President Joe Biden said the 'Arab American story is the American story' when he issued a proclamation in honor of Arab American Heritage Month in late March.
“Because Arab and MENA folks are currently categorized as white on federal forms, and therefore, their data is not disaggregated outside of the white category, it’s actually masking disparities between white and Black folks, white and Asian folks, white and Latinx folks, white and Indigenous folks, so it actually masks disparities for all groups,” Awad, president of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association , tells TODAY.com from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“It’s better to not be ignorant about the presence of a community in the U.S. that doesn’t get very much attention except for when it’s negative, and so I think it’s important to learn about all groups,” Awad said. “There’s a lot of stereotypes, and it’s a month for us to focus and make sure that we’re sharing the true experiences of our community in as many different ways as possible and working with organizations and other communities across the country,” Stiffler tells TODAY.com.
And there was TikTok user Amal, also a Lebanese American, who underscored the importance of authors through“What it means to me is being able to finally celebrate parts of myself that I maybe struggled with growing up, like feeling I’m different, or maybe I’m too Arab for non-Arab Americans, that I’m too American for Arabs and feeling like there’s two different identities that I have,” Amal, who asked that her last name not be mentioned, tells TODAY.com from Toledo, Ohio.
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