London CrowdHow the world changes. Next year, white newborn babies will become a minority in the USA. According to census, non-white births, including Hispanics, made up 48 per cent born in America between July 2008 and 2009. Hard to believe there will be more minority births than whites of European ancestry. Even in the recession, minority birth rates were still quite high.
One of my favourite tv shows is the UK version of Donald Trump's 'The Apprentice' with Sir Alan Sugar. It's quite heartening to see so many young people of different colours and backgrounds making such a success of their life, that they are head hunted to appear on the show. But Britain also has its problems. The pressure of immigration and rising birth rates fuelled by the new arrivals is having an impact and in London, four in ten young people are members of ethnic minorities.
We are so lucky in Australia, we share no borders with anyone, and I feel sorry for the Americans and their border problems. The changing make-up of the population has caused deep resentment. It is now an offence in Arizona to be an illegal immigrant and police have the power to search anyone they suspect is not from the US. Among Hispanics, there were around nine births for one death compared to one-on-one ratio for whites. Add to that the fact that the median age of the white population is older than that of non-whites, so a larger share of miinority women are in prime child-bearing age.
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