Cultural And Economic Separation In The United States

Cultural and Economic Separation in the United States

1.Introduction:

Separation and Segregation are still alive and active today in the United States. According the United States Census Bureau there are over 324 million people living in the United States establishing the U.S as the third largest country in the world. The U.S. Census Bureau officially identifies race currently, as five categories for data, including American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Asian and White. The United States classifies Americans ethnically, as Hispanic or non Hispanic. These races are separated or segregated not only by race but cultural and economic groups.

Cultural groups share language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors cultural practices, tradition, and history. Each race encompasses a multitude of different ethnic groups. Census data is the way the census counts who belongs to which racial group. The different cultural groups identified in the U.S. is done by United States Census Bureau. The Bureau calculated European descent (white). Whites constitute a large majority at about 223.6 million people, or 72 percent of the population. According to current census figures, in the year 2000 the largest minority was blacks, who number about 35 million, or 13 percent of the population. The Hispanic (Latino) population, which includes primarily people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent, estimated to number 31 million, or 12 percent of the population. The Asian population defined as people of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese and Indian origin. It is estimated that there are eleven million Asians, making up about 4 percent of the population. The Native American population, which includes natives of Alaska such as the Inuit and Aleuts estimated population a little over two million people, slightly over 1 percent of the population. Around a third of Native Americans live on reservations, trust lands, territories, and mother lands under Native

Who falls the categories of upper class, middle and lower class standards. Most Americans fall into the middle class or working class spectrum, these workers are employed in blue-collar industries, usually with lower levels of education making between 32,500 and $60,000. Upper middle class workers have college degrees and hold a higher position in the working class arena with an annual salary above $100,000. At the top of the economic ladder is the top 1% accruing more than $250,000 annually. "According to the Census Bureau, 46.2 million people—about 15 percent of the U.S. population—currently live below the poverty line, or the income level needed to make a bare-essentials living in the United States".(Money News) There is an explicit economic separation between our cultural groups in the United States with White Americans holding the upper and middle class and Blacks, Asian and Hispanics holding middle and lower class while Native Americans falling in the lower class, poverty level. The According to the Pew Research Center in examination of the Federal Reserve ,"the wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013 compared with eight times the wealth in 2010 and more than 10 times the wealth of Hispanic households, compared with nine times the wealth in 2010". It should be