I've been quite, because I'm still overwhelm ----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 03:21 am, Dan Minette wrote: > > You and I have a different understanding of spiralling, then. The > non-European ethnic makeup of GB is 2.8%. They are optimistically > projecting enough immigration to make this about 6% or so in 20 years. > And > its the shining star. >http://society.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4605024,00.html > >" Two boroughs of Britain have more black and Asian people than white >people for the first time ever, according to figures from the 2001 >census published today. There is a world of difference between two bouroughs and two states. I'm not that familar with British political divisions, but it appears that there are 33 buroughs in London alone. The combined population of California and Texas is about 57 million and rising fast. With the population of London at just over 7 million, and 33 buroughs, the average London burough population is roughly 220,000. So, two buroughs are a bit under half a million. There is a lot of difference between the impact of these two numbers. >Data from the £200m survey showed that there were 4.5 million people >from ethnic minorities in the UK in 2001 - 7.6% of the total >population. The ethnic minority population of England rose from 6% in >1991 to 9% in 2001. I quoted the CIA factbook for 2002. You quoted two media sources. On the whole, I would tend to believe the factbook over media sources. But, the BBC has a decent reputation, so I spent a little time looking up the numbers. It appears that the percentage of minorities is really closer to 7.5% than 2.8%. I'm curious to see why the factbook missed the numbers by so much, since they usually get them from the governments of the countries. So, I'm now leaning strongly towards the 7.6% number that you quoted. Whites made up 39.4% of people living in the east London borough of Newham and 45.3% in Brent in the north-west of the capital." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1556901.stm >"Britain's ethnic minorities are growing at 15 times the rate of the >white population, newly-published research shows. But, as a percentage of the minority population, not as a percentage of the total population. That really that this is not absolute, but as a percentage Nevertheless, it may very well be that Great Britain will end up being less European and more tending towards a GB-American alliance worldview. If this is true, then GB could end up with a population that has close to the US's present ethnic makeup in 50 years. The other alternative is that the whites will decide they don't want this, and close immigration. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
