1.)Heterogeneous-different people, cultures, ethnicities, ect.
2.) Immigrants-legal aliens that move to another country.
3.) Reservations public land given to the Indians by the government.
4.) Refugee-move for protection purposes.
5.) Assimilation- adopting to another culture.
The population of the U.S. prominetly white immagrants since 1600s.
populations have grown african american, hispanic american, asian american, these have grown higher than whites.
minority population exceed white pop in cali, hawaii new mex. texas.
more females than males in the us. african americans- They have been slaves much longer than any other minority group. they continue to be a large population. Most gains about discrimination has been about african americans.
Native Americans- Most of there territor(1 million) became us land. 3/4 of there pop was wiped out.
poverty,joblessness and alcoholism plague indian tribes today. To fix mistakes (try) Indian education act of 1972.
Hispanic American-Spanish speaking backround. can be any race. 50 million. cubin americans, central and south americans, purto recans, mexican. NOT ALL ARE MEXICANS.
Asian Americans- First to come to the us in 1850's & 60's first jobs were railroad. whites were mad because they took their jobs. so they payed them less. Chinese exclusion act of 1882. soppost to last 80 years but only 20. soppost to keep asians out of america. WWII japense were evacuated to the Pacific Coast. Even native born. (consentration camps.) even if born in America.
Women- treated bad through education, property rights and employment opertunites. they have made major progress, still not "equal" to men in numbers-fewer women in high status jobs than men. now illegal to pay women less than men.
