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In regard to racial questions, I don't think it's a good idea to think aboutthis stuff too much. I prefer to rise about the averages than become a part of them. Just out of curiosity, here is some stats I've found.
Let's take a look at some facts and figures. I have these for US only, sorry.
US Based on Sex:
1 .In 1970 1 in 5 women were householders, now 1 in 3 are. 44% of US is single. There has never been a better time for a man of *any* race to expliot many targets. Unfortunately, it is less likely that a man will fall in love with *one* woman and stay with her forever. Many of these marriages of the past were aweful creatures anyway I suspect.
Females have outnumbered males since 1950, although the sex ratio is headed back up since the 1980's. The NE has the lowest sex ratio LOL.
Followed by the South. Alaska, Hawiaa, NV, and a couple other states
are giant **** farms. There is more females per males in central cities
than elsewhere. The bad news is when you exclude old farts, there is
really about the same (or more) men than women.
The US is a big place:
In 2000 The US had at least 281.4 million people.
226 million of those live in metropolitan areas. Of the 80%
the live in metropolitan areas, about 50% of those lived in
the burbs as of 2000.
Racial Crap:
In 2000, about 1 in 4 people were of a race other than white. That means if 25% of the people on your tube today were non-white, then they were not underrepresented. If it were less than 25%, then they were.
The whitest states in 2000 were Kentucky Iowa Idaho Maine West Virginia Montana New Hampshire N. Dakota Vermont Wyoming....
There are now more non-White AND non-Black racial members as there are black racial members in the United States. Yet, in my experience people tend to think first or only black when they hear the word minorty.
Asian and Pacific Islander were 3.8% of the population. Therefore, they should represent about 3.8% of the characters on television if the media is not under or over representing these people. Count em up and see what you get. More than half of all Asians live on the West coast, whereas more than half of blacks live in the south. I guess to be really specific, we'd have to look at regional TV. Only a small percentage of blacks live in the west, and only a small percentage of asians live in the Midwest.
Hispanic people make up a sizable percentage (perhaps 12.5%+) of the US, exact figure are hard to come by due to the questionable size of the illegal allien base. Are these people represented more fairly by the media than Asians or Arabs?
Recently, the percentage of people who are two or more races increased greatly. The reason why is until very recently people could not declare themselves as 2 or more races on the census
Hawaii is 21 percent mixed race, the highest of any state.
25 states have only 1-2% of the population as a mixed race, and almost all states were below 4%.
There has never been a time when black females have been less in number than black males in this century. Black women are more likely to head a
household than any other race of women, Asian women are least likely.
Interracial Marriage:
ON Asian Men's complaints: "Like most guys, Asian-American men are fairly reticent about admitting any frustrations in the mating game. But the news for them was even worse. Asian women had white husbands 3.08 times more often than Asian men had white wives. That means just over 75 percent of white-Asian couples featured a white husband and Asian wife.
That 3.08 ratio is up from 2.54 times in 1990. Oddly enough, the 1990 ratios for black-white and white-Asian marriages were mirror images of each other.
(In 2000, the white-Asian inequality was somewhat less severe among unmarried partners: 2.09 times as many white men cohabited with Asian women as Asian men cohabited with white women.)"
ON Black WOMEN's complaints: "African-American men had white wives 2.65 times more often than black women had white husbands. In other words, in 73 percent of black-white couples, the husband was black. This interracial gender gap is even sharper among black-white couples who cohabit without being married. Five times as many black men live with white women as white men live with black women. Although some commentators had predicted that this intermarriage disparity should be evening out, this 2.65 ratio actually was up slightly from 2.54 ratio in 1990. (The invention of the "multiracial" category in 2000 makes direct comparisons across time somewhat tricky, however.)"
"There were 6.15 times more couples where the husband was black and the wife was Asian than where the husband was Asian and the wife black."
ON Whites: "the number of interracial couples is steadily increasing, currently 96.5 percent of married non-Hispanic whites are wed to another non-Hispanic white." " Also, among whites, interracial marriage hasn't impacted one gender much more than the other. Although white women hunting for husbands, for example, suffer more competition from Asian women, they also enjoy increased chances to acquire a black mate. Thus, among non-Hispanic whites, for every 1,000 white women who are married, 1,006 white men are married. On a national level, this imbalance is close to imperceptible."
Overall: " Black women, though, argue that the most desirable black bachelors are likeliest to marry outside the race.
Looking at it another way, 18 percent of Asian wives have white husbands, while merely seven percent of Asian husbands have white wives.
Currently, six percent of black husbands are in an interracial marriage, compared to only two percent of black wives. (Fourteen percent of black men who are cohabitating without marriage have a white woman living with them, while only three percent of cohabitating black women live with a white man.) "
"There are currently more than 2 million interracial marriages,
accounting for about 5% of all marriages in the United States.
Black/white marriages account for approximately half a million.
Individuals in mixed marriages are likely to have a 30% higher
increase in stress, according to a University of Houston study."
Sources:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf
http://www.modelminority.com/article338.html
Let's take a look at some facts and figures. I have these for US only, sorry.
US Based on Sex:
1 .In 1970 1 in 5 women were householders, now 1 in 3 are. 44% of US is single. There has never been a better time for a man of *any* race to expliot many targets. Unfortunately, it is less likely that a man will fall in love with *one* woman and stay with her forever. Many of these marriages of the past were aweful creatures anyway I suspect.
Females have outnumbered males since 1950, although the sex ratio is headed back up since the 1980's. The NE has the lowest sex ratio LOL.
Followed by the South. Alaska, Hawiaa, NV, and a couple other states
are giant **** farms. There is more females per males in central cities
than elsewhere. The bad news is when you exclude old farts, there is
really about the same (or more) men than women.
The US is a big place:
In 2000 The US had at least 281.4 million people.
226 million of those live in metropolitan areas. Of the 80%
the live in metropolitan areas, about 50% of those lived in
the burbs as of 2000.
Racial Crap:
In 2000, about 1 in 4 people were of a race other than white. That means if 25% of the people on your tube today were non-white, then they were not underrepresented. If it were less than 25%, then they were.
The whitest states in 2000 were Kentucky Iowa Idaho Maine West Virginia Montana New Hampshire N. Dakota Vermont Wyoming....
There are now more non-White AND non-Black racial members as there are black racial members in the United States. Yet, in my experience people tend to think first or only black when they hear the word minorty.
Asian and Pacific Islander were 3.8% of the population. Therefore, they should represent about 3.8% of the characters on television if the media is not under or over representing these people. Count em up and see what you get. More than half of all Asians live on the West coast, whereas more than half of blacks live in the south. I guess to be really specific, we'd have to look at regional TV. Only a small percentage of blacks live in the west, and only a small percentage of asians live in the Midwest.
Hispanic people make up a sizable percentage (perhaps 12.5%+) of the US, exact figure are hard to come by due to the questionable size of the illegal allien base. Are these people represented more fairly by the media than Asians or Arabs?
Recently, the percentage of people who are two or more races increased greatly. The reason why is until very recently people could not declare themselves as 2 or more races on the census
Hawaii is 21 percent mixed race, the highest of any state.
25 states have only 1-2% of the population as a mixed race, and almost all states were below 4%.
There has never been a time when black females have been less in number than black males in this century. Black women are more likely to head a
household than any other race of women, Asian women are least likely.
Interracial Marriage:
ON Asian Men's complaints: "Like most guys, Asian-American men are fairly reticent about admitting any frustrations in the mating game. But the news for them was even worse. Asian women had white husbands 3.08 times more often than Asian men had white wives. That means just over 75 percent of white-Asian couples featured a white husband and Asian wife.
That 3.08 ratio is up from 2.54 times in 1990. Oddly enough, the 1990 ratios for black-white and white-Asian marriages were mirror images of each other.
(In 2000, the white-Asian inequality was somewhat less severe among unmarried partners: 2.09 times as many white men cohabited with Asian women as Asian men cohabited with white women.)"
ON Black WOMEN's complaints: "African-American men had white wives 2.65 times more often than black women had white husbands. In other words, in 73 percent of black-white couples, the husband was black. This interracial gender gap is even sharper among black-white couples who cohabit without being married. Five times as many black men live with white women as white men live with black women. Although some commentators had predicted that this intermarriage disparity should be evening out, this 2.65 ratio actually was up slightly from 2.54 ratio in 1990. (The invention of the "multiracial" category in 2000 makes direct comparisons across time somewhat tricky, however.)"
"There were 6.15 times more couples where the husband was black and the wife was Asian than where the husband was Asian and the wife black."
ON Whites: "the number of interracial couples is steadily increasing, currently 96.5 percent of married non-Hispanic whites are wed to another non-Hispanic white." " Also, among whites, interracial marriage hasn't impacted one gender much more than the other. Although white women hunting for husbands, for example, suffer more competition from Asian women, they also enjoy increased chances to acquire a black mate. Thus, among non-Hispanic whites, for every 1,000 white women who are married, 1,006 white men are married. On a national level, this imbalance is close to imperceptible."
Overall: " Black women, though, argue that the most desirable black bachelors are likeliest to marry outside the race.
Looking at it another way, 18 percent of Asian wives have white husbands, while merely seven percent of Asian husbands have white wives.
Currently, six percent of black husbands are in an interracial marriage, compared to only two percent of black wives. (Fourteen percent of black men who are cohabitating without marriage have a white woman living with them, while only three percent of cohabitating black women live with a white man.) "
"There are currently more than 2 million interracial marriages,
accounting for about 5% of all marriages in the United States.
Black/white marriages account for approximately half a million.
Individuals in mixed marriages are likely to have a 30% higher
increase in stress, according to a University of Houston study."
Sources:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf
http://www.modelminority.com/article338.html