Ethics Final Paper

I have learned a lot more about our society’s cultures by taking this course. I now have a better understanding of each racial and ethnical background. America’s growing diversity has reached nearly every state. From South Carolina’s budding immigrant population to the fast-rising number of Hispanics in Arkansas, minority groups make up an increasing share of the population in every state but one, according figures from the Census Bureau. West Virginia is the exception, with its struggling economy and little history of attracting immigrants. The United States is a diverse country, racially and ethnically. Six races are officially recognized: White, American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races. The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as “Hispanic or Latino” and “Not Hispanic or Latino”, which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as a racially diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the nation. White Americans (non-Hispanic/Latino and Hispanic/Latino) are the racial majority, with a 72% share of the U.S. population, according to the 2010 US Census. Hispanic and Latino Americans amount to 15% of the population, making up the largest minority. Black Americans are the largest racial minority, amounting to nearly 13% of the population. The White, non-Hispanic or Latino population make up 63% of the nation’s total.

By 2050, I find the majority of the United States to become nonwhite. There’s going to be a very diverse minority population with large amounts of interracial marriage. What we’ll see is that the Anglo-Saxon population will no longer be the majority. I also believe the mixed-race population will grow the fastest because compared to the past, interracial relationships are increasingly tolerated and considered to be ok by a large percent of the younger generations. In today’s society, it is no longer odd to see a...