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Furthermore, the Executive Order is committed to taking on several issues. Working with 23 agencies and departments in the government, the initiative is rather comprehensive in scope:

It's the impact of a Small Business Administration that offers loans to Asian American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs whose small businesses sustain so many communities around the country. It's the impact of a Department of Health and Human Services that funds research on the diseases that disproportionately affect Asian American and Pacific Islander families. It's the impact of a Justice Department that upholds the Voting Rights Act and its promise of language assistance and equal access to the polls. And it's the impact of evidence-based research and data collection and analysis on AAPI communities -- so that no one is invisible to their government.

Finally, Obama highlighted the diversity (in every sense of the word) within the AAPI community as shout-outs were given to singer Penn Masala, Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu and Wat Misaka, the first non-white basketball player in the NBA -- all present for the signing. Emphasizing that the term AAPI includes Americans with ancestry in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Obama signed off by lighting what is apparently the official White House Diya, wishing all a Happy Diwali.

And not once did he use the phrase "East Meets West."

A copy of the Order can be read here.
A transcript of Obama's signing remarks can be read here.