Hi everyone,
Here is an article about demographic changes in the US.
http://us.cnn.com/2015/11/24/opinions/liu-race-poll/index.html****************
....the number of Americans who say racism is a big problem has jumped significantly since 2011.
And beneath them all is a deep tectonic shift: whiteness and Americanness are at long last delinking. This will be painful in the short term, especially for whites. The long term depends on how all of us respond to pain.
From the origins of our country, to be white was to be presumed American and to be American was to be presumed white.
....things are now changing, rapidly and inexorably. A majority of babies born in the United States are now of non-European descent. In 25 years, America will be majority people of color. And this demographic revolution is creating simultaneous surges of hopefulness and anxiety...
You can sense this flux in three key findings from the new poll: about the American Dream, institutional racism and white privilege.
Most white Americans surveyed believe they will do worse than their parents. But strikingly, most African Americans, especially younger ones, now feel they have a better chance of achieving the American Dream than their parents did.
... Whites, by a two-to-one margin, believe racism is a problem of bad individuals rather than biased institutions. Blacks and Hispanics are far more divided on the question.
Most whites surveyed admitted that being white has been an advantage for them socially and economically. That must change. It is starting to.
Latinos are now the largest group of color in America. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing immigrant group, and there are burgeoning numbers of mixed-race Americans.
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Some trends that may also be relevant to Europe in the future.
For information.
Sriram
