The Pew Hispanic Center released a report showing that 1 out of every 2 (50.5%) people added to the population in the U.S. since 2000 are Hispanic.

The growth in the 1990s was 40%.

A point of interest to note is that the Latino population growth in the new century has been more a product of the natural increase (births minus deaths) of the existing population than it has been of new international migration.

As of mid-2007, Hispanics accounted for 15.1% of the total U.S. population. That number is expected to be 30% by 2050, according to the Census

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Joe Six Pack’s race. NPR was speaking to voters about whether he is white, black, or brown. Macon D on his blog, “stuff white people do” came up with a list of 68 euphemisms for ‘white,’ and Joe Six Pack was on the list. Wikipedia identified the term as an evolution of John Q. Public, who is undoubtedly intended to be white, given the era of origin of that term. But other blogs and sites, such as urbandictionary.com, go on to qualify his whiteness:

“Average American moron, IQ 60, drinking beer, watching baseball and CNN, and believe everything his President says.”

What’s interesting, beyond the question of his race, is the politics of class and food that the image conveys. I noticed it when going from Newbury Street, Boston’s Rodeo drive, where only croissants and bagels were served at meetings, to working for City Government, where donuts were the more common fare. Is the sauce on the pasta (aka, ...

It would seem impossible for anyone to deny the close, interconnectedness of all peoples around the globe, given the immediate domino effect of crashing economies around the world that continues, following the initial crises in the US. For me, it was Iceland going bankrupt just three days into the crisis that hit this message home. Iceland?

Yet Margee Ensign, Dean of the School of International Studies (SIS), and Associate Provost for International Initiatives at the University of the Pacific said that “in a survey of first-year University students at universities and colleges across the US…only about one-third said it was essential for them to learn about other countries and cultures.

Unfortunately, stereotypes and prejudice easily fill the void where active learning and first-hand, empathic experience are missing. While Ensign was referring to international experience and understanding cultures from around the globe, the same can be said for learning abother ...

Graduate from ESCP, #3 of French Business schools, founder of Antilles Television, first private TV channel in French west indies, General Manager of French biggest hip hop label, Olivier Laouchez had it all. He was undoubtebly qualified to launch a TV network dedicated to black culture. Too bad he was in France…nobody wanted to fund the project. Together with his partner Claude Grunitzky, founder of urban trend spotting magazine Trace, they were wise enough to cross the ocean where they met a young African American banker Richard Wayner, who helped them close a deal with Goldman Sachs urban investment group and then joined the crew. 3 years later, the French government refused to qualify them for the free digital TV network because of their american investors!
Meanwhile, goingt to numerous business pitches with Trace’s management, I wasn’t even surprised to hear " Those people don’t have money! ". Consistent market research later, feedback was "Interesting but it’s noity". ...