Filipino American spoof 'Ang Drama Mo' touts the US Census

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Dante Basco, left, and Princess Punzalan, right, star in 'Ang Drama Mo.'

Filipino American actors spoofed the popular Filipino soap operas (teleserye) offered up on TV networks offering Filipino shows from the Philippines, to urge Filipinos living in the US to take part in the #Census2020.

The first episode, "The Wedding," in what apparently will be a series, features all the hallmarks of favorite teleseryes-- drama, betrayal, a guy with an eyepatch! -- but the overly dramatic soap opera is being used to spread the word to the Filipino American community to participate in #Census2020. 

The Asian American & Pacific Islander communities, in particularly, the Filipino American community, has been proven difficult to count in the past. This year, the Census is making a greater effort to reach out by partnering with community groups.

Nonprofit agencies serving their local communities have been working with the US Census Bureau to ensure a better count.

Ang Drama Mo was created in conjunction with the Pilipino Workers Center and the Filipino Complete Count Committee of Los Angeles County.

It features Dante Basco (Hook, The Last Airbender) and Princess Punzalan (Yellow Rose) with Carlin James, Francisco "Pepe" San Martin, and Sean Michael Afable.

Since March 14, the Census has been sending out reminders to every household to fill out the Census questionnaire online.

The data collected by the data is confidential and won't be shared with any other government agency or private business.

The data will be used to determine your political representation and the following:

NOTE: The US Census Bureau continues to carefully monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and follow the guidance of federal, state, and local health authorities. The bureau is adjusting some operations with two key principles in mind: protecting the health and safety of our staff and the public, and fulfilling our statutory requirement to deliver the 2020 Census counts to the President on schedule.

In support of guidance on what it can all do to help slow the spread of coronavirus, 2020 Census field operations will be suspended for two weeks until April 1, 2020.