{"id":4179,"date":"2003-04-14T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2003-04-14T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T11:49:42","slug":"asian-american-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Asian-American youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke over the weekend at the National Asian Pacific American Legal<\/p>\n<p>Consortium&#8217;s conference of &quot;community partners&quot;&#151;mostly<\/p>\n<p>local groups that litigate or organize on behalf of <b>civil rights for<\/p>\n<p>Asian and Pacific Americans<\/b>. There is some concern that this population<\/p>\n<p>will be overlooked by those who try to increase (or even merely to study)<\/p>\n<p>youth civic engagement. After all, the total numbers are relatively small;<\/p>\n<p>there is an absence of data; the &quot;model minority&quot; stereotype<\/p>\n<p>implies that Asian youth are doing fine on their own; and the population<\/p>\n<p>is very heterogeneous, making research difficult. However, Asian and Pacific<\/p>\n<p>American youth are by some measures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/research\/areas\/race_gender_outside2.htm\">the<\/p>\n<p>least likely to vote<\/a>. Moreover, research on this population is inherently<\/p>\n<p>interesting, since members come from many diverse countries of origin<\/p>\n<p>by many routes and for many reasons. Finally, democracy would benefit<\/p>\n<p>from the participation of more Asian and Pacific American youth, even<\/p>\n<p>if their numbers are comparatively small. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke over the weekend at the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium&#8217;s conference of &quot;community partners&quot;&#151;mostly local groups that litigate or organize on behalf of civil rights for Asian and Pacific Americans. There is some concern that this population will be overlooked by those who try to increase (or even merely to study) youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}