Minority groups in America are becoming increasingly high in number, high that the people are beginning to question whether ‘minority’ is the correct term to use on people of color in the United States of America. The Census Bureau of U.S tries to explain ethnic minorities in the U.S through the statistics they have compiled showing their contributions from military to areas like education and business. Asian-Americans take 5% of the American population, and they are the fastest growing of the minority groups in the country with higher household incomes and educational attainment. Hispanic American is another minority group on the rise, and it is projected that by 2050 they will make 30% of the U.S population. Latinos are a subgroup of Hispanic America, and although they experience challenges in the education sector, they make significant contributions in areas like business. Before Latinos took over as a dominant minority group, African-Americans were in the lead. The African-Americans play a major role in the culture in America, and despite the misunderstood, the census conducted has helped wash away the negativity about the blacks.
Asian-Americans.
Unlike a century ago, Asian-Americans are the most educated, highest income generating and fastest growing group in the U.S. At this time; they enjoy life than the general public. They are comfortable with their lives and value marriages, career and parenthood more than the Americans. Asian-Americans are arguably the group that lives in neighborhoods that are mixed and does not practice racism when marrying. This is evident when Priscilla Chan married Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook joining the 37 percent of Asian-Americans who have married non-Asians (Whittemore, 2016). Asian-Americans have developed economically, and this success and social assimilation have helped them gain publicity in the U.S. They are the majority group in U.S after passing Hispanics. Asian-Americans enjoy some status in the US, for example, their education level is on the rise as 61% of the Asian American adults have undergraduate degrees (Whittemore, 2016). This is double the number of non-Asian groups making Asian-Americans the most educated lot in U.S among the foreign groups. For this reason, their likelihood of receiving green cards is almost triple that of other minority groups (Whittemore, 2016). The green cards they receive is on the permanent resident status on employer grounds instead of family grounds as it is the norm for other groups. Their migration wave in half a century has made the population of US grow. U.S born and foreign-born children and adults were at 18 million in 2012 making 5.8% of US total population. Their living arrangements align with these values. They are more likely than all American adults to be married (59% vs. 51%); their newborns are less likely than all U.S. newborns to have an unmarried mother (16% vs. 41%); and their children are more likely than all U.S. children to be raised in a household with two married parents (80% vs. 63%) (Whittemore, 2016).
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Asian-Americans believe in the rewards of hard work, and 69% say they can prosper if they work hard, a view only shared by 53% of other minority groups (Whittemore, 2016). This is evident in the way they stress on hard work even on their children. Other children in the minority groups say that Asian American children tell them of how much pressure is put on them by their parents to work hard in school. Asian American children in school say how other children are so reluctant in performing school duties and that even their parents don’t really care about their performance in school (Whittemore, 2016). It is with this pressure that children from Asian American groups perform excellently making this group more educated than the other group.
Regarding discrimination, Asian-Americans of this century does not feel racially discriminated like in other centuries before. The burden of culture imposed on them is less severe as compared to other centuries. About 10 % say they have been treated unfairly because they are Asian claiming they have been called offensive names (Hirschman and Perez, 2009). Most of the Asian-Americans say that they engage comfortably with other groups claiming that even though there are cases of discrimination it comes as a result of mere provocation and it is not all that deep. Older adults are less prone to negative personal experience than children probably due to immaturity. Comparing them with other minority groups like the blacks and Hispanics, Asian-Americans are not really subjected to discrimination and do not view discrimination as a concern (Hirschman and Perez, 2009). They say that there are no challenges in getting jobs or gaining school admission. A handful of them feels they make a difference during selections for jobs. Generally, Asian-Americans say that their group experiences a good if the not better relationship with the whites and other minority groups in the US.
Hispanic-Americans .
Hispanics have an experience with unfair treatment, but the kind of discrimination they experience varies with age. Those of the age between 18 to 29 say they get treated unfairly because of their ethnicity or race (Krogstad and Lopez, 2016). Hispanics who are born in the US experience more of the unfair treatment than the immigrant Hispanics. It is also viewed that white Hispanics receive less discrimination than the nonwhite Hispanics and so it can be seen that the unfair treatment is largely due to race. This kind of treatment is consistent across different education levels and other subgroups (Krogstad and Lopez, 2016). As to the wisest approach to race relations improvement, views of the Hispanics get along more with the whites because the focus is on what the groups have in common as opposed to that makes them different. Before they focus on differences, they first celebrate and enjoy the similarities. Latinos being a subgroup of the Hispanics are low in terms of academics though they make major contributions in the business arena. They suffer high rates of poverty than the other minority groups (Krogstad and Lopez, 2016).
African-Americans
In the U.S businesses for the black are improving, African-Americans have experience in military service with African-Americans hitting the 2 million marks in 2010 (Peck, 2016). More interestingly African-Americans graduate at almost the same pace as Americans. They also lead other minority groups in earning high school diplomas. Though they have been associated with urban areas, African-Americans have moved to the south in huge numbers. The African-American community experiences systematic racism and unemployment. The rate of unemployment doubles that of the population itself hence difficulties in providing for families and wealth accumulation (Peck, 2016).
Police brutality is also an emerging factor as African-Americans are a target group in the country. It is perceived that they are the initiators of crime and hence being a target even at times when there is no crime committed. This has led to the creation of movements like ‘Black Live Matter’ in a bid to stop the brutality (Peck, 2016). Single parenthood has also been an issue because single women face the challenge of raising kids alone. The women are single because most of their husbands have been imprisoned. The African-American community has always had a challenge with legacy. The arrests of African-Americans have been high more than on any other minority group. A black man is six times more likely to face jail term than any other group even if crimes committed were to be the same (Peck, 2016). They have a difficult legacy in U.S mainly because most of their ancestors went to the U.S as slaves. This has in most occasions lowered their dignity, and the attitude they have been receiving has always been rough. African-Americans have also had to deal with health care concerns. Accessing health care has been hard for them especially those living in urban areas. The few facilities setups in their places have been degraded, and funding for resources has relatively been slow compared to areas of other minority groups (Peck, 2016).
U.S statistics on minority groups.
Current immigration wave from Asia has increased the population of Asian-Americans to 18.2 million which is a record (O'Hare and Pollard, 2010). This figure includes both foreign and US-born children and adults. Their roots are from many countries in the Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and every subgroup within Asian American group has its own culture, demographic traits and social beliefs and pathways into America. Despite the differences between these subgroups, they are wholly distinctive mostly when compared with the US were they better than the US not only in college degree but also in household income. In household income, Asian American stands at $66,000 as compared to $49,800 for the US (O'Hare and Pollard, 2010).
Asian American arrangements regarding marriage are held in high esteem. Not many newborns will get themselves to unmarried parents. The second generation, who are children of immigrants, are comparable than immigration generation in measures of household income and socio-economic development and assimilation like getting an education and English fluency. It is still hard for intergenerational accountability of the Asian American immigration. The second generation is now growing and has recently grown to adults in notable numbers leaving the immigrants to be the dominating group still. The median age of second-generation Asian is 17 showing that almost half are still kids (O'Hare and Pollard, 2010).
References
Krogstad, J., & Lopez, G. (2016, June 29). Roughly half of Hispanics have experienced discrimination. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/29/roughly-half-of-hispanics-have-experienced-discrimination/ .
Pollard, K., & O’Hare, W. (2010). America's Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Population Reference Bureau. Retrieved from http://www.prb.org/Publications/Reports/1999/AmericasRacialandEthnicMinoritiesPDF17MB.aspx .
Whittemore, A. (2016). The Experience of Racial and Ethnic Minorities with Zoning in the United States. Journal of Planning Literature , 32(1), 16-27.
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