Race In My Community
Capstone Checkpoint wk 9 ETH 125
Historically, we've been a black-and-white country. That's not true any longer and even less true in the future. Factors such as how multiracial Americans are counted could drastically alter predictions, by the year 2050. Minority groups are expected to account for 49.9 percent of the population. Asians and Hispanics will see the most dramatic increases between now and mid-century.
Whites now represent 69 percent of the population, but their growth is slowing because of low rates of birth and immigration. Their total will grow 7 percent to 210 million, or 50.1 percent of the population, in 2050.
Between 2040 and 2050, the Census Bureau expects the non-Hispanic white population actually will decline slightly because of a large number of expected deaths of baby boomers, who by 2040 will be at least 76.
Meantime, the Hispanic and Asian populations are expected to continue their explosive growth. The Asian population is expected to more than triple to 33 million by 2050. Hispanics will increase their ranks by 188 percent to 102.6 million, or roughly one-quarter of the population.
The bureau expects the black population will rise 71 percent to over 61 million, or about 15 percent of the population, compared with nearly 13 percent now. Blacks would remain the second-largest minority. Asians would comprise 8 percent of the population in 2050, compared with 4 percent now.
Looking back to the beginning, I thought this diversity class was going to teach goodwill towards others and how he or, she could become more exceptive in ways that may lead one to leave his or her atavistic behaviors behind, but it did not? I believe this class has none more to insinuate that Americans/European settlers had no right to write a constitution or any other law that regulated the immigration of any other ethnicity or to include the Native American Indians in their plans, as they were in fact the...
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