In the Austin area and around Central Texas there are numerous Asian-owned businesses that you can support in honor of AAPI Heritage Month.
says that encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia , Micronesia and Polynesia .
AAPI Heritage Month was just celebrated as a week beginning in May 1979 until 1990 when it was expanded to a month. In 1992, Congress passed a law which annually designated May as AAPI Month. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.
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