If you're white, are you preparing your child for life as a minority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

You must have a difficult relationship with Facts.

[takoma]

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's a clown question, bro.

+ it was all over the map

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone's been watching too much Fox station ...

Ouch. I'm doing p90x and it hurts to laugh

[Anonymous]

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

[takoma]

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

No, but I just did: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/census_summaries/fairfaxcounty_sf1_2010.pdf. Fairfax County is about 2/3 white, 1/6 Hispanic. It's amazing how misleading subjective judgments can be.

BTW, without denying the usefulness of Spanish, I have to ask: You were joking about Chinese, right?

[Anonymous]

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

No, but I just did: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/census_summaries/fairfaxcounty_sf1_2010.pdf. Fairfax County is about 2/3 white, 1/6 Hispanic. It's amazing how misleading subjective judgments can be.

BTW, without denying the usefulness of Spanish, I have to ask: You were joking about Chinese, right?

But fairfax county public school have disappointe number of minority children. This means that whites are having fewer kids when compared to minorties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

Last time I checked, Spanish wasn't the language of choice in any of the BRICs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is a nauseating, racist to the core thread.

It is not.

It's the future.

And as whites, we'll have to get used to being in the minority.

How is that racist?

When we're all brown, we'll find some other way to categorize ourselves - nose width, for example, or eye shape. something completely superficial - just as skin color is

No. The OP did not merely say that she had to prepare her child for being a statistical minority. She said she has to train her child to live in a world in which she and people of her race will be persecuted (see pars 2 and 3 of her post).

THIS is the problem with her post. I think we all realize that the math is inevitable. However we do not agree that the future America is going to be hostile to white people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

laugh all you like, world is changing and so is the job market
There will be and already is a demand for chinese
And who says that a kid who knows chinese does not know spanish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

No, but I just did: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/census_summaries/fairfaxcounty_sf1_2010.pdf. Fairfax County is about 2/3 white, 1/6 Hispanic. It's amazing how misleading subjective judgments can be.

BTW, without denying the usefulness of Spanish, I have to ask: You were joking about Chinese, right?

But fairfax county public school have disappointe number of minority children. This means that whites are having fewer kids when compared to minorties.

your kids may want to pick up that useless chinese language you speak of based on these demographics

whites 43%
asian 19%
hispanic 19%
black 10%
misc 6%

http://www.fcps.edu/news/reports/stateofschools.pdf

[Anonymous]

and people. your micro view of what you see in your neighborhood, school, etc is not indicative of the macro statistics.

stop putting off what you see in your little worlds as your "stat" to the broader picture. its annoying because some of you just speak from a place of ignorance and continue to argue your stupid point when actual statistics are presented to you.

[Anonymous]

I agree, misc is a small %
That. Is why misc will be a skill in high demand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

takoma wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Latinos are the majority as of now.

Latinos, in the 2010 census, edged out AA by 12.5% to 12.3%, with whites still around 70%. Do you also believe in Santa Claus? Personally, I think race is one of our stupider social constructs, but if you're into it, at least get your figures right.

Have you checked Fairfax County Public School demographics inside the Beltway lately? Most of them are 30-70% hispanic. I live in NoVA, and my 10 month old DD already understands Spanish thanks to her proactive mother - me. She and I will laugh at kids who go to her public school and speak a useless language like Chinese but no spanish.

There are 1 billion speakers of Mandarin, and a good many live in one of the fastest expanding economies in the world. There are 390 million speakers of Spanish. While Spanish may have more practical use in this local area, it is ridiculous to describe Chinese as a useless language.

[Anonymous]

You betcha! Let's hope that affirimative action and minority set-aides are still around in a few years....