Final Project
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April 13th, 2014
ETH/125
David DiBari

During my time in this class I have learned a lot of new things about different groups of people and it has helped me be more understanding of these groups. The United States has such a variety of people and all of us have either personally moved here from somewhere else or have ancestors who have moved to this country. I also learned a lot about how I can help move the push for equality forward and show my support. I have learned that all groups have discrimination. I have also learned that my culture is just as discriminated against as everyone else’s, even though I did not know that before. According to a report done by Pew Research Center, buy 2050 the United States will be at an incredible 438 million in population. This coming up from the 303 million in the United States in 2008. (Haub, 2008) Not only that but the racial pool of this large group of people is also going to shift. Caucasian Americans will go from the 67% it stood at in 2005 to the estimated 47% of 2050. Other races included in this estimate are Hispanics, which are estimated to go from 14% to 29%. African Americans that are expected to stay at 13% and Asians, which are estimated to go from 5% to 9%. (Passel, 2008) I think a lot of this has to do with the amount of immigration we have right now and the fact that a large portion of our immigration is from our southern border. There are a lot of challenges that the United States faces as a whole do to such diversity. One problem is that as a whole, we are a country that is constantly hurting ourselves. We spend more time fighting about who should have what rights and less time focusing on things like trying to help with some of the debt hole we have dug ourselves into. This kind of diversity causes problems when people are not willing to