[Rurik]

(03-08-2012 06:50 AM)P Dog Wrote:  

(03-08-2012 05:42 AM)Rurik Wrote:  

Also, if you factor in the growing miscegenation between non-hispanic whites and non whites, we are going to be crossing the 50 percent barrier very very soon. It's not just about replacement fertility. Interracial marriage is growing at an ever increasing rate.

Mixed hispanic and non-hispanic people aren't considered Non-Hispanic (because they're part hispanic).

Would a tan Greek be considered white under your definitions rather than say a lily white Syrian? Would them being a Christian Syrian instead of a Muslim Syrian (the bulk of the Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian diaspora is Christian) change their categorization? Would a tan black hair brown eyed Greek be called white but not a blue eyed Jew (half of Jews from Ukraine have blue eyes)? Would you change your mind if they were blonde or red headed? What would you call a Muslim Bosnian then?

Because it sounds like you're only calling people white if they come from a Christian, European (as in the continent) background who doesn't speak Spanish. Or would you go back to 19th century definitions that considered White Americans "ethnic" if they weren't Protestant (ie. the Know Nothings)? Would you exclude "Mediterranean" Italians and Greeks (who together created Western civilization) under early 20th century definitions of what is "White"?

Either way, the 3 percent that is of some Middle Eastern ethnic origin is not the main issue in terms of the demographic decline of white americans, it's miscegenation compounded with non-white fertility rates and immigration. In the coming decades, interbreeding and intermarriage are going to increase even further.

The main point is White Americans (and yes I mean mostly unmixed ethnically/genetically European Americans of Christian/Indo-European cultures) are going to be under 50 percent very soon.

I'm not laying a value judgment on that, I'm just saying it's going to drop rather quickly. The United States is undergoing brazilification. That's just a fact. Whether it's good or bad and the ramifications of it is another matter.

[Commander Shepard]

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[Waqqle]

Houston: Come for the oil jobs, relatively lower taxes, and cheaper living costs. Stay for the fact that, even in a "city," you are so far away from everything and everyone else that you have to drive to them and can be away from them most of the time.

Distance is not something unique to Houston and is found in virtually every American city. I just see it as being the case that, even if there are many different ethnicities and communities, you are unlikely to see or engage with them on a daily basis because you will just be in your own part of town and getting to another part of town is such a pain in the neck that you probably won't do it often. If there are 80,000 Hmong and Viet people in your city but they all live on another side of town that it takes you more than an hour to drive to through traffic (and no public transport takes you there), you can effectively say that you have no Hmong or Viets where you live because you are not probably not going to be making that journey through traffic just to see them very often if ever and they are basically about as much a part of your life experience as they would be if you lived in a different city far away with no Hmong or Viet people in it.

That said, if you want to be around people of a particular ethnicity, a pro tip is to remember that they tend to prefer being around other members of their ethnic group as well and thus they tend to cluster together into certain neighborhoods. You can try to find yourself a place in that neighborhood where you can see and interact with them on the regular as opposed to getting another place on the other side of town where you will likely never encounter them.

[The Beast1]

Newbies: come for the advice, stay to dredge up threads that are 6 years old.