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"Race played a significant role here, with whites reacting (almost entirely incorrectly) to a sense that Americans of color were overtaking them." I suppose th
by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
"Race played a significant role here, with whites reacting (almost entirely incorrectly) to a sense that Americans of color were overtaking them."
I suppose that 'almost' is there to exclude population numbers, what with whites projected to become a minority by 2050 (in the US - the white population is pretty small on a global scale, at ~8%).
- oblio 9y agoTo Europeans the whole US "white" thing is ludicrous. Americans count Hispanics as non-White, and while a good percentage of them are probably mixed, a big group are definitely what we'd call "white". You guys would go to Spain and Italy and call locals "Hispanics", based on your definition, while no German (for example) would ever do that.
- DarkKomunalec 9y agoI live an hour's drive away from Italy, and it doesn't seem ludicrous to me to notice that people have less European ancestry south of the US border. Although this holds increasingly true for the south of the US itself, as well.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoI think it's a class/culture thing, not a skin color thing. Hispanic implies you speak Spanish at home, likely to be an immigrant, maybe 1st or 2nd generation to be born in America, and your food/holiday/overall culture is different from the old "white" American one depicted in old TV shows and movies.
- morsch 9y agoWe're all mongrels: http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/mongrel.htm http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/mongrel.htm More to the point: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-myth-of-a-white-minority.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/opinion/the-myth-of-a-whi...
- DarkKomunalec 9y agoIsn't that just the 'race/ethnicity is continuous and therefore not real' argument?
- yorwba 9y agoFrom the first link: > Please understand that I do not claim that the concept of race is totally meaningless. People in certain parts of the world do bear physical similarities to one another and racial terms are sometimes useful as labels for those similarities, provided that we do not pretend that these terms have well-defined meanings. Ashley Montagu [1] and others have pointed out that most popular racial concepts are, in fact, myths. What is truly nonsensical is to turn the fuzzy concept of race around and try to classify all individuals as being members of some particular race.