牛顿华人协会对亚裔细分问题的态度 (2-11-2018)
Opinions of Chinese American Association of Newton on Asian American Data Disaggregation
前言 – 牛顿华人协会是经过美国联邦政府审批的501c3类型的非盈利组织。联邦法明确规定了本组织参与政治包括立法活动在时间和经费上的局限。受时间限制，目前我们希望能协助协会的华人朋友对亚裔细分问题加深了解，努力求同存异，达到共识。下面是我们的初步观点。
Introduction – Chinese American Association of Newton is a Federal 501c3 nonprofit organization. We are subject to restriction by the federal law and regulations in our involvement including time and financial expenditure in the political and legislative activities. We do hope to help our Chinese American associates and friends better understand issues regarding Asian American data disaggregation, to seek common ground while reserving the differences. The following are our opinions and services that we’d like to offer.
1）我们赞成设法更有针对性地对亚裔中的弱势群体提供更多资源和帮助。
1) We agree and support providing more resources and help to the disadvantaged Asian Americans.
2）我们认为H3361提案简单地用Ethnic背景来区分亚裔不仅不能很好地达到上述目的，而且可能会带来更多问题。所以，我们不赞同麻州州议会H3361提案。
2) We do not think MA Bill H3361 will achieve the above objectives well by simply disaggregating Asian Americans by ethnic background. Instead, it will create more problems. Therefore, we do not agree and support H3361.
我们认为解决目前分岐的最佳途径是各个意见不同的团体加强交流与协商，并且努力与有关议员沟通，增进相互了解以达成共识。我们不愿意看到因细分提案造成华人团体之间乃至华裔与其他亚裔间的矛盾和分裂。牛顿华人协会愿意为牛顿以及波士顿地区的华人及亚裔提供一个公开平等的交流平台，进一步讨论上述问题和其他有关问题的细节。为解决目前的分岐和维护华人及亚裔的团结尽我们的义务。
We believe that the best approach to resolve disagreement is for organizations with different opinions to improve communication and have more discussion, and to seek more communication with state and local representatives involved, to develop more mutual understanding and reach common sense. We do not want to see breaking up and contention among the Chinese Americans, and between Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans, caused by the disagreement regarding the Asian American data disaggregation issues.
Chinese American Association of Newton is willing to help provide a discussion forum for Chinese and Asian Americans in Newton and the Boston area, to further discuss above and related issues, as part of our mission to bring all of us together and uphold our rights in this great country.
牛顿华协董事会
The Board of Directors, Chinese American Association of Newton
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