Word: hapas
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...original HAPA held discussions about biracial issues such as mixed marriages, sponsored the premiere American showing of "Doubles," a television documentary on people of half-Asian descent, and held social events featuring Asian food like sushi and Chinese noodles...
According to Walther, the first HAPA gave its members a chance to discuss biracial issues, which they had not had a chance...
Like the present-day HAPA, the original HAPA had a small core group of active members--about 10. But unlike the new HAPA, the original group existed before the emergence of mixed-race golf celebrity Tiger Woods, and before the 2000 Census, which allows Americans to fill in more than one racial bubble...
Weisinger says it was easy for the group to gain official recognition from the University because the current HAPA members were simply reviving a defunct student group...
...HAPA takes an egalitarian view of its bureaucracy...