Demographics of the United States

The Far East Side of American Classrooms American sitcoms often mock societal trends and highlight the best and worst stereotypes of American cultures. Aibel and Berger, writers of the animated sitcom King of the Hill, made a very poignant statement in the episode “Westie Side Story”, when a Laotian family moves into the small Texas community (1997). The main character Hank Hill innocently asks his neighbor, “So, are you Chinese or Japanese?” His neighbor, Kahn Souphanousinphone, replies, “I…

The United States has a more tolerant policy when it comes to illegal immigrants, more so than any other country. According to the American Immigration Counsel, the United States provides for an annual worldwide “675,000 permanent immigrants, with certain exceptions for close family members”, which means that even children born to illegal immigrants here in the United States are considered legal citizens. The is an policy that is sure to…

focused on highlighting how the United States was experiencing rapid changes in every major avenue in the decades after the Civil War. These transformations demonstrated how the country was adjusting following a devastating war that had fractured the country politically, economically and ideologically while also highlighting how the United States was becoming a more influential international leader. Chapter 18 of the American Yawp describes how the United States was adjusting to major changes,…

The vast wage gap that exists between most middle and low class Black Americans and the top earning Americans, coupled with the disproportionate arrest rates in the black community have created a chasm of inequality that may never be closed. The United States government (allegedly) used drugs to create a crack epidemic that resulted in the death, poverty, or arrest of millions of Americans. As Kanye West put it “we’ve been hanging from the same tree ever since.” He is alluding to the lynching…

than probability. Some of these facts that were found in the article ¨Immigration and the Great Recession¨ were Demographic change, dynamics, and data. Demographic change is a fact shown through how the United States has changed in the past decades. It shows the growth or decreasion of the population from immigration throughout the years. For example, the graph on the article states that in between 1986 and 1996 there was a large fall in population and immigration which went from 1,800,000 to…

The Untied State aging society will considerably be higher in the coming few years when the post war baby boomers are retiring. This will place a significant additional burden on the income security spending of the U.S. government and bring new challenges to existing economic policies. This paper analyses the impact of increasing aging population on the macroeconomic variables in the labor market, government spending, and fiscal policy of the United States economy. Introduction…

Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon. This European ecological imperialism began with the “decimation and demoralization of the aboriginal populations of Canada, the United States, Argentina and others.” (Crosby 106) This radical takeover by germs, weeds, domesticated animals, varmints, pathogens, “all accomplished demographic takeovers of their own in the temperate well-watered regions of North and South America.” (Crosby 116) As one Maori said, “As the clover killed off the fern, and…

"Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, newspaper, videos, and recorded music – combined" (Schlosser 3). Many Americans nowadays eat out more often in many fast food chains such as McDonalds, Burger King, and Carl's Jr. However, many do not realize the horrid ramifications that can impact one's life Esteemed writer Eric Schlosser is a current-day American…

Subtitle Standardized tests have been around for several years. While other countries do have their own forms of these tests, they are most common in the United States. These tests came around to be used as a form of an accountability system not only for the teachers and students but as the schools as well. The United States has lacked in the area of education for many years and have not raised their ranking. To try to alleviate this situation, standardized testing has become a common mandate…

Fear, a primal instinct triggering our fight or flight response. When fear strikes, a humans hereditarily response is to subdue the source of that fear. In today’s America, xenophobia has triggered the fears of large portions of people from coast-to-coast. It’s largely known that the 2016 presidential campaign and presidency of Donald Trump has sparked fear and hatred towards immigrants, both legal and illegal. Hate crimes, according to the FBI, increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, coincidentally…