Is USA a 100% 'ang moh' country
?
Is it entirely homogeneous - even if it 'ang moh' only ?
Perhaps you do not appreciate that an 'ang moh' German will never
believe himself to be the same as an 'ang moh'Irish, or 'ang moh'
English, or an 'ang-moh' French - and vice-versa/
Ethnic
Composition.
The U.S. is a diverse society, both racially and ethnically. At the
2000 census, of those who identified themselves as belonging to a
single race, 75.1% were whites; 12.3% were blacks; 3.7% were
Asians, Native Hawaiians, or other Pacific Islanders; and 0.9% were
American Indians or Alaska Natives. The remaining 8 percent were
either of other races or identified themselves as multiracial.
Among the more than 10.2 million Asians in the U.S., Chinese,
Filipinos, and Asian Indians were the leading groups, together
accounting for nearly three-fifths of the total. Hispanics (who may
be of any race) comprised 12.5% of the total population. Among the
nation's 35.3 million Latinos, 58.5% were Mexicans, 9.6% were
Puerto Ricans, and 3.5% were Cubans.
According to the 2000 census, the largest white ethnic group,
comprising about 46.5 million Americans, was partly or solely of
German ancestry. Other reported ancestry groups included those who
were either wholly or partly the following: Irish, 33 million;
English, 28.3 million; Italian, 15.9 million; French or French
Canadian, 12 million; Scottish or Scotch-Irish, 10.6 million; and
Polish, 9.1 million. About 45 million Americans aged 5 or over in
2000 grew up in households in which a language other than English
was spoken; in about three-fifths of these cases, the other
language was Spanish.
During much of its history, the U.S. had an official policy of
admitting more European immigrants than Asian, African, and Latin
American immigrants. Changes were made in immigration policy during
the 1970s that resulted in large numbers of non-European immigrants
entering the country. As of 2000, according to census estimates,
the U.S. foreign-born
population numbered 30.5 million; of these, at least half
were born in Latin America, and more than one-fourth were born in
Asia. An unknown number of undocumented immigrants reside in the
U.S., many of whom were not included in the 2000 census figures.
Estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center indicate that more than 11
million unauthorized migrants were living in the U.S. in 2005 and
that their numbers were increasing by more than 500,000 annually.
More than half of the illegal immigrants were Mexicans, and nearly
one-fourth came from other Latin American countries.
Am I out of my mind to compare
Singapore with USA ?
Or is your mind too small that you cannot imagine this little red
dot of four ethnic groups cannot practise democracy, when the
gorrilla sized USA has been able to practise open and transparent
democratic processes - even when the USA has more then a dozen over
ethnic groups that make themselves less homogeneous, and with a
population size that is 20 times larger then Singapore, and a
bigger land mass to compare with ?
