America's Changing Face ...

               

You ever washed your clothes and had to separate the whites from the colored? And if you didn't, your whites and colored clothes would mash up and make a whole new color? Would you believe me if I said this is very similar to how America is now? Sounds weird, doesn't it? Well recently I have read an article called "The New Face of America" by Veronica Majerol about how the United States has become more diverse over the years, and the percentile of races has changed drastically over the years.

Majerol made several interesting points on the newly discovered diversity in the United States. She graphed the information on the drastic changes to the nation from 1950-2011. Also, she estimated the changes in the nations’ races in the year 2050. In the article, Majerol says “Social changes are also driving the social shift. The number of mixed-race marriages – and as a result, mixed-race children is on  the rise: multiracial and multiethnic Americans are among the fastest growing demographic groups in the U.S., with 9 million people identifying as a mixed race on the 2010 census, a 32 percent increase from 2000.” This is why there is a growing percentile in the different races of America. Back in 1950 when some of our parents, and grandparents were born there weren’t many more white people in America than the ones who were non-white.

Also in the article Majerol says, “we, in this country have a history of bringing in people from other parts of the world… that’s still a part of our DNA as a society that puts us ahead of other parts of the world where they have real difficulties in assimilating people.” I agree with the previous statement because many other places in the world are not as open to immigrants. America, or “the home of the free” has become a diverse place in the recent passing years.

I think that “America’s changing face” won’t really affect today’s youth because this is the world that we have been growing up in, the world that we’re used to. Although we may have heard stories of how there used to be slavery, and how the “white man” ruled the nation, we don’t know this to be true. People who were alive back then and are still alive now may have a problem with the growing diversity, but I honestly think they’ll learn to live with it. I mean, who cares about color anyway?