1. What does it mean to be an American?
Does the reigning Ms. America represent an American?
It is very
easy to answer the “Question” what does
it mean to be an American? Because, when I saw this question suddenly these
things come in our mind which are; freedom, hard work, confidence, equal rights,
enjoy weekend, single parent, pay bills, divorce, freedom fighters, Democratic
or republican, these characteristics describe an American. Also, when you think
about an American it doesn't describe only those people who are born in the United
States, because America is a country in which different cultures are moved from
different countries. So, the question is arise do they people have the same
freedom and rights? The answer, by law
is yes, but does the society accept them as an American? The answer is no,
because if we talk about Miss America who is an Indian when her win was
announced twitter exploded with hateful tweets, so people were shocked that an
Indian American would win because “this is America”. You can imagine those
people, who are belongs to different cultures and suffering through cultural
encapsulation and also they are facing the hate of American people. On the
other hand, if we talk about miss America does she represent an American than
the answer is yes, she has all the
qualities which represent her American; she is smart, intelligent, and
educated.
2.What did you learn from visiting this
website?
This website is a good source for analyzing two
cities if you want any type of data you just enter the zip code and all the
information will display in single click. It shows all the data for example,
the population of the cities, education achievements from high school to
college level, marital status, poverty, household income, median income, age
sex display through different type of graphs. When I compare 21237 with my zip
code 21030 then I analyze the population is less as compare to 21237. Also the
education level is good in all categories in four year degree 28.3% while the
21237 has only 12.1%. 4 yr+ 51.2% and 21237 has only 17.2%. The median income
is also greater than 21237 city. It also shows the different races data in
these two cities for example whites (79.1%) in 21030 and in 21237 the white
population is (76.7%). In short, after compare two my zip code (21030) to zip
code (21237) I saw many good things in my city which I was unknown before
like education achievement is good ,
median income is also good, less population, less poverty so all these things
tells me we did the right selection for choosing a good city.
3. What will the US demographics look
like in 2050? What does this mean for you?
What will the US demographics look like
in 2050 is really a very interesting
question because when we think about it, then we imagine only few things
in which we have interest , but if we go in more detail and research on it then
we can see those things which we never think before. People are the backbone of
this question because the whole things are turnaround of the people who are the
builders of the society, and who effect on the economy, also they invent new technologies,
so the people make the base of the society. Pew and
census data give us a lot of detail about the future of the US even more than
2050 year. The census says the US population will jump 439 million in 2050.
Immigrants will be coming into the US with increasing rate and the overall
number of immigrants will have more than doubled by 2050, to 81 million. If we
talk about race and ethnicity in 2050 then according to pew research center 2008,
data tells us the surge in Asian 9% and Hispanic 29%, but a huge drop off for
white 47%. Really, yes because according to Joel Kotkin, “There's going to
be a very diverse minority population with large amounts of interracial
marriage. What we'll see is that the Anglo-Saxon population will no longer be
the majority. I believe the mixed-race population will grow the fastest because
compared to the past, interracial relationships are increasingly tolerated and
considered OK by a large percent of the younger generations. It's no longer
strange to see a black and white couple at a restaurant together today. Yet
someone visiting from the 1960s would be shocked.” (CNN.com) After
saw this data I can Imagine a picture what will be the America look like in
2050, but I think in 2050 the racism factor will be decreases because if the
new generation will be raised in different cultures or like Joel Kotkin talk
about the “interracial marriage” it will change the American people thinking
towards other races, because if a child grows in the family in which one parent
is American and other is Chinese then he/she will be grow in two different cultures.
So, when he/she grow up, he doesn't care about race. All in all, 2050 will be
the time when nobody will feel embarrass because of their race may be the
race Colum in all forms should be deleted.
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