The heritage month theme is "~Meeting the Challenges for Asian Pacific Americans." The APA community has come a long way since the days when laws excluded us from coming to this country. barred us from many places. public places. and worse. interned us in camps solely because of our ethnic heritage. Nationwide. we are now 14 million strong. and in the next 30 years the APA population is expected to double to about 8 percent of the entire U.S. population. Because of our history of labor immigration and our indigenous island population. Hawaii has had a head start in terms of political representation. Our APA communities have lived and worked in our islands since the mid1800s. when the first Chinese laborers were imported to work in the sugarcane fields.
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