A thought struck me today. Exactly how many Asian people are there in the United States? I went on Wikipedia and I was very surprised to find out that Asians only make up 4.4% of the population. White people make up 80% of the population.
Then you take that 4.4% and break it down to all the sub-groups. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Thai, Singaporean, Lao, Malay, Indonesian, Indian, etc.
I guess growing up in California really sheltered me from knowing just how much of a minority I am in this country. Both of the coasts have the highest concentrations of Asians. I’ve never really visited that many states outside of those on the coasts and when I went to the non-coastal states, I was too young to notice.
So through a rough estimation, for every one Asian person, there are twenty White people.
How’s that for some perspective?
2 Comments
November 19, 2008 at 7:38 pm
also keep in mind that we chinese take up one-fifth of the entire world. so for every other four people in the world, there is one of us.
November 19, 2008 at 7:44 pm
truly mind bottling, word to Chazz Michael Michaels