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December 2000

Vol.3, No. 10

Contents

What Lies Ahead for U.S. Leadership?
   by Darris McNeely

U.S. Election Crisis - End of Political Stability?
   by Melvin Rhodes

World Watches U.S. Post- Election Predicament
   by Cecil Maranville

The Perfect Prophetic Storm
   by Mario Seigle

In Brief...World News Review
    by Darris McNeely,
   Cecil E. Maranville
   John Ross
   Ross Schroeder

This is the Way...One Moment in Time
   by Robin Webber

Dec '00 WNP Main

In Brief...
World News Review

U.S. Population Statistics Show Looming Issues

"United States in Throes of Rapid Change" headlined an Agence France Presse article published November 1, 2000. Statistics recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau are indicators of issues that will confront the U.S. government and citizenry in the next few decade....

The report showed that 26.4 million of the 275 million people in the U.S. population, nearly 1 in every 10, was born outside of the United State.... Famous for its "melting pot" attitude, the U.S. has championed its historic ability to assimilate people from diverse cultural and political backgrounds into the fabric of its representative republic. That's not necessarily the case any longer.

Consider the language issue. Increasingly controversial measures to legislate or to deny bilingual education resound in states with large Hispanic population.... Some 6.5 million people speak little English, while 17.3 million speak Spanish exclusively. The recent U.S. presidential election campaign demonstrably illustrated the need to reach out to and include the sizable block of Hispanic voter....

Immigration during the years of nation building for the U.S. was chiefly from white nations of Europe and other Anglo-Saxon people.... However, a fundamental shift is underway that portends political and cultural changes in years to come. Within the next 50 years, African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans will outnumber white.... Presently, 71 percent of the population are white.

The number of people 65 and older will double in the next 30 years

Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0012/inbrief0012.htm


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