Read this article and discover how our current American Identity is changing.
- Why do you think analysts describe this as "an important tipping point"?
- In addition, how does this shift affect decisions about education and immigration?
- Overall, descsribe how our American Identity is changing. Use evidence from the article in your answer.
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120517
I think the analysts describes this as a huge tipping point because this hasn't happened before. America is fairly new and has always been predominately white. This new minority trend in births will cause a lot of the countries politicians and educators to re-think simple things such as : how are we going to educate them when only 13% of blacks actually get a college degree? Education I feel was and is the biggest point in the article. Without immigrants , as the last commenter on the article said, " we'd be top-heavy with old people". We couldn't depend on the majority to keep populating , as a lot of European countries have done. Then who would take care of them when ( for example ) its a 3:1 ratio of old to young ? Without immigration and slavery America would most likely crumble away. The identity of America has always been different and now that the younger generation and the older generation don't look a like , I feel as if this changes a lot of things. It makes us even more diverse but also gives us a new problem to look at .
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