One of the many races that migrated to the United States is the Vietnamese race. After the fall of Saigon, Vietnamese refugees have fled their homeland to seek for a better life. Now, 30 years later, they have become an industry of their own. According to the latest census, there are approximately 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000).
Argument The Hart-Celler Immigration Bill was passed over forty years ago, on Oct. 3, 1965. “The legislation, which phased out the national origins quota system first instituted in 1921, created the foundation of today's immigration law.” Today, the unexpected has happened and has created the greatest wave of immigration in our nation's history. More than eighteen million legal immigrants, over triple the number during the previous thirty years, as well as undocumented millions of illegal immigrants have come to America since the law's passage. And the new immigrants are more likely to stay in America for the remainder of their lives. In addition, this new, inflamed immigration flow came from countries such as Asia and Latin America.
It is also estimated that White Non-Hispanic Americans will be less than half the population at this point with 46.3 percent of the population being that race. Hispanics however are estimated to be 30.2 percent of the population, that's exponential growth within the next four decades! Who knows the impact this will have on our society and culture as well. With White Non-Hispanic Americans being less than half the population we are becoming a truly equally diverse society. Due to the diversity of it's people, the United States has some challenges to face in the coming years.
From 2000 to 2012, the United States Census Bureau reported that Mississippi had the highest rate of increase of mixed-race population, up 70 percent in the decade, although the population has not markedly increased. [34] The change reflects new births among a young population, but also people who have chosen to identify as multiracial, who in earlier years may have identified as only one ethnicity. One demographer said, "In a sense, they’re rendering a more accurate portrait of their racial heritage that in the past would have been suppressed. "[34] Susan Saulny, "Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image", New York Times, March 20, 2011, accessed October 25,
Some of Obama’s political agenda is an innovation to create new jobs, to end wars and rebuild America, to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, invest in clean energy made in America. As in the Utusan Malaysia October 27, 2012, it states that 25 percent of US Muslim stills undecided. Eventhough there are only seven million Muslims in the U.S. population, their involvement in the political direction of this country recognized world power due to the number of those many states known as a 'swing state' which is Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida. So, I think the remaining balance of people who still undecided can see the good quality and great political policies and agenda proposed by Obama and vote him to win this
The total rate of imprisonment in Australia in 1995 was 119 per 100,000 adults (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1997) and 411 for the USA (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997). By the year 2008 Australia’s rate had risen to 169 (ABS, 2009), whereas the USA had a considerable increase to 760 per 100,000 adults (BJS, 2009). Female rates of imprisonments are considerably lower than men in both jurisdictions. In Australia in 1995 the rate was 12 (ABS, 1997) and the prisoner population for females in the USA at the same time was 51 (BJS, 1995). By 2008 the rates for females in Australia doubled to 24 (ABS, 2009) and in the USA increased to 67 (BJS, 2009).
Regardless of their innocence, we as American's place blame and hatred on their society and never look back. But, beyond that hatred and blame is a person who's culture and ethnic backgrounds are different than ours. According to (pbs.org, 2009) “Arab Americans are an ethnic group who trace their roots to the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Arab immigrants began arriving in the United States during the 19th century. The majority of Arab Americans are descendants of the first wave of mostly Christian immigrants, which began around 1875 and lasted until about 1920.
The Deprivation Freed Blacks Faced In between the years 1820-1860, political, economic and social changes were occurring in America. Free African Americans continued to expand throughout different cities and states. In fact “in the year of 1820, there were 233,504 freed African Americans living in the United States in which free blacks were accounted for only 2.4 percent of the American population.” (Clark-Hine, C-Hine, and Harrold). However, by the year of 1860 the percentage of free African Americans rapidly increased in many cities such as Baltimore, Philadelphia and Richmond. Because of the expansion of free African Americans, many white people feared the thought of competing with another races.
These children automatically gain US citizenship. The nation is growing each year just due to the immigrants coming in from Mexico, South America, Central America, Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia. About 76% of the immigrants are Hispanic. Just in Alabama there are an estimated 130,000 living in the state. Illegal immigrants become employed in “low skilled jobs” that no one else wants to work.
Divorce is very common in our current society. All across the world people are accepting divorce in society and it continues to play a role in our society. Starting in the 1960s divorce started to become a more prevalent problem in the United States. The number of divorces per 1000 people, also known as the divorce rate, doubled from a rate of 2.6 to 5.4 between the 1950s and 1980s (Mooney, Knox, & Schacht, 2007). In 1990, when the divorce rate was 4.7, there were 1,182,000 divorces in the United States (Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Divorces, 2006).