The Future of America
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A look at the future of the United States of America through demographic data projections. With charts and graphs, we examine the two big transformations happening in the US: our population is becoming non-white, and it’s aging in record numbers. The study: http://www.pewresearch.org/next-america/ Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ Like our page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Join us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/100134925804523235350/posts Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo Music: BoxCat Games “Inspiration” from Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games/ BoxCat Games “Epic Song” from Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games/ BoxCat Games “B-3” from Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games/ CC License/credit: http://tinyurl.com/q2lu52b Tours: “Enthusiast” http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tours/Enthusiast/ CC License/credit: http://tinyurl.com/pvzktfn The Big Score by MK2 - YouTube Audio Library Chances by Silent Partner - YouTube Audio Library This is America’s age pyramid. That bulge getting older is the baby boom generation, like my parents -- and probably yours too -- born in the prosperous economic time period after the allied victory in WWII. For the first time in history, a society’s age pyramid will turn into a rectangle. Living longer and having less kids are the ingredients for an older population. Other highly developed countries are also entering this uncharted territory in human history when there’ll be almost as many of us over 85 as there are under 5. One major consequence, there’ll be a lot less people working to support a lot more retirees, which means we’ll have to work more efficiently. The good news is that we’re already well on our way to making that transition. But with 10,000 baby boomers a day turning 65 between now and the year 2030, that change is happening fast. When Social Security began, there were 42 workers for every person receiving benefits. Today, that ratio is 3-1 and it will be just 2 workers to every 1 beneficiary soon enough. Another piece of good news though is that the percentage of Americans who think this creates a strong conflict between the different generations is relatively low. Here is how the four current adult generations feel about a few key topics. Millennials and Gen-Xers are much more politically liberal, as seen in our support for President Obama, our strong support of marijuana legalization, and same-sex marriage. As recently as 2000 though, there wasn’t much difference in the way young and old voted. But after Bush and the rise of Obama, the difference between the parties has never been clearer. When it comes to religion, nearly twice as many Millennials as their parents say they have no affiliation. Many of these trends are being driven by the Internet, and the fact that we Millennials are the final generation that will remember life without the online world. Today’s young people are digital natives. The other factor that’s driving our open-mindedness is our diversity, which gets us to the other big transformation happening now in America., one that’s like watching a black and white painting turn into a multi-colored rainbow. In 2010, 64% of Americans identified as white, down 21% from 50 years earlier, and projected to be just 43% in 2060, with the country becoming less than half white around 2045. Immigration is driving this. A century ago, 9 in 10 immigrants were from Europe. Now, 8 in 10 are either Hispanic or Asian. And since immigrants tend to have a lot more kids than the rest of us, by 2050, 37% of Americans will either be direct, first-generation immigrants, or the children of immigrants--the highest number in modern American history. The other brush painting this rainbow is interracial relationships. In 1960, 2.4% of marriages were interracial, a practice that was actually illegal in a third of the states then. Today, more than 15% of us are marrying across racial lines. For the results, look no further than our current President, along with many of our most well-known celebrities. Looking forward, as America continues to become more diverse and accepting of the differences among us, that’ll hopefully help us gain a greater ability to join the rest of the world in confronting the biggest challenges left to us to solve over the next 50 years. Battles like climate change, poverty, hunger, disease, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and cyber crime, are all issues that transcend international borders, requiring cooperation between many different kinds of people.
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Immigration is only good for the nihilistic ruling classes. It will keep them in power far longer than they should have been. While destroying the American White/Black culture with massive third world immigration in order to keep the elderly taken care of, the government will assuredly NEVER have enough money anyway. Third-worldism is the future of America. There is NO strength in diversity at all. It's just propaganda, which more than any previous generations has been heaped on millennials continuously from birth so that to them multicultural society is preferable to the one we had prior to 1965.. They don't know any other opinions exist because to suggest another opinion than their programming is reflexively called racist. Yup third world America is now inevitable. A pathetic end to once great country.
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They'll be Civil War before 2030
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I'm a white and I'm scared
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white people invented the modern world, from modern medicine to science, they freed the world by bringing everyone democracy, and built all the best countries to live in. White people are not bad we have a lot to be proud of. Without us the world would probably still be 99% peasants suffering though short, war torn, oppressed lives. Do we really think Africans and south Americans are going to run America well? Look how unsuccessful at managing their own countries they have been for the past millennia.
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You know the drill, lads.
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, white countries for everybody. -
Your crystal ball didn't work for you predicting the election. Why do you think it will work now?
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yup. just when the white nations decided to buckle down and stop climate change. all the brown nations gotta overpopulate and flood our lands and doom the planet
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Disgusting!
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1488
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Deport all non-whites
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We must secure the existence of our people and the future for White children!
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Break up the United States before it destroys the white race.
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The title is broad and misleading click bait much...
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Babylon is falling
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3:21 they all look white to me. specially Cameron Michelle Diaz and Mariah haha what a crazy world bro :)
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Trump is the last dying breath of a dinosaur. once his generation have died off we'll be a much better country.
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People are so triggered in this comment section. Cry harder, bigots.
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I don't think everyone here understand the benefits of globalization.
Globalization is the reason why the Unites States is the most powerful
nation on earth. How do you think we think we
were able to make tremendous leaps in science and technology. Rockets?
From German scientist Werhner Von Braun. Physics? Another German
scientist called Albert Einstein. Engineering? Serbian named Nikola
Tesla. These are ALL innovators born elsewhere in the world, who moved
to our country. Without accepting other cultures and peoples, we
wouldn't have become the superpower we are today. Without immigration
and globalization, we won't stay as a super power. The moment brilliant people move to China instead of the United States, we will lose the next war.
I understand we can't accept everybody of course, but if we choose to
accept those who are specially skilled, we can enjoy the fruits of other
people's intelligence and contribution to our society. -
America will do what it always has.. assimilate. In reality our native born population is already very diverse as Italians and others are included in the white american group. Hispanic as I hope most of you know is an ethnicity, not a race. In probably 20 years that category will be eliminated .. and presto.. you have a white country majority again... history repeats itself yet again.
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