Make America a truly diverse melting pot

You know how some people refer to America as a melting pot even though almost 3/4 of the population is white. Well, let's truly make this diverse and have a white minority by the end of the 20th century. Either increase immigration, or something, make America truly diverse. :p
 
Next to impossible. You could probably get more than a few white minority states (South Carolina and Missipi had black majorities pre-great migration and if Chinese immigration is allowed unabated you could end up with Chineese California). The problem I see though is that the number of whites is gonna keep going up in relation to colored groups because of immigration from European countries (and you can't really stifle that without also stiffling nonwhite immigration).
 
Have the various "White" ethnicity not considered white, like in the old days. Jews, Greeks, Irish, Swedish, and so on weren't considered "White" only WASPs were. That'd meet the conditions.
 
Have the various "White" ethnicity not considered white, like in the old days. Jews, Greeks, Irish, Swedish, and so on weren't considered "White" only WASPs were. That'd meet the conditions.

Except an America that is less inclusive towards other "white" groups is also probably gonna be less tolerant of immigration in general. Which is gonna mean that less people immigrate in the first place.
 
Have the various "White" ethnicity not considered white, like in the old days. Jews, Greeks, Irish, Swedish, and so on weren't considered "White" only WASPs were. That'd meet the conditions.

This post kind of highlights why the OP and the title are nonsensical. America is a truly diverse melting pot. It's only been in the last generation or so that 'white' has emerged as an identity encompassing all ethnic groups with white or lighter colored skin. Back in the day, it would be a big deal if you were from Italy or the child of Italian immigrants.

As for 'making the US less white', that's as simple as finding a way to prevent the Asian Exclusion policy of the 19th century. Imagine a wave of immigration from East Asia comparable in size to the one from Europe.
 

KaiserCorax

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F.Y.I white, or whatever you want to call it is a real race, unless you're completely blind. Europeans all share common haplogroups and genetics so they are grouped as a distinguishable race, much as Blacks, Australoids and East Asians.

Also, diversity doesn't mean white minority. 30% white 30% black and 30% Asian would be diversity you want.
 

Dirk_Pitt

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F.Y.I white, or whatever you want to call it is a real race, unless you're completely blind. Europeans all share common haplogroups and genetics so they are grouped as a distinguishable race, much as Blacks, Australoids and East Asians.

Also, diversity doesn't mean white minority. 30% white 30% black and 30% Asian would be diversity you want.

We're not talking about genetics, but perception.
 
F.Y.I white, or whatever you want to call it is a real race, unless you're completely blind. Europeans all share common haplogroups and genetics so they are grouped as a distinguishable race, much as Blacks, Australoids and East Asians.

Also, diversity doesn't mean white minority. 30% white 30% black and 30% Asian would be diversity you want.

Please tell that to my ancestors, who were not considered "white" because they were Irish, Germans and Poles.

Now as a person from the Upper Midwest, I think part of the solution may be preventing American involvement in WW1 and, as a result, WW2. The Upper Midwest had some very vibrant and energetic German and Scandinavian communities which dwindled because of America's involvement in these wars; where speaking any language save English was seen as a sign of lack of patriotism.

Without these, you may still have very vibrant communities who speak German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and the like as second languages, at the very least (yes, I know that the Norse nations were not on the side of Germany in either of these ways; but you would be surprised how little that matters to home grown patriots at the time; this forces people to choose an side and identity).

Although this may not lead to what, we today, consider a truly multi-national United States, it would be even more multi-cultural which is a good step in the direction of the original power.
 
The tricky thing is if you measure "melting pot" by percentage of "white" residents, the way to do it is with fewer European immigrants, but by any other measure that makes America less diverse. The only solution, therefore, agreeable to both sides is higher immigration of "non-whites". Unless anyone wants more slaves imported in the early 19th Century -- and I'm guessing that's not the direction we're going for here -- then more African "immigrants" aren't too likely. Would a larger Hispanic population count? Or is that only for those that don't "pass" as white? It may be the only plausible large immigrant groups guaranteed not to become "white" in future generations are from the "Asian" half of the human population.

As for 'making the US less white', that's as simple as finding a way to prevent the Asian Exclusion policy of the 19th century. Imagine a wave of immigration from East Asia comparable in size to the one from Europe.

Let's play with this -- say President Garfield isn't assassinated in 1881, then vetoes (or threatens to veto, killing) the Chinese Exclusion Act the next year (let's also say he's re-elected in 84, keeps the law from passing at least until the rest of the decade). How many more Chinese and others from the East immigrate to America, and how much more does this grow the community of them and their descendants? Will the Exclusion Act still be passed at some point, and if so, when? And what effects does the larger (and altered?) Asian American have on the particular states affected (like California), as well as the America overall?
 
Italians, Irish, Greeks, Jews, Syrians, Lebanese, English, Native Americans, Dominicans, Afro-Americans, Mexicans...


America is already multicultural. In fact, you can't get more multicultural than this. This thread is really nonsense.
 
I've read that whites are rapidly on the way to being a minority in the US. I believe that within the next decade or so, hispanics will be the top group.

Anyhow, to speed up the issue, do one of two things: don't limit immigration, which really put the brakes on non whites entering the country (legally, at least). make birth control available earlier and continue the trend of whites reproducing at a lower rate than non whites.

Don't know how far back the 'melting pot' term goes. It was used when I was a kid back in the 70's and had obviously been around for a while. I'm thinking it came about in a time when the US had a lot of different nationalities, but they certainly weren't 'melted' into one pot. It wasn't that far before my time when it was heresy that a one christian faith married a different christian faith, let alone hang out with someone of a different race.
 
dON'T GENOCIDE THE NATIVES; ENSLAVE THEM LIKE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THAN SLOWLY INTEGRATE/FORGET ABOUT THEMAS SERFS UNTIL THE MODERN ERA.
 
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