
In this case, the nomination drafted by France highlighted the fact that baguettes “generate modes of consumption and social practices that differentiate them from other types of bread, such as daily visits to bakeries to purchase the loaves and specific display racks to match their long shape.”
“The baguette is consumed in many contexts, including during family meals, in restaurants, and in work and school cafeterias,” it added.
Sacheen Littlefeather Accused of Lying About Native Heritage – The Hollywood Reporter
Three weeks after Sacheen Littlefeather’s passing, a writer has come forward with claims that the celebrated activist and former actress spent her life fraudulently posing as a Native American. Littlefeather died on Oct. 2 of metastasized breast cancer at age 75.
In a piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Open Forum opinion section on Saturday, Jacqueline Keeler (Diné/Dakota) alleges that Littlefeather, who cemented her pop culture legacy when she took the stage at the 1973 Academy Awards to decline the best actor Oscar on Marlon Brando’s behalf, was of Mexican and white descent. During her lifetime, Littlefeather, whose birth name was Marie Louise Cruz, identified as Apache and Yaqui on her father’s side. (That her mother was white has not been disputed.)
Keeler writes that according to her research of historical documents, the lineage of Littlefeather’s father traces to Mexico, not the Apache and Yaqui territories in Arizona, and that there are no records of family members’ enrollment in any tribes based in the land now known as the United States. Furthermore, Keeler interviewed Littlefeather’s younger sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, who said that Littlefeather lied about their family and invented her Native origins in an attempt to stand out in the entertainment industry. The sisters told Keeler that they had kept quiet, thinking Littlefeather’s fame would fade, but that they were troubled by seeing her “venerated as a saint.” They added that they learned of Littlefeather’s death through the news. On Friday, they appeared at Littlefeather’s funeral mass, where Cruz took to the pulpit and told the assembled mourners that their sister had lived with a lifelong mental illness and maligned her parents with her accounts of a difficult, abusive childhood.
In her column, Keeler writes that she began investigating Littlefeather’s history as part of her ongoing research into “Pretendians,” a list she began compiling in January 2021 of individuals who falsely claim Native identity. Keeler and her list are considered controversial within the Indigenous community, with some arguing that her research methods are unclear and that she has doxxed individuals without strong evidence. “I don’t want to give Keeler’s shtick oxygen,” tweeted Rutherford Falls showrunner and co-creator Sierra Ornelas on Saturday after Keeler’s column was published.
In an email response to The Hollywood Reporter, Keeler said she spoke to Littlefeather’s sisters last week for more than six hours. Keeler noted that this marked her first conversation with them and that she came into contact with the sisters after Cruz noticed Keeler’s tweets sharing research and documentation about their father’s family. According to Keeler, these tweets spurred Cruz to contact the White Mountain Apache’s Office of Vital Records before the interviews with Keeler took place.
This summer, Littlefeather returned to public consciousness when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences formally apologized to her for the mistreatment and industry blacklisting she experienced after the 1973 Oscars. (She was first accused of being a performer for hire posing as a Native American back then.) Littlefeather was feted at the Academy Museum during an evening of reflection and celebration of Native American culture in September, two weeks before her death.
The Academy declined to comment on the latest accusations.
Oct. 22, 3:35 p.m. Updated with Keeler’s email response.
LA’s Chinese American Museum celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
Chinese American Museum celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
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The Chinese American Museum at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument stands as Southern California’s first and only museum dedicated to sharing the history of the Chinese American experience in Los Angeles.
Opened in December 2003, the museum is the site of Los Angeles’ original Chinatown, reflecting the development of an immigrant history that began over 150 years ago when the first major Chinese settlement was documented in Los Angeles.
In the years after its opening, Chinese American families and businesses donated their cherished possessions to the museum. CAM received artifacts ranging from antique furniture and children’s toys, to herbal store furnishings and supplies, to traditional wedding gowns. Museum staff were entrusted with delicate, faded photographs and yellowing letters from loved ones in China. Elderly Chinese Americans shared their memories of growing up in Old Chinatown, which were recorded on audio tapes.
The museum’s grand opening was made possible through generous support from the City of Los Angeles, the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, community-based organizations, public and private grantors, and countless donors, contributors and volunteers.
To learn more, visit the Chinese American Museum’s website by clicking or tapping here.
Capturing the heritage of the International Space Station before it crashes into the ocean
The space station will join the fragments of Russia’s Mir and NASA’s Skylab in the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area, home to more than 263 pieces of intentionally sunk space debris.
The ultimate fate of the space station has been part of the plan since before the modules ever launched. But when the space station deorbits, it will be the end of an era. And part of its legacy will be preserved through space archaeology.
What’s more, by understanding the ways that astronauts have used the space and tools on the space station, this input could be used in the design of future spacecraft and habitats during exploration of the moon and Mars.
First of its kind
The very first archaeological study ever performed outside of Earth was the brainchild of Justin St. P. Walsh, associate professor of art history and archaeology at Chapman University in California, and Alice Gorman, associate professor within Flinders University’s College of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. They began the creative process of considering the space station from an archaeological perspective in December 2015.
With the help of the ISS National Laboratory’s Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and implementation partner Axiom Space, Walsh and Gorman were finally able to see the first step of their investigation become a reality this year.
“ISS is such an important site for the development of humanity living in space,” Walsh said. “If this were a site on Earth, we would do everything we could to preserve it. But that isn’t technically feasible, so the next thing archaeologists do, like when sites are going to be flooded due to the construction of a dam, for example, is document everything we can about the site, and preserve that documentation and any samples” for posterity.
The project began on the space station in January. The experiment, called the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment, or SQuARE, is a simple one.
Archaeologists often set up a test pit at a site of interest, dividing it into a grid of squares for excavation purposes.
However, it’s not possible to dig through layers of the space station — or for scientists to just zip up there for a study.
Astronauts placed 3-foot (1-meter) tape squares on walls throughout the space station and are photographing them each day for 60 days to show how these areas change over time.
The findings could emulate the way layers of soil preserve different moments in time at archaeological sites.
The squares have been placed at the galley table where the crew eats, across from the latrine, a workstation and two different science stations, as well as a place chosen by the crew. The six sites capture what daily life is like in zero gravity.
Documenting a slice of life in space
Heritage sites are often thought of as being places of historical importance on Earth — but they exist in space, too, Gorman said.
The Apollo landing sites on the moon are a prime example, and as we leave human and robotic footprints behind on places like Mars, those places of significance will spread.
“Nobody’s collected data like this before, so we don’t have it for Mir and Skylab,” Gorman said.
European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer tweeted his excitement about participating in the experiment in February.
“Space archaeology with SQuARES. Using a ruler & colour chart we document the use & changes of defined areas on the #ISS to help design future spaceships & habitats,” Maurer wrote in his tweet.
It could be especially useful when trying to determine where to place what Gorman refers to as “gravity surrogates,” or the bungee cords, clips and self-fastener strips that are essential for life in the absence of gravity.
“We’re expecting to find aspects of adapting to life in that kind of environment that nobody knew about before,” Gorman said.
“If you were an archaeologist excavating a Viking longhouse, you might have ideas about what works and doesn’t work about them, but you don’t have the opportunity to knock on the door of a Viking and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a few ideas here for the way you design your next little village.’ But we have that opportunity.”
A futuristic confluence
The SQuARE experiment will wrap on March 22. When the crew, including NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Mark Vande Hei, return to Earth this spring, the researchers will get a chance to talk to them.
Gorman and Walsh envision a series of six additional experiments if they get the funding.
Other experiments include recording the acoustic environment of the space station and documenting the quest for privacy in a small habitat, something which could be useful as crews prepare to experience time on the much smaller Gateway that will orbit between the moon and Earth as a hub supporting lunar exploration.
In turn, the lessons that Gorman and Walsh are learning from their first experiment aboard the space station could be applied to remote sites on Earth, like the artifacts left on Mount Everest after decades of people ascending to its peak.
“This might be the beginning of different kinds of archaeology that we could see in the future,” Gorman said.