A Different America In 2040: More Young Minorities, More Muslims Than Jews, Older Average Age Population

In just one more generation, America will be a very different nation than it was when I was born at the time of the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944) in World War II’s last few months.

This blogger was born in New York City as a minority, a Jew in a primarily Protestant white America, with large percentages of Italian and Irish Catholics as the so called “minority”, along with Jews.

Yes, there were some African Americans in my graduating class, along with a few Puerto Ricans and Asian Americans, and even one native American young man.

But the idea that a century or so after my birth, in the 2040s, that we would have a population of aging white people in a nation rapidly rising in average age, and with a majority of young people being Latinos, Asians and African American ethnicity, and with more Muslims than Jews in the population, is indeed astounding.

But this is not something to mourn over, but see it as a challenge, to make a nation truly international in origin, not just from Europe, prosper and move ahead toward future challenges with optimism.

So the future is NOT the racist, nativist, white supremacist, antisemitic, and Islamophobic message sent out by Trump supporters, who also wish to control women and gays and lesbians, but rather to embrace the diversity of our nation and lead the world in tolerance.

This is something I wish for as I am now part of the aging population that wants a great future for the nation he loves!

3 comments on “A Different America In 2040: More Young Minorities, More Muslims Than Jews, Older Average Age Population

  1. D May 24, 2019 11:02 am

    ‘Theresa May announces resignation date in tearful remarks after Brexit revolt’

    • CBS News | 05.24.2019 | 09:36 a.m. ET •
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prime-minister-theresa-may-resign-date-announcement-today-tearful-remarks-after-brexit-revolt-live-updates-2019-05-24/

    LONDON — Beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Friday [May 24, 2019] that she will resign on June 7, following a mutiny in her Conservative Party over her handling of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. May met with the leader of a group of hardline Brexit supporters from her party earlier Friday to agree a timetable to stand down and allow a successor to be chosen from amongst the Conservative ranks.
    May is expected to continue as caretaker prime minister until her party elects a new leader. That internal election process will begin in the days immediately following her resignation on June 7. The leader of the party automatically becomes the prime minister.

    …

  2. Ronald May 24, 2019 2:27 pm

    Thanks, D, for posting this, and I fear that it is a sign of the end of the UK as a major nation, and another sign of Trumpism triumphant, which makes me fear for the future of America as we become more multi racial and multi religious!

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