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White minority
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:17 am
by Gob
For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, according to the US Census Bureau.
The agency projected that in the US, whites would become a minority in the under-five age group this year or next.
The 2012 data also found that for the first time in more than a century, there were more deaths than births among white Americans.
The "natural decrease" occurred several years earlier than forecast, it said.
The government figures also project that in five years, minorities will make up more than half of children under 18.
The Census Bureau expects further decline among the white population as aging baby-boomers die.
The latest findings come a year after the census reported that whites had fallen to a minority among babies in the US.
Minority populations are growing faster than the white community due to high birth rates, especially in the Hispanic community, as well as immigration.
But the white American population is still seeing small increases because of immigration from Europe, the data shows.
The Census Bureau said 63% of Americans were white and non-Hispanic.
The fastest-growing minority groups were Asians, whose population expanded by 2.9% in 2012, and Hispanics, by 2.2%.
Re: White minority
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:54 am
by Sue U
I have lived and worked in "minority-majority" (or is it "majority minority"?) cities virtually all of my life. It's no big deal.
ETA:
Over all, I think the food is better.
Re: White minority
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:19 am
by Joe Guy
It's Obama's fault.
Re: White minority
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:56 pm
by dales
It depends on how one depends "white".
Re: White minority
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:30 am
by rubato
So?
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rubato
Re: White minority
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:39 pm
by dgs49
The pattern around the world in most societies is that you have a privileged MINORITY and a MAJORITY that is struggling for one reason or another.
There is no unity among the masses of people who are generically called "minorities" in this country. To propose that "they" are in the majority is preposterous. In fact many of them hate each other out of pure bigotry. Hell, even the people we absurdly refer to as "Hispanics" are about as unified as the U.N.
Re: White minority
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:56 pm
by Rick
The Prolitariat will prevail.
Meet the new boss same as the old boss...
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:21 am
by rubato
I have more in common with an educated technical person from India than I do with ignorant poor white trash southern Republicans.
yrs,
rubato
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:18 am
by dales
rubato wrote:I have more in common with an educated technical [a] person from India than I do with ignorant poor white trash southern Republicans.
yrs,
rubato
fixed
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:51 am
by Gob
rubato wrote:I have more in common with ignorant poor white trash.
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rubato
Better fix
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:37 pm
by rubato
dales wrote:rubato wrote:I have more in common with an educated technical [a] person from India than I do with ignorant poor white trash southern Republicans.
yrs,
rubato
fixed
Ok, "Ignorant Republican"
is redundant.
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:46 pm
by rubato
Gob wrote:For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, according to the US Census Bureau.
The agency projected that in the US, whites would become a minority in the under-five age group this year or next.
This kind of thing is repeated only to create racist hysteria and hatred. Headlines are written to appeal to the basest and most unthinking emotional reactions.
It implies that things are true when they are not:
"Your racial identity matters" Being white, brown &c is something important about you such that you share class interests with that group.
"Being a minority/majority matters" The subtext is that when you are a minority you are inherently poorer, weaker, disadvantaged or likely to be exploited and persecuted.
"If you're not a majority then someone else is" Logically foolish. A society can easily be composed of groups where none of them are a majority.
My initial response pointed this out by example. This is the primer version.
Whipping up racist hysteria is a bad thing you shouldn't go along with it like this.
yrs,
rubato
Re: White minority
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:57 pm
by Gob