Minorities, now about a third of the population, are expected to become the majority in 2042 and hit 54 percent in 2050. Hispanics, who make up about 15 percent of the population today, will account for 30 percent in 2050, according to the projections. I think it's amazing how the U.S. is the melting pot of the world. As a white woman, it will definitely be hard to adjust to a new world at age 58, when for most of my lifetime the whites were the majority. The diversity in this country, however, makes it the best place to live.
Nicole Cass
AMH1041 10:05am-11:20am TR
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You know, I read this same report some time ago and I was surprised by my reaction. It's tough to admit this, but I was a little disappointed by it. Maybe it's because I'm a white man and not a member of any current minority. I remember having a brief flash of anger about the immigration policies of the Unites States and how many Latinos are coming in illegally. I had to remind myself that somewhere along the way my ancestors where immmigrants, too.
Here's the problem with that argument- I'm not an immigrant. In fact, no member of my family can even remember a member who was. Should I be threatened by the influx of Latinos into the country? Does that make me a rascist if I am? These are questions that I ask myself when I think about the immigration policy of our country.
Truthfully, I don't know how or what to feel. I expect it's the same for many Americans.
Jason Herbert
AMH 1041
10:05-11:20 TR
Nicole, I am so glad you brought this up as I have plenty to say about it.
I am 24 yrs old, and will be 25 this coming November. I've been a minority male in 15 yrs of ballet training, I've been a minority middle class boy in 3 years of prep school in my adolescence, I've been a minority white boy in all my years of working in kitchens in the SW corner of our great state, and I'll tell you the most ironic experience I've had where I, the white man, have been a minority white, was in my 4 whole years of service in the United States Marine Corps. All for years I can remember having always been the minority to the Hispanic races among other, what would be, minorities.
my thoughts on all of those experiences: I would not be the well-rounded, multi-cultured, and ethnically compassionate, Spanish speaking man that I am today. I also understand what a contribution to society the Hispanic demographic is. In the same way white male Americans dominate and maintain a thriving trade industry at wall street and institutions like Merril Lynch, the Hispanic community is who built our schools, paved our roads, and picked the fresh vegetables that we have the commodity to buy in our supermarkets and grocery stores.
It is precisely the fact that our country is the melting pot of the world that makes us so great.
Seriously, how else do we dominate the Olympics like we do? Most of our champions' are have ethnicity are stereotypical to their sport. But they are Americans: The free and the brave. The supreme race on Earth isn't Black, White, Indian, Asian, Hispanic, or even European;
It's American.
Steve Bosserman
AMH 1041
TR 1005-1120
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