San Jose Mercury News: “Taiwanese-Americans spread word to increase 2010 census numbers”

By Joe Rodriguez jrodriguez@mercurynews.com When Grace Hwang Lynch fills out the census questionnaire that arrived at her San Jose home recently, she will think back to how her father greeted a census taker 30 years ago and follow his lead: She will ignore the box marked Chinese, and carefully write in "Taiwanese." "He felt that strongly about his Taiwanese identity," Hwang said, "and he's told every census since then that he's Taiwanese." Hwang is joining a growing Taiwanese-American movement…