It's offical Hispanics and not Blacks are the largest minority group in the U.S.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Americans are obsesed with race

ja. we're also obsessed with heritage.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Americans are obsesed with race

And the land of the Abos is not?

[Alexander's Horse]

racists

[notyoueither]

Racists?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1525825.stm

Amid the diplomatic posturing and the haggling over language at the World Conference against Racism it is easy to lose sight of the reality of racism.

Each day during the meeting in South Africa some of those who have suffered discrimination have been telling their personal stories.

Among them is Monica Morgan, from the Aboriginal Yorta Yorta people of south-eastern Australia.

There were 20,000 Yorta Yorta people in that region before the British - what Monica Morgan calls the "first boat people" - came in 1788.

By the end of the 19th century, fewer than 100 were left.

Trauma

Now their population has recovered to 4,000, but she told the conference how the survivors had been traumatised by the collective effects of two centuries of racism.



Monica Morgan: Aborigines were "brainwashed" and "violated"

Her own generation has been marked by the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, the so-called "stolen generation".

Some 100,000 children were taken from Aboriginal families throughout Australia - including Monica Morgan's own family.

She described the impact on her family.

Monica's story

"The removal of children from their families affects every member of the indigenous community in Australia today.

"Every one of our families has been directly involved, or has people who have returned home after being removed.

"In my own family, the father of my children was removed from school at 10 years of age. He and seven of his brothers and sisters - five at school, one who was in hospital, two who were in camp with their family members - were removed and placed in a jail cell and transported to places known as detention centres or homes, where they were trained to be domestics, brainwashed to be assimilated, and violated.

"In every one of our communities now we are having our people return to us, broken, feeling rejected, hopeless and without any justice."

Monica Morgan - and the other Aboriginal people of Australia - are calling for an apology and compensation for the years of suffering.

[Cyclotron]

Zing!

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
The birth rate of hispanics in the US is pretty close to the national average.

I've read that the growth of hispanics in the US is something like 4.7%, while for whites it is only .8% or something. I'm just wondering why that is.

The reason I meantioned birthrates is because in my experience they are higher among hispanics; not only are many hispanics catholic (birth control & abortion is bad, etc.) but their culture values large families. Many years ago, my mother was talking with a young hispanic woman on an airplane. The woman said she was sorry for my mother that she only had one child, as if it was a terrible tragedy or something. That's just one example, but I've found it to be very true generally (and I live in CA, so I live around a lot of hispanics both legal and illegal).

[Ben Kenobi]

not only are many hispanics catholic (birth control & abortion is bad, etc.) but their culture values large families.

Cyclotron. You don't need to reinforce your position.
Makes sense to me.

I guess there are some things we agree upon.

[Shi Huangdi]

"And most rich hispanics still vote dem. "

Actually increased wealth increases the likelihood of voting GOP for hispanics then Blacks. IIRC a majority of Rich Hispanics went for Bush..

"Thank you Shi, practicing Catholics are very similar to Evangelicals in voting patterns."

Maybe. Religious Catholics are usually very pro-life and so that sometime encourages them to vote Republican. However religious Catholics are sometime also leftist on economic and foreign policy issues, so sometimes they will vote Democraitc based on that, particularly those who feel the GOP won't get anything done on Abortion.

"Sure wish this was a lower percentage, those who call themselves Catholic, yet don't practice."

I still welcome them to call themselves Catholic. As the Bible says, we have all fallen short of the glory of God, so I don't want to be judging people and saying there not good enough to be Catholic. Although if what you meant is that more of the self-identifying Catholics should practice then ya I agree.

[Ben Kenobi]

Shi, what I meant was that those who call themselves Catholic should practice. I have nothing against people calling themselves Catholic.

I don't want to be judging people and saying there not good enough to be Catholic.

Especially because I'm not Catholic to begin with.