<p>In 50 years, America will become a minority-majority nation, meaning that Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and other minority groups as a whole will outnumber Whites. How does this make you feel?</p>
<p>I wouldn't be afraid if that minority had mainly Asians. Asians have proven they can fully assimilate and become highly productive citizens (more productive, on average than European Caucasians).</p>
<p>I don't think anyone is predicting a happy ending when the US becomes more and more like South American countries (is there a bright spot among them?). In terms of economies we have perpetual underclass of non-whites and a continual overclass of elite whites. The countries that attempt to be more egalitarian turn into Cuba, Venezuela, or Boliva (all with immense poverty). Virtually all of the wealth generation in South America is due to natural resources, not from knowledge capital (as with the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc). Basically, it's not looking good.</p>
<p>Sounds good to me...I just hope that wealth and power will be proportionally distributed...not likely though</p>
<p>Uhhh... What? You fear too many people that aren't white?</p>
<p>Besides, you'd think that in 50 years there would be a sizable "mixed" population.</p>
<p>They will make us eat chicken wings everyday, and change the anthem to kumbayah. I am holding tightly onto my Bible, my cotton plantation, and freedom fries hoping the day will never come when not only is the richest 7% white, but this small percentage actually contains ALL of our grand species.</p>
<p>On the other hand, this scenario might keep the trailer trash out of my way when I go bum-fishing (man, you should see those guys run after the waterbottle I dangle on the fishing pole... priceless!).</p>
<p>Now that was funny.</p>
<p>In all seriousness I am hoping our "democratic" institutions will catch up with and engage a much larger workingclass. Unless a miracle occurs and non-white people (I do believe northern Asians are undergoing the same process the Irish and to some degree Italians went through a century ago, i.e. a climb in class mobility being followed by an incorporation of the group into the "white" identity so as to not threaten its claim to natural capacity for managing and excelling in key institutions. American morticians used to testify to the coal-black skin revealed underneath an Irishman's white layer - they were considered a relative to the inferior black man) -- unless a miracle occurs and non-white people 50 years from now are no longer economically marginalized.</p>
<p>Slim chance, though. :/</p>
<p>Awesome, frrrph, at your first post.</p>
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<p>^well the OP said that the margins are now rivaling the entire page in size...so there's your miracle.</p>
<p>First it was the Indians (they introduced the sin of alcohol into our upright community -- a crime in itself!), claiming they gonna be intruding on our American dream, then there was the black people flooding into our country from boats and stealing the plantation jobs. Woe is America! A minority after the other, just looking to steal our labor and land.</p>
<p>If the "minorities" outnumber the majority, then they won't be minorities anymore</p>
<p>collectively the minorities will form a majority but each individual minority will remain a minority</p>
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If the "minorities" outnumber the majority, then they won't be minorities anymore
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<p>Whites will still make up the single largest demographic group, which is why other groups will still be considered minorities. Unless, of course, you choose to not distinguish amongst minority groups and only hold them in significance due to the fact that they are not White, which is a thought steeped in racism (Whites vs. everybody else). It's a fact that minorities do not always get along with one another, and to assume that they are all like-minded because of the fact that they are not White is ignorant.</p>
<p>What seems contradictory in the beliefs of people like Tom Tancredo (possibly the most worthless Congressman in Washington today) is the fact that they claim that the influx of immigrants (legal or otherwise) will lead to the decay of "American values". I'm going to assume that American values is a illusory euphemism for Republican values, which I'm further going to assume includes things like Christian piety, free market capitalism, and marginalizing homosexuality and abortions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the average Black, Latino, and Asian are more pious, more pro-capitalist, and more socially conservative than the average White, especially Northeastern liberal Whites. So why is not the Tancredo wing of the Republican party trying to incorporate these natural Republicans into party loyalists? The only conclusion I can come to is that they're not White, and beyond any ideology, that's all that matters to people like Tancredo (who, as the son of Italian immigrants, would not be considered White in some cases). American values is simply being White, and preserving White dominance.</p>
<p>^lol, yeah, good one.</p>
<p>In 50 years there will be so many "mixed" people that I don't think it will matter that much. Race won't play as big a role as it does now because there will be so many people with a little bit of something.</p>
<p>Ummm, are you kidding me? In South American countries virtually everyone is mixed. Probably the most hierarchal societies on the planet.</p>
<p>^^^
But they're mostly all hispanic looking or hispanic in nature. The mixes that you will see are betwen black/white, white/hispanic/ white/asian, and black/asian,hispanic, etc. All that are easily identifiable as different mixes. I know South American countries don't have ALOT of those mixes.</p>
<p>Ummm. Mixes in South American are Black-Hispanic-White or any combination of the three. They are thoroughly mixed and have many mixes.</p>
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collectively the minorities will form a majority but each individual minority will remain a minority
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But whites won't be the majority anymore, they will just be the largest plurality. There is a big difference, especially in a democratic society (60-40 vs. 40-30-30 is a big difference).</p>