<p>"we should focus on having more babies"</p>
<p>I agree. >_></p>
<p>People at my school (35% hispanic) complain that there are too many mexicans in my area. ten years ago it was 6% I think. </p>
<p>BUT, Hispanics having lots of kids (like average is 3.5, around here it's 4) does help the hispanic population. when the media starts deciding how many shows to put on with hispanic characters in them, they look at the census, and lo and behold, if there is a high hispanic census count, they will make shows with hispanc characters in them. They wil be afraid to protray hispanics badly if there is a large hispanic population since then no one wil watch the show and they will lose revenue. </p>
<p>BUT, say asians, who have on average 2 kids, compared to statistics for hispanics in my area who have 3 or four kids, there is simply not enough asian %tage in the population for the media and the movies to give a crap.</p>
<p>If asians were 10% or more, then obviously asians would be as well represented in the media as blacks are. THere would be less discrimination, and he*ll yes I bet there would be an asian NACCP. </p>
<p>asians are too focused on careers/money to have kids. Asians, you don't all have to be lawyers/docters!!! Years down the line, focusing on career/money too much is gonna hurt you. If there is no community/population to back you up, you are getting anywhere. Asians in America don't care about families as much as hispanics do, and that hurts them. </p>
<p>another thing my friend and I were talking about was how the asian population intermarries so much (usually w/ white), and how that actually decreases Asian American population. Most of the offspring of asian/white couples end up marrying white, and stop seeing themselves as Asian when they are only 1/4. They start marking white in the census, and not asian, and the media/marketers see this and don't create postive images of asians in the media. In a way this girl was saying that by Inter-racially marrying, they were actually reducing the Asian American population, becuase hapas often marrying white. so one or two generations down the line, 1/4 asian , 3/4 white hapas don't see themselves as Asian at all, but rather as white. If you don't look asian, and/or have an asian last name you don't psychologically consider yourself asian. </p>
<p>20 years down the line, nobody will have making fun of hispanics since there will be so many. But people will still discriminate against Asians as long as the population is small.
again this is a generalization, but it's true more often than not.</p>
<p>to sum it up...
small population=discrimination.</p>