Census 2010: Iranian Americans getting recognition

This year’s US census is something I'm quite curious about these days, especially since the impetus behind getting Iranians to fill out their race/ethnicity as Iranians seems to have such broad/popular appeal. The fateful combo of streaming video and social networking site seems to be playing an important role in the popularity of the campaign (at least from what i can see from here) which will probably reach a lot more young Iranian Americans than radio or satellite channels.

Mixed feelings

Been back in the Netherlands again since recently. The “mixed feelings” cliché really sums up how I’m experiencing it. It’s good to return to “real life” since fieldwork existence is a bit up in the air despite being long-term, but I also miss many things about being in LA and the people who I had around me there. 

The bulk of my fieldwork is behind me now. Will be writing from here for the time being before returning to LA again. My return to LA is planned for the Summer of 2011. I have quite some stuff on my mind to put up here but have only now started to make the time to write it up (so lots coming up soon!).