2006-08-15

Diversity, not racism, the US Norm

The continuing and substantial influx of non-whites to the US -- in combination to an absence of non-whites ever leaving -- stands as a towering and irrefutable testiment to a lack of racism in the US. Consider the difference between stagnant North and South Carolina in 1960 and today's boom economies there, marked by a massive influx of fully integrated non-white immigrants.

This article includes a rarely examined topic: "Hispanic is a term for people with ethnic backgrounds in Spanish- speaking countries. Hispanics can be of any race, and most in the U.S. are white. When demographers talk about the shrinking percentage of white people in America, generally they are talking about whites who are not Hispanic." Sadly, though, the article charges on without considering the implications of this meaningless definition (including the qualification of white people for "Affirmative Action" if they have spanish sirnames).

Also the article joins the ignorant trend of using the term "minority" to describe white people who fall below 50% of a population; when the largest group comprises less than 50%, it's properly called a "plurality", not a "minority", a term which applies only to all the other groups.

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