As it is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, I just wanted to float that if it was okay if I added media with Polynesian/Pacific Islander focus.
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Not for it. Asian-American is already hugely broad by itself, but still ethnically and culturally distinct from Polynesia. APAHM originated in the '70s, but Asian-American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander have been separate categories in the nationwide census since 2000: https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/what-census-calls-us/
I do see that now that they were split in 2000. I did more research into it and despite the split in the US Census, they're still institutions like API Legal Outreach, Asian-Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence and others. Also found this from their website:
"In the 2000 U.S. Census, the Federal Government defines “Asian American” to include persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” includes Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Guamanian or Chamorro, Fijian, Tongan, or Marshallese peoples and encompasses the people within the United States jurisdictions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The previous “Asian and Pacific Islander” (API) category was separated into “Asian Americans” and “Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders” (NHOPI).
Historically, Asians and Pacific Islanders were grouped together by government classifications and by us, as part of an intentional community-based strategy to build coalitions with one another. There are conflicting views on the appropriateness of any aggregate classification or reference – “Asian Pacific American”, “Asian American and Pacific Islander”, etc; and a lot of significance can get attached to them, e.g., the word “Other” in “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” (NHOPI), and it is at times dropped in favor of “Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander”. Whilst our communities use various names to describe themselves; these groupings are ultimately political and part of a dynamic, continuing process of self-determination and self-identification.
We use the term “Asian and Pacific Islander” to include all people of Asian, Asian American or Pacific Islander ancestry who trace their origins to the countries, states, jurisdictions and/or the diasporic communities of these geographic regions."
If we're going to do this, I think we're better off renaming the page into something that encompasses both groups.
Though, TBH, I think it'd be better to split the page up between Pacific Islander American and Asian American. Especially, since it seems that the institutions that still use the grouping are mostly a remnant of the time from when the Census had yet to split the groups. An example being how AAPI month was created before the splitting.
AAPI is mostly a solidarity/legacy thing. They are not considered the same in modern parlance.
Should these indexes include Tomato in the Mirror examples where the character(s) in question find out they're not human? One recently added work fits that description, as does another work I've been hesitating to add for this reason.