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As the article clearly mentions Manhattan as the location of the school, it can be deduced that the country is the U.S. As for the population ratios in the U.S
by MrDresden 6y ago
As the article clearly mentions Manhattan as the location of the school, it can be deduced that the country is the U.S.
As for the population ratios in the U.S, a short internet search tells me that there are estimated to be 330 million people living in the U.S as of 2020, of whom it is estimated that 46.8 million are african americans and 60 million are hispanic. That comes down to 14.18% and 18.18% respectively.
So given some margin for error, and accounting for other minority groups, only 1 in 3 would be of another skin colour than white in the U.S.
- _dps 6y agoThere is a large generational gradient here which may be relevant. As of 2016 non-hispanic white is just slightly less than 50% of births [0]. The 1 in 3 number is a good estimate for the entire US population, but the school age population is trending toward the 1:1 we see in births. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-official-minority-babies-are-the-majority-among-the-nations-infants-but-only-just/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/23/its-officia...
- MrDresden 6y agoThat is genuinely interesting. I guess there will be a seismic shift for many things in U.S society over the coming decades, where one of the more interesting would be voting patterns.
- wrycoder 6y agoThe open southern border is a deliberate plan to change those patterns.
- MrDresden 6y agoAs someone born and raised within the Schengen Area I would never call the U.S border, anywhere, open in any way.
- lenkite 6y agoThe EU polices its external borders far better than the US does.
- MrDresden 6y agoI never suggested there was an open border policy to the greater world when it comes to the EU/EFTA. Only that the U.S border cannot in any way be called an open border, as it does not allow free movement of people and goods across its borders when arriving from another country. While selective in who it is open for, the Schengen Area can be called open as it requires no visa's or passports and allows complete freedom of movement for citizens of those countries that have signed up for the agreement.
- aliswe 6y agoik that the US is the country, that wasnt my question ... But whos country is it? The "white man"s? It just struck me as a very strange thing to say.
- MrDresden 6y agoI said ".., I can only try to relate to how it is to be in a minority in your own country." That contains no statement on who's race that country is (as obviously it, as all countries, is not owned by one group of its citizens over others)