The Big Question: What does it mean for the US if whites are no longer in the majority?

The Big Question: What does it mean for the US if whites are no longer in the majority?




By Paul Vallely
Friday, 15 August 2008

The white population will begin to shrink from 2031. By contrast, the population of Hispanic Americans, who have a much higher birth rate, will double so that one in three American citizens will be of Spanish background........

What are the political implications?

Considerable. Two things are going on. The white population is getting older and the non-white population is getting younger. By 2030, nearly one in five US residents is expected to be over the age of 65, with the proportion highest among whites. By mid-century the number of elderly people will have doubled. By contrast, by as soon as 2023, more than half of America's children will be non-white. ..................


Will the US change beyond recognition?

........ Whites will decline from their present 64.7 per cent of the population. But they will still be the biggest single group, representing 46 per cent compared to the Hispanics' 30 per cent. The whites will still exert a cultural dominance.


Does America face fundamental change?

Yes...

* Jobs will less often be allocated on racial lines and white housing will be desegregated
* The worst-educated whites will increasingly take on more menial, low-status jobs .......


No...

* The whites will remain the largest ethnic group and their values will remain dominant
* Latinos will integrate into the English-speaking culture as other groups did before............

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當兩方面都知天知地知己知彼時, 如何百戰百勝?

哈囉李察

剛看完 Batman 電影 (係, 咁遲至看, 最怕迫人 :>),
一幕話有兩隻船, 各握對方炸藥裝置遙控, 無通訊下不
想殺人又不想被殺該如何選擇?如美俄核遙控, 但此兩例
子最大破綻是當知道被毁時有時間按掣反擊, 與著名囚犯
理論不同

當兩方面都知天知地知己知彼時, 如何百戰百勝?
曹操與諸葛亮於華容道上, 不再是鬥智, 而是鬥心理

好玩的地方是:
我估你估我估你估我估你估我估你估我...........
..........在想什麼
此循環小數估估吓遊戲何時終止?

狐狸


李察回應：

這是一條好問題。

如果兩方面真的是彼此了解，亦全面了解時代與環境，
則，

這兩方面就是好朋友，不需要「戰」了。
他們會充份合作。


對嗎？

這裡是兩個變數

Derekleung 提到...
你條等式不對....

應該是
(資源 ＋ 知識　＋　智慧　）　vs 人
吧?

資源(不動or減少), 需要知識和智慧的增長才可追得上人口的增長

2008年08月21日 星期四 下午11:14


李察 提到...
這裡是兩個變數。資源會變，人亦會變。
但知識和智慧，卻是被人應用的。
如果人有多一些的知識和智慧，就可能想到應變的方法了。

2008年08月23日 星期六 下午2:20

you are not alone.

Subject: Population 2
>
> Sorry,
> I was possibly to eager to send the news.
>
> I didn't mean that you are happy because there was a terrorist threat
> to reduce population,
> just I think you and some people are addressing a problem in different ways,
> even in the movie it did mention that our world is getting so messy
> which is related to the population problem,
> only some people would take it to a negative extreme;
> anyway, what I was trying to say is,
> you are not alone.
>
> Please keep writing.

Andrew

Leechard's Feedback


Dear Andrew,

I like watching movies, it is also another good stimulation to our brains.

Can population be reduced?

Can population on earth be reduced by human themselves?

Can War, or Terrorist act, or atomic bombs etc reduce human population?

My own guess is that: It may not.

Human can :"destroy" human kind , but not easy to "reduce" the size of population

for the example of China......Do you think the Chinese can reduce themselves

into the figure of 17th Century? (by the same method of present population control?
supposing the reducing rate be 0.8 )

by the year 2108: 1.3 billion X 0.8 = 1.08 billion

by the year 2208: 1.08 billion X 0.8 = 0.832 billion

by the year 2308: 0.332 billion X 0.8 = 0.6656 billion

by the year 2408: 0.6656 billion X 0.8 = 0.53248 billion

by the year 2508: 0.53248 billion X 0.8 = 0.425984 billion


..........These are interesting wrong calculations. Hope the scholars
could figure that out.

Leechard

L 之終章．最後的23天

Hi Richard,
> hope you are doing well these days.
>
> Came across to watch a Japanese movie by chance,
> which is called L之終章．最後的23天;
> an extension of the popular 死亡筆記;
> not a good movie,
> just the story line was about a terrorist threat,
> which its objective is to reduce population,
> since one of the founder saw that as the root of all pollution problems.
>
> So I guess,
> there are people thinking like you,
> hope you will be happy knowing this.
>
> Take good care.

Scarcity of water

If you could count..........
Dear Leechard,

Scarcity of water, food and energy crisis, the soil and air pollution, population crisis ,and global warming, are the major threats for us human.

I have read an guardian article that British is now facing it.

The daily consumption of every British citizen is found to be as much as 4,645 litres, if other factors, the amount of water required in planting the vegetables and fruits, the potatoes, the apples, are included in this calculation.

It is astonishing to hear that as we have never thought of the volume of water being used by a man in one day, as in the previous study, people has neglected that the planting water for vegetables and fruits, which is an important factor affecting human water consumption.

I wish that people in Britain and elsewhere on earth, could understand the importance of this news. It could be better if the green organization, the Environmental department, and farmers can do this kind of study in Hong kong.

This is very important mission, as hong kong also faces this kind of water shortage problems in the recent years but people do not realize how this affects their life.

william


Here is the article:


Revealed: the massive scale of UK's water consumption
Each Briton uses 4,645 litres a day when hidden factors are included
Felicity Lawrence
The Guardian,
Wednesday August 20 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/20/water.food1/print,

世界會有文化重心嗎？

nightingale 已針對您的文章「「知識危機」是甚麼？」留下新意見：

世界會唔會有文化重心？
因為世界上有些國家的文化比較有影響力。例如︰中國、印度，亞洲人的文化幾乎來自這兩個國家。
英國、以色列，歐洲人的文化都有它們的影子。
如果這些國家重新上路，會唔會新的時代正式來臨。


李察回應：

你的問題很奇怪，但這也是許多不同文化的共通心理：

他們都渴想自己成為重心。

其實，凡是渴想自己領導群倫的人，通常都失敗的。

因為，那些都只是私心，而非真心。

文化的真正成就，出自真心。

真心前進，就會無私博愛，就能看到宇宙的真面，就能真正掌握時代規律。

未知李察先生又會否有此行為呢?

記得有個專欄作者說于丹是第二個毛澤東

因為據他所知,

繼毛澤東會在講說後對台下的問題作選擇性作答後

于丹是第二個

未知李察先生又會否有此行為呢?

一個逃避挑戰的人,往往會被卑視,

難道台上講者當真如此無知?


Victoria

李察回應：

你的問題，己經答了。
只是你沒有看。

反駁知識危機論 之二

Subject: 反駁知識危機論 之二
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:48:13 +0800


世界無窮願無盡,蒼天遼闊立多時

知識是無法窮盡,佢是一個 limit ( pure maths 的術語)

意思就像一個地球上的人奔趕太陽,他是永遠無法追趕

只可望而不可及.

我深信只要有人類存在的一日,新知識的誕生便不會停止

不管知識往後怎樣地被卑視,被封鎖

人的求知慾仍是不滅,因為這是天性

正如每個男人都想戳破女人閏房窗上的一層薄紙,

一睹裏面風景

即使在眾口噤嗟的時候,時代仍會呼喚出巨人

(如生物學所謂的mutation )

他是時代的摧化劑.如貝多芬

承先啟後

在看似山窮水盡的一刻,忽然奇峰特出,另起爐灶

by Victoria


李察回應：

謝謝你提出「精神危機」的想法。

李察十分欣賞這種想法。

而「精神危機」未必是跟「知識危機」對立的。

可能是「知識」兩字，範圍是比較窄的，容易使人誤會，
以為又是我們一向自幼被灌輸的死知識。

如果換了是：「文化危機」，又會使人不明所以。

但是，無論如何，「精神」問題，確是人類的最重要大問題。

只是，這些都是言詞之分。更重要的是看到整個的畫面。


李察謹上

反駁知識危機論

Subject: 反駁知識危機論
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:23:38 +0800


在學術的象牙塔裏,仍有好多人追求新的知識

舉例說,科學家仍孜孜不倦地找出一條能解釋

整個宇宙的一條公式,

每當有新的知識出世,學術雜誌便會紛紛介紹

需然關心學術的人不多,但熱心推廣的人還是有的

其實枯燥的學術永遠是學院派的人坐在書房裏的幾人話題

永遠都是燈火欄柵處一嶼冷僻的孤島

但這是不要緊的

正如德蘭修女,她參與了最寂寞的旅程,嬴得了世人的尊敬

她是沉迷世界裏的一柱精神岸燈,

在黑暗降臨的時刻,她會光芒大地,

在深谷的邊陲,把我地拉上來

可是現時象牙塔對岸的燈已熄滅

人類面對的是精神危機.


by Victoria

重要新聞： Al Gore 主張：美國十年內以電力代替石油

Al Gore has made another fierce attack on energy policy of american government, and the call for electricity to replace all fossil fuel energy by 2015.

------


Please click into the following:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/gore.energy/index.html#cnnSTCVideo.
(please cut and paste into the address line)


(this is CNN news, you could find the whole of the Al Gore speech inside.)
(besides the actual idea, you could find also HOW people are doing things
elsewhere)






(this link is provided by a reader)

MM 雜誌(怪書一本),?

ottello 已針對您的文章「萬人齊誦道德經」留下新意見：

狐狸先生/李察先生：

您好...

MM 雜誌(怪書一本),?

May i know why ?

衷心祝好

ottello 上

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From: victoriachan
To: academy2008@hotmail.com
Subject: QUESTION
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:56:40 +0800



之前send 了emial俾你,你還未有回覆.

想問你,是什麼東西成就了音樂?

如果你自小習琴,有紮實的基好功,

你會不顧一切地投入音樂嗎?

即使不能成名,最終只有教琴為生也不後悔嗎?


Leechard's feedback:

Sorry I dont have a Chinese Keyboard right now, so please forgive me
writing in English:

Fame is vanity.

if I can be a music teacher all my life, ofcourse I will be very very happy.....

though, I can be a writer all my life, the same thing is i have never become
famous, so I am sometimes quite upset with myself. But this is actually
very good to me. Because I know it from the bottom of my heart: that if I
am famous some day, I will lost my insight and lost my interest in life and
will not have a good progress.

The point is no matter whether you are famous or not, you need to keep walking
or crawling or flying all the time..........

Keep going is more important.

Leechard

我不能否定神的存在，

匿名 已針對您的文章「Jesus came to them walking on the lake」留下新意見：

我不能否定神的存在，但我亦無法肯定其之出現，不知李察先生有何看法


Leechard's feedback
sorry I dont have a chinese keyboard now , so have to write in English
...

I think quite the same with you sometimes, but now I come to a thought
that God is every where. He is just there, inside and outside you and
me.......

我有興趣看「無詩的中國」

未留名者 已針對您的文章「右腦是有沒有邏輯的？」留下新意見：

我有興趣看「無詩的中國」的幾篇短文啊。
能張貼多一次嗎?


李察回應：

待李察找找？

「右腦是有沒有邏輯的？」

幽思 已針對您的文章「右腦是有沒有邏輯的？」留下新意見：

右腦的「邏輯」應該是較著重一些概念或是一些象徵。
而這種「邏輯」也具有佛家「禪」的意味
只能領會,不能有硬性詮釋
所以一個問題有兩個以上的答案，
就是這意思吧。

李察回應；

難得你想到這比喻呢　

好過d人去取綜緩

Peggy 已針對您的文章「何謂「超級圖書館」？」留下新意見：

啊啊~~真係好好既構想, 好過d人去取綜緩.

Peggy

損失人命，僅二千萬

Dear Mr Leechard

It is disturbing that you say the death toll of China in WWII was ONLY 2,000,000. 中國損失人命，僅二千萬. Would it be better to say 中國損失人命，是二千萬.

Any deaths caused by human stupidity is regretful.


A Reader

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Leechard's Feedback

If you could perceive the picture:

the ratio between those lost their life and
those gain their life,

you will not have such feeling.

It is right-brain logic, please refer to today's article.

思想資料庫的強化版

未留名者　 已針對您的文章「何謂「超級圖書館」？」留下新意見：

啊......這不就是思想資料庫的強化版嘛=.=

proposal of labrary

Dear leechard,

Your proposal of labrary, a combination of laboratory and library, would provide the service of both institution to us as we have already enjoyed these for three hundreds years, since the beginning of latest oil culture. I believe and you are right to believe that it shall be a good instrument to enable us to explore the frontier of knowledge and develop new technologies to be applied in future. It would be your wish, as well as the wish of me, your readers, the intellectuals, and those who wish to save the mankind and earth, that this proposal would soon be true one day. Let us pray for God that by his mercy, labrary would be built as soon as possible and as many as possible, in every quarter of globe where there is a vast population of human live, and it would then become a source of new human thought.
I also wish to say a word or two on where labrary would be built.
Freedom of speech and thought is the first and essential element required by this institution. The high standard of tolerance of various opinions over a very sensitive issue, just like whether the Christ is a soul or human, which would be a main component of the freedom, should be the character of people in the place with labrary. I have seen, and I am sure you and your readers have seen these people nowadays, they are the people in Western world, the British, The American, the Dutch. If people shall not allow the words different from themselves to be heard, and ever expressed, i do not think that a labrary would still perform its duty well.
The high level of education of the population there is essential too. I expect they should have a good proficiency of the language used in their places, and some international languages, Chinese and English. They should have a sound understanding of the local and international affairs, just like the global warming. Music, Art should be the interest of them and they could appreciate many great musicians and artists, like Mozart, Handel. They should have learned much in science, Physics, Chemistry , Biology and Mathematics, Astronomy, Meteorology They could know what Newton laws of motion are and their application, how organic matters undergoes different type of reaction, the way using the differentiation and integrations in caculus, and they could know much about animals and plants, and different species living there and how the genetic knowledge is used. They would understand the impact of the rainstorm and drought to their life, and have the deep knowledge of planets and stars in the univense. Above all, they like to make many inventions, machines and tools, just like Mr Chen, that they are of use to human life.
I think that by these two qualities, that man in that place shall give the labrary the power to develop human thinking and revolutionize the world that it could move to a sunlit highland. I am pleased if you and your readers can find this article useful. If you can add your ideas in the requirement to make labrary successful, I shall be very happy
I wish to hear from you soon. I have no objection if you make this letter in public.

Best regards,
William

What do they think about Solzhenitsyn

In to day's International edition of the New York Times,
a writer Serge Schmemann talked about Solzhenitsyn.

Its worth reading, as he mentioned how Solzhenitsyn arrived
England the first time he left Russia, and talked very eagerly
with an Orthodox Theologian and Historian, because he wanted
to know the true history about Russia, as he had never have
the chance to read about. They talked for a long time.

And it is worth notice too, that the writer himself have a
comment on Solzhenitsyn. And this is his only comment.

He said: "Solzhenitsyn achieved his immortality before he
became conscious of his power, and then slid into irrelevant
pedantry."

What is "irrelevant pedantry"?

It means he is nothing.

Solzhenitsyn is the only writer who can comment deeply
on the modern value the Americans so care about. It is
the materialism Solzhenitsyn found in the States. It is
the same kind of materialism in Russia and United States.

So, some of the writers, like Mr. Schmemann, said
he is "irrelevant". And this is New York Times.

Leechard
2008.8.7

newsreport on the forecasting of the deteriorating climate by British scientists

william has left a new comment on your post "A Response to the Guardian Article by Khaled Diab":

Dear leechard,

I am very glad to share with you the newsreport on the forecasting of the deteriorating climate by British scientists :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange.

It is also a good supporting source to the article that i have written. I wish it can draw the attnetion of your readers and you on that matter as well.

Best regards,
william

good writers

william 已針對您的文章「《紀念索忍尼津》(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)」留下新意見：

Dear leechard,

I am glad that you have introduced a great russian writter who has a great insight into the social structure of western scoiety and is famous around the world. I remember that you have certain good articles on good writers and i wish you can make a collection, in the name of great writers, that includes all of these articles. it would faciliate the discussion and uderstanding of your ideas, just as i have discussed earlier. I am looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
william


Leechard's Feedback

Thanks to such good idea.

當年佛祖提出人既問題係無明

Peggy has left a new comment on your post "人口問題，為甚麼這樣重要？":

當年佛祖提出人既問題係無明, 現在要回答這問題恐怕要彌勒佛降生了!

Peggy

一次及二次世界大戰帶來人口暴增

李察先生:

你好,本人從http://leechardasks.blogspot.com/上看到一篇文章,題目為"人口問題，為甚麼這樣重要？",當中提到一次及二次世界大戰帶來人口暴增,本人才疏學淺,實在想不通其中的關連,希望李察先生能為我解開疑惑,謝謝!

讀者上

李察回應：

戰爭不能減少人口。二次大戰中，中國損失人命，僅二千萬。
但戰後人口大增。從統計圖中，可以見到戰後人口增長的驚人
情況。

《塞瑟島之旅》(Voyage to Cythera)

電影選播 : 《塞瑟島之旅》(Voyage to Cythera)

謝謝高抬貴手

敬告讀者：

在二零零八年八月一日到八月二日之間的一段時間，
李察網頁，無端被鎖上了。讀者只能看見第一頁的
部份畫面。其餘，被一個 pop up 訊息阻了。

訊息說：

internet explorer cannot open the internet
site http:\\www.leechardasks.blogspot.com\
operation aborted

有勞熱心的讀者來函查詢，李察才知道這回事。

到底是出了甚麼問題呢？

百思不得其解。最近有開罪甚麼朋友嗎？唯一想到，
最近只曾在網上略為提到了一份香港很有份量的「信報」。
也沒有批評甚麼。就算是真的有所批評，李察相信，信報
的編輯都是專家，根本不會放在心上。

幸運是，很短時間之內，網頁被重開了。

高手朋友們，謝謝您高抬貴手。

任何人，任何網，隨時可開可關。李察相信，以如此高明
的技術，從事電腦行業，很快會成功的。Bill Gates 也不
過如是。

李察是思想遲慢的。到了今天才想起：啊，原來是一周年了。
二零零七年的七月三十一日接信被炒，今天是被炒一周年紀念
呢。斷絕稿酬，也一周年了。

真是一個很有意思的紀念日啊。只是無端累李察失眠了幾天，
今日得見網頁重開，不知又會不會開心得睡不著了。

李察謹上

汽車要不要上廁所？

nightingale 已針對您的文章「我們可以怎樣苟延殘喘？」留下新意見：

李察先生，我睇完之後想到個問題？
如果汽車用澱粉做燃料，會否產生污染問題。
如果係有的，我地點樣做抉擇？


李察回應：

你的問題很有趣呢。
李察想到：如果汽車也吃澱粉，那麼，汽車也會排洩了。

或者，汽車會排洩一點有機肥料出來呢？

你猜，如果人類排洩需要廁所，汽車要不要上廁所？

為何無法登入李察網頁？？？

Dear Mr Leechard

When I tried to log on yr blog, I can only see a small part in the top, then I saw the pop out menu:

"internet explorer cannot display the webpage"

A few trials gave the same result.

I did not log on in the last few days, so I do not know when it started.

Try it yourself.

The news says that the Olympic reporters have restricted access to certain websites.

A Reader

希望李察兄聽音樂之時有更多啟發

李察兄,
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> 看了李察兄所寫有關" 石油問題 " 及"石油文化" 一連
> 串文章實在非常精彩, Peggy的回應也很有趣.
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> 最近聽了一隻新CD, 非常喜歡, 故再買了一隻送給李察兄欣賞
> (七月廾八日己寄出), 希望李察兄聽音樂之時有更多啟發, 令吾
> 等讀者受益.
>
> 宏
> 八月一日

李察回應：

十分謝謝!!!!

人口大約是很難自然地下降的呢。

Peggy 已針對您的文章「人口問題，是甚麼問題？」留下新意見：

如何令人能去主動愛人, 令人更有愛心呢?

Peggy


但而家中產以上既都唔肯生, 反而冇錢果d就會生, 發達地區既出生率一直下降, 如果人類越來越有錢, 就會越來越唔生, 人口應自然地下降吧!

Peggy


李察回應：

人口大約是很難自然地下降的呢。