[quote=ctr70]Ethnic make up of U.S. is on the move big time.[/quote]
Yes, big time again. There was a lot of concern about the influx of eastern and southern Europeans at the beginning of the 20th century. Some pseudo-scientists even conducted “studies” measuring cranial circumference, etc., among immigrant children, and found some statistically significant differences compared with the US-born “white” children (BTW back then, Italians, Polish, etc. were not called “white”). Of course, it was later found that such differences disappeared over time (they were probably due to malnutrition in their countries of origin).
Three remarks:
1. It amazes me how we still speak of “races” and white, black, etc., as if those concepts had any scientific validity. They don’t.
2. Just yesterday a gal at work was telling us how she graduated from a large “all white” high school in a medium/large Midwestern city in the 70s. They were not segregated by color, it was just that no non-white families lived in all the surrounding zip codes. That would be highly unusual today.
3. Newsweek or Time had a recent photo of an Apple store inside NYC’s Grand Central train station. Of the dozens of people pictured there (clients, store clerks, and looky-loos), absolutely all were Hispanic, Asian, or Black. So what? It’s just different levels of melanin in the skin, which is hereditary, just like big noses or baldness.
