"Minorities" in your Community

[Gooblah]

This is a question I've wanted to ask for a while:

Is there a large minority community in your town? What's your opinion on minority communities?

For this question, assume a minority to be a religious, ethnic, or racial community which is not the majority in the nation (i.e Asians in America, etc). Thus, if you are a white guy in your town where everyone else is black, then there is a large minority community in your town (the black people). Also, "large" is defined as greater than the national average.

My answer:
Yes. My town has roughly 80,000 people in it, of which 40% are minorities *by my estimate). 15% are North Indians and Sikhs, 10% are South Indians, 5% are African/African-American, and 10% are East Asian.

Poll's coming up.

 

[jeps]

This is a question I've wanted to ask for a while:

Is there a large minority community in your town? What's your opinion on minority communities?

For this question, assume a minority to be a religious, ethnic, or racial community which is not the majority in the nation (i.e Asians in America, etc). Thus, if you are a white guy in your town where everyone else is black, then there is a large minority community in your town (the black people). Also, "large" is defined as greater than the national average.

My answer:
Yes. My town has roughly 80,000 people in it, of which 40% are minorities *by my estimate). 15% are North Indians and Sikhs, 10% are South Indians, 5% are African/African-American, and 10% are East Asian.

Poll's coming up.

By being white I am the minority, if that answers your question. TONS of Chinese, Koreans, Iranians, and Japanese, and a significant Vietnamese and Thai community as well.

tons of great food.

 

[bhsup]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_County,_MO

As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 16,653 people, 6,511 households, and 4,557 families residing in the county. The population density was 20 people per square mile (8/km²). There were 7,247 housing units at an average density of 8 per square mile (3/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 97.33% White, 0.61% Black or African American, 0.59% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other races, and 0.92% from two or more races. 1.07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

There is a very large Hispanic population in my town, and I think it's a good thing for pretty much the same reasons why anybody would. Besides that we have Asians and Black people (both African and African American).

 

[Trajan12]

 

[Ansar]

In Miami, FL, being hispanic (like me) means you're not a minority.

 

[Gooblah]

Guys, check out my definition of a "minority": a population that is the minority in the nation, not in the specific area. Thus, towns in the US that are 90% Asian still have a large minority status, even though that town's majority is the national minority.

 

[skadistic]

Very diverse racial profile here. Don't care what race they are I care what attitude they bring and the ones that come from the ghettos and bring those ghetto thug mentality with them I could do with out.

 

[Merkinball]

What kinda gay-ass poll is this?

 

[luiz]

Wiki says:

According to the IBGE of 2007, there were 11,714,000 people residing in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. The population density was 4.781 inh./km². The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census revealed the following percentage: 6,278,704 White people (53.6%), 3,935,904 Brown people (33.6%), 1,440,822 Black people (12.3%) and 58,000 Asian or Amerindian people (0.5%).[13]

Different ethnic groups contributed to the formation of the population of Rio de Janeiro. Before European colonization, there were at least seven different indigenous peoples speaking 20 languages in the region. A part of them joined the Portuguese and the other the French. Those who joined the French were then exterminated by the Portuguese, while the other part was assimilated.[14]

Rio de Janeiro is home to the largest Portuguese population outside of Lisbon. The Portuguese community (the oldest in the city) has left a remarkable legacy to Rio de Janeiro since the 16th century. After independence, Rio de Janeiro remained gateway for thousands of Portuguese immigrants, mainly in the first decades of the 20th century. They were mainly poor peasants who, later, found prosperity in Rio as small traders.[15]Besides the influence on ethnicity, the Portuguese left its architecture and also the accent of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, which sounds more Portuguese than the other Brazilians.

The black community, whose ancestors were brought as slaves, had a great impact in the composition of Rio's population. Nowadays, nearly half of its population is Black or part-Black. Most of the slaves in Rio came from Angola or Mozambique. Rio's carnival, with its samba, is probably the most remarkable influence from the black community.[16]

As a result of the diversity of immigrants who came to Brazil between the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, one may find in Rio de Janeiro many Jews, Arabs of Lebanese and Syrian origin, Italians, Spaniards, Germans and people from different parts of Brazil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_De_Janeiro#Demographics

Everyone is a minority here, there is no majority.

The portuguese, arabs, italians, jews and etc are so much a part of the city that it is weird to call them minorities.

If there is a distinctive minority group that has been growing as of late it is of chinese people. I read somewhere that 20,000 chinese folks settled in Rio in the last couple of years, and they indeed seem to be everywhere nowadays, working in small family business.

 

[Taras Bulba]

I don't like it because the only jobs that I can get at my age are being taken by adults who'll work for less

 

[nonconformist]

 

[Elrohir]

Lots of whites, Hispanics, blacks, Asians, etc here. I don't really care one way or another, because I'm largely indifferent towards the concept of race in general. It's not really interesting to me at all what the racial makeup of my community is.

 

[Gilder]

The town I live in is over 97 percent white.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I'm not really familiar with majorities even existing.

In my high school you might have thought there was a slight black majority, but then you have to take into account that about 1 third of them were actually born in Africa. The Eritrean population was quite large, probably the largest minority is go deeper than the White/Black/Asian split to deal with actual nationalities. The Vietnamese would probably be a close second, and there were many other African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, and Eastern European groups represented as well.



I was basically always indifferent to this. I've never really considered Race to be of any importance in my identity, or than of others. Diversity always seemed the norm, with the actual groups being irrelevant. I've recently found that when I'm in homogeneous areas (especially with other white males) I tend to feel rather ill at ease, especially when I don't know most of the people. A diverse group of strangers seems less intimidating.

Here at Georgia tech there are lots of minorities, but it actually seems kinda homogeneous compared to my high school. (For one thing, people are more cliquish here than in my high school, although from what I hear less than in most places.)

 

[Aramazd]

Yes, there is a large Hispanic and Asian population here. I don't really care.

 

[LesCanadiens]

By being white I am the minority, if that answers your question. TONS of Chinese, Koreans, Iranians, and Japanese, and a significant Vietnamese and Thai community as well.

tons of great food.

Majority of people in Vancouver are white. Only around 40% are non-white.

 

[really]

According to the last census 22% of people described themselves as something other than Irish here. Polish and Nigerian were the biggest groups.

There is a small town nearby that has a very big Brazilian population

 

[Heretic_Cata]

We have turks & tatars but no one has a problem with them (and why would they).
As for the gypsies, well - there are enough threads about that.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I don't like it because the only jobs that I can get at my age are being taken by adults who'll work for less

its the minorities fault that your local leaders can't run a city and get jobs there?

anyways, there's a sizable mexican minority here and a bit of japanese and laotian. great food. and white people can get boring after a while, so it can be nice to hang out with different people.