Majority/Minority Projection - NPR

I was cruising on the way home yesterday, listening to NPR and this interesting tidbit came on. Admittedly I didn't get to listen to the whole thing, I am now, but I read through the transcript previously. It's basically a breakdown of how the census has changed to identify minorities, how those minorities view themselves, and how people feel the data plays a role for them. It's hosted by Ailsa Chang, a noted investigative journalist. A few things I found interesting:

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Originally Posted by Ailsa Since the very first U.S. Census in 1790, the government has changed its definitions of racial categories more than 10 times. This week, NPR's Invisibilia podcast looks at the shifting boundaries around race and the continuing challenge over who belongs in which racial box

The first part really deals with a social experiment that worked with how white people feel about the "shrinking majority" of white people:

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Originally Posted by Yowei Shaw, Byline It was 2015, and [Richard] Alba, a sociology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, had written about Census Bureau projections, forecasting that the U.S. population would no longer have a white majority by midcentury.

This was extremely interesting to me:

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Originally Posted by Yowei Shaw, Byline White people might even be redefining whiteness. Abascal recently conducted a study in which whites were presented with photos of various Latinos. And she found that when told about future white decline, whites were less likely to classify the faces as white, compared to those who hadn't heard about the projections

It then goes on to discuss how white people might not have as much of a shrinking majority but rather people identify as more than one ethnicity now. They speak with a woman:

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Originally Posted by Shaw Take the case of Hannah Liu and her brother Allen, who have a white Jewish mom and a Taiwanese immigrant dad. Today, at 25, Hannah identifies as mixed race, Asian American and definitely not white, though she says people are sometimes surprised.

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Originally Posted by Hannah Liu I also have told people that I identify as a person of color. And they've said no, you aren't.

Anyway, it says it's about an 8 minute listen. I read it in much less than that, but it does have some pauses, sound bites, music, etc. I don't know I have much to discuss, I just found it interesting whenever people discuss changing demographics.

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