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The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities

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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.

Apparently you're a racist just for saying "melting pot"

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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.

What if hispanic whites are factored in?

My dad's brown, my mom's white, I came out looking white as hell. Am I a minority even though I'm white (hispanic-white)?

SIDENOTE Melting pot point, I'm with you there :cool:
 
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.
 
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.

True uniformity would eliminate racism entirely so there is that. However, I seriously doubt we would ever, as a nation, that we would ever reach true uniformity.

Genes pass down in a peculiar way.
 
'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.
 
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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.

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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.

Hmmm, sounds like before long the shoe will be on the other foot.....?
 
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.
 
'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.

Perhaps you'll be able to look forward to affirmative action programs in the future.
 
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.
 
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Who knew so many in Gen X were babies?
 
'It's own nation'?

America belongs to all Americans.

We founded it, we developed it, and we've run it and made up the majority of the population for the last 200 years. For all intents and purposes, it's "our" country, built in our own image.

That's not to say that we cannot, or should not, "share" it with those we are able to do so, or that it should not change in some regards to adapt to new arrivals (just as they should change to adapt to it). However, there's a fine line between "sharing," and simply handing the whole thing over on a silver platter.

If we're not careful, we're going to wind up doing the latter. It has, as I've already pointed out, happened before.
 
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.
 
I've made this point before, on other forums: The USA isn't a melting pot - it's a stew.

But it should be. You come here to become American, not <insert>-American. 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.
Had a Russian immigrant ingrain that in me when I was a teenager.


Come back and tell us all about that 30 or a 100 years from now.

People are gonna do what people are gonna do.
 
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.
 
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 all for diversity. The means by which this particular shift is taking place, however, are troubling.
Do go on.... :cool:


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....
Minor point:

The fertility rate for whites was 1.9 in 1990, and is now around... 1.8. RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! :D

African-American fertility rates declined from 2.5 to 2.0. Non-white Hispanics, from 3.0 to 2.4. Asians, 2.0 down to 1.7.

Meawhile, whites and non-white Hispanics have an infant mortality rate around 5.3 per 1,000. For blacks, it's 12.2.

It's not a huge drop, certainly not in the past ~20 years. It's that Hispanics still have more children than whites and with the same infant mortality rates, and of course almost all immigrants are now non-white.


As such, our population, and therefore total stake in and influence over mainstream American culture and society, is declining.
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I think we'll be OK when whites have a little less control over culture.

You sure you're not worried about whites having less political power...?


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.
Or South Africa. :D

Let's reflect on this for a moment. Circa 1900, "whites" actually mean "descended from the English and maybe French settlers," and all those impoverished immigrant Jews, Italians, Germans, Irish, Poles and others were the scum of the American earth. Today, all Europeans are mainstream and classified as "white," dominate white culture, and have substantial political power. Even in the 1950s and 1960s, there was a fair amount of discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping of Irish, Italians, Jews et al.

Has this ethnic shift made the US worse since 1900? What does "white culture" mean anyway?
 
For better or for worse, the US is becoming an increasingly diverse and culturally fragmented land. Responses to this change have been many from corporations looking to exploit cheap labor to gun toting rednecks patrolling the Texico border. One such response has been the increasing influence of the "multiculturalist" movement.

"Multiculturalism" is one of those words that has come to mean all things to all people. Broadly speaking, it is a movement that claims to embrace cultural diversity by de-centering society's focus on mainstream (read white middle class) culture and re-center it in multipolar and thus "multicultural" paradigm. Far from embracing and nurturing diversity, multiculturalism is actually an assimilationist movement intent on creating a new "inclusive" monoculture to replace the currently fragmented system of independent cultural traditions. The multicultural movement reduces diversity to a mass-marketable fetish for consumption by the masses.

Critics on the Right have typically responded to multiculturalism with a call to abandon it entirely in favor of seperatism (usually with an implied undercurrent of white supremacy that makes their proposals less like ethnic seperatism and more in line with an apartheid state). This is a non-starter for several reasons, not least of which that it would require massive population resettlements for which neither the need nor the resources are present. Seperatism as more than a personal choice is simply not a viable option in 21st century America. Leftist criticism has typically been matched with a call to reform the multicultural movement itself, usually by further de-centering it from bourgeoisie culture. This is certainly a more promising avenue of attack than enforced seperatism, but still likely an inadequate "solution."

Solutions? Now, I don't pretend at this point to have any overarching solutions. The first is to extend greater tolerance to those who seek to opt out of the mainstream through separatism. My second suggestion would be to work for the decommercialization of cultural expression.
 
I've made this point before, on other forums: The USA isn't a melting pot - it's a stew.

I agree with that.....

but it seems as though people are celebrating racial uniformity... as if it's a virtue or something...weird stuff.
I guess the color of your skin really does matter to people. <shrugs>
 
'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.

it will never be a melting pot.. only a stew.

unfortunately for some people out there, white people will still exist....
 
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