None of the Above
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Every 10 years, the United States Census counts and categorises every person living in America. But for Middle Easterners in America, there has never been a category option. And now, for the first time, there might be.
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| 0:00.0 | What race are you? |
| 0:02.0 | I'm a woman of color. Oh, I should have answered. I'm sorry, can we do that again? Because I'm an Arab American woman of color is what I should have said. Okay, sorry. See, I don't like the race piece. I just don't get it. It's messy. It's weird. It's not real. I mean, there's no, we created it, and it doesn't make sense. |
| 0:22.5 | I've never understood it. I don't get it. |
| 0:24.5 | Anyway, I'm sorry. |
| 0:26.5 | What race are you? |
| 0:28.0 | I am an Arab American, which is not a race. |
| 0:35.1 | Today, we have a story about categories. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to the U.S. to tell this one, and we're going to look at the U.S. census, which is a count and categorization of every person living in the United States. |
| 0:52.3 | Testing, testing, testing. Hello. |
| 0:55.0 | That's producer Nadine at Taui Tadros. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay, I have the list here. |
| 1:01.0 | Five options. Native American, Pacific Islander, Asian, black, or white. |
| 1:07.0 | So this is a typical form like the kind I'm supposed to fill out whenever I'm applying for a job, taking a test, or even sometimes just signing up for a mailing list. |
| 1:16.5 | These are my options. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm Egyptian American. |
| 1:20.2 | What do I tick? |
| 1:21.5 | What do I do if I don't see myself in any of these categories? |
| 1:25.3 | Today on Cunning Cultures, a story about what happens when we don't have a category. |
| 1:32.3 | What are we, as Middle Easterners, in nations that don't recognize us? |
| 1:38.3 | My name is Hibba Fisher, and you're listening to Kearning Cultures, radio documentaries from the Middle East. |
| 1:45.2 | Bold and its predictably. and you're listening to Kearning Cultures. Radio documentaries from the Middle East. And one story that always kind of captures my imagination. |
| 1:56.8 | And you're listening to Kearning cultures. |
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