Fo Real S'kebei ... Pidgin english is now officially a language Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii Don't 'oe be givin me no stink eye, this is fo real s'kebei. After hundreds of years, Hawaiian Pidgin has been officially recognised as a language. A US census survey into languages, which was released on November 3, included both Hawaiian Pidgin and Pidgin in its official list for the first time. – Metro UK

Dominant Social Theme: Government agencies get a bad rap. In the US, many fedgov facilities try very hard to be respectful of differences of all kinds.

Free-Market Analysis: This is a great public relations coup for the US Census Bureau, one of the more invasive of US agencies and thus a department that is always thinking of ways to better its image.

And what better way than to officially recognize a "language" spoken by non-white islanders residing on a US protectorate, the Philippines?

Here's more:

More than 327,000 Hawaiians took part in the five-year survey from 2009-2013, asking residents if any language other than English was spoken within their home ... Pidgin has been denigrated as a 'sub-standard' form of english in the past and linguists have been trying to reverse this perception ever since.

After reading this article, one must come away convinced that the Census Bureau bureaucrats are uniquely sensitive to the cultural components of the "clients" they attempt to count on a regular basis.

This was surely a tempting "wrong" the Bureau was able to rectify and so it did. Hopefully, people will realize now that the Bureau, invasive as it is, is dedicated to the well being of the US inhabitants it is charged with counting.

Of course, the Bureau needs to generate as much good will as it can, given what has been discovered lately about its participation in placing Japanese-American citizens in internment camps.

We are informed about this from an article that recently appeared in USA Today by libertarian reporter and author James Bovard. The article, entitled "Trump Card for Another Census Roundup," tells the sad tale of Census Bureau participation in a shameful episode of US history.

The putative reason for James Bovard's article has to do with the current political success of Donald Trump who may wish to create a registry of the names of Muslims in the US.

Bovard, of course, is anti-registry and mentions at the beginning of the article that he "recently received this 28-page tsunami of questions about everything from my plumbing to my profession to my ethnicity and income. But ... Trump's words ... and the bureau's actions in the past make me wary of this blunderbuss."

Bovard continues:

... In the early 1940s, the Census brazenly violated federal law by providing key information on Japanese Americans so that the Army could round them up for internment camps. The detentions are widely recognized now as among the largest civil liberties violations in modern U.S. history.

For almost 60 years, the Census denied any improper role in the internment. But in 2000, researchers disclosed a cache of smoking-gun documents that compelled the bureau to admit some culpability. Even so, it proudly declared that it had never provided the names and addresses of specific Japanese Americans to law enforcement or the military.