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'Racial and ethnic minorities now surpass non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of American children under 5 years old, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The reversal in 2014 marked a milestone in a trend toward a more diverse U.S. that's projected to continue. Births outnumbered deaths for all ethnic and racial groups last year except for non-Hispanic whites, the new Census data show. A report earlier this year projected that by 2044, today's majority white population will be the minority.'
The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities - Bloomberg Business
Excellent.
I am as WASP as it gets and I think it will be great for America to truly be a melting pot.
'Racial and ethnic minorities now surpass non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of American children under 5 years old, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The reversal in 2014 marked a milestone in a trend toward a more diverse U.S. that's projected to continue. Births outnumbered deaths for all ethnic and racial groups last year except for non-Hispanic whites, the new Census data show. A report earlier this year projected that by 2044, today's majority white population will be the minority.'
The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities - Bloomberg Business
Excellent.
I am as WASP as it gets and I think it will be great for America to truly be a melting pot.
I enjoy increased cultural diversity. The different foods, music and customs really spice life up.
But increased diversity is a double edged sword. As diversity increases more and more people of different cultures and ethnicities will have children together and over the generations of this we will all be blended into something more uniform. That is, of course, what a melting pot does. There are advantages and disadvantages to that.
'Racial and ethnic minorities now surpass non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of American children under 5 years old, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The reversal in 2014 marked a milestone in a trend toward a more diverse U.S. that's projected to continue. Births outnumbered deaths for all ethnic and racial groups last year except for non-Hispanic whites, the new Census data show. A report earlier this year projected that by 2044, today's majority white population will be the minority.'
The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities - Bloomberg Business
Excellent.
I am as WASP as it gets and I think it will be great for America to truly be a melting pot.
I'm all for diversity. The means by which this particular shift is taking place, however, are troubling.
Speaking plainly here, whites simply aren't breeding. Our fertility rate is about as low as that found in most of Western Europe, and only barely above that of Japan. As such, our population, and therefore total stake in and influence over mainstream American culture and society, is declining. If that trend continues, we might very well wind up not with a "melting pot," but a culturally, politically, and socially marginalized white minority which has basically had its own nation hijacked out from under it by foreign influences.
It's happened before. Just look at what happened to Lebanese Christians over the course of the 20th Century, for example.
I'm all for diversity. The means by which this particular shift is taking place, however, are troubling.
Speaking plainly here, whites simply aren't breeding. Our fertility rate is about as low as that found in most of Western Europe, and only barely above that of Japan. As such, our population, and therefore total stake in and influence over mainstream American culture and society, is declining. If that trend continues, we might very well wind up not with a "melting pot," but a culturally, politically, and socially marginalized white minority which has basically had its own nation hijacked out from under it by foreign influences.
It's happened before. Just look at what happened to Lebanese Christians over the course of the 20th Century, for example.
'Racial and ethnic minorities now surpass non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of American children under 5 years old, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The reversal in 2014 marked a milestone in a trend toward a more diverse U.S. that's projected to continue. Births outnumbered deaths for all ethnic and racial groups last year except for non-Hispanic whites, the new Census data show. A report earlier this year projected that by 2044, today's majority white population will be the minority.'
The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities - Bloomberg Business
Excellent.
I am as WASP as it gets and I think it will be great for America to truly be a melting pot.
I'm all for diversity. The means by which this particular shift is taking place, however, are troubling.
Speaking plainly here, whites simply aren't breeding. Our fertility rate is about as low as that found in most of Western Europe, and only barely above that of Japan. As such, our population, and therefore total stake in and influence over mainstream American culture and society, is declining. If that trend continues, we might very well wind up not with a "melting pot," but a culturally, politically, and socially marginalized white minority which has basically had its own nation hijacked out from under it by foreign influences.
It's happened before. Just look at what happened to Lebanese Christians over the course of the 20th Century, for example.
'It's own nation'?
America belongs to all Americans.
We founded it, we developed it
It used to be that first-generation immigrants would cling to their roots, while second-generation tried to forget it, and third generation tried to remember it.
Today, more and more immigrant generations refuse to melt with the rest.
I've made this point before, on other forums: The USA isn't a melting pot - it's a stew.
Had a Russian immigrant ingrain that in me when I was a teenager.But it should be. You come here to become American, not <insert>-American.
Come back and tell us all about that 30 or a 100 years from now.
People are gonna do what people are gonna do.
Yeah, people are different now. Some of my family emigrated here in the 1930s, so I'm 3 times removed and watered down now.Still look really middle eastern though.
But you're 100 percent American, eh?
It's the same with a lot of people.
I'm American, and you may not have noticed, but I is 100% ma-male.
Do go on....I'm all for diversity. The means by which this particular shift is taking place, however, are troubling.
Minor point:Speaking plainly here, whites simply aren't breeding. Our fertility rate is about as low as that found in most of Western Europe, and only barely above that of Japan....
As such, our population, and therefore total stake in and influence over mainstream American culture and society, is declining.
Or South Africa.If that trend continues, we might very well wind up not with a "melting pot," but a culturally, politically, and socially marginalized white minority which has basically had its own nation hijacked out from under it by foreign influences. It's happened before. Just look at what happened to Lebanese Christians over the course of the 20th Century, for example.
I've made this point before, on other forums: The USA isn't a melting pot - it's a stew.
'Racial and ethnic minorities now surpass non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of American children under 5 years old, the Census Bureau said Thursday.
The reversal in 2014 marked a milestone in a trend toward a more diverse U.S. that's projected to continue. Births outnumbered deaths for all ethnic and racial groups last year except for non-Hispanic whites, the new Census data show. A report earlier this year projected that by 2044, today's majority white population will be the minority.'
The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities - Bloomberg Business
Excellent.
I am as WASP as it gets and I think it will be great for America to truly be a melting pot.
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