Different numbers.
Mar. 11th, 2011 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieThe headline on a recent local paper, "County's minorities are now the majority". It says (based on census data? since all the comparisons are done to 2000?) that minorities make up 50.7% of the population. The greatest percentage *increases* are in Hispanic and Asian populations; the greatest absolute number of minorities is in the black population.
Just as an observation, I'm seeing more and more Asian kindergarten students with younger siblings. More than I saw two years ago.
The lunchroom has rotated some of the tables, which allows me to see more students at once. There are definitely students of just about every shade of skin tone in the lunchroom. However, with the long winter, some who would normally look more brown are looking more gray. It might also be the lighting in the lunchroom or the clothes colors they are wearing.
I sat behind a family at church on Ash Wednesday that were more Native American-looking than Hispanic, although they spoke Spanish.
Just as an observation, I'm seeing more and more Asian kindergarten students with younger siblings. More than I saw two years ago.
The lunchroom has rotated some of the tables, which allows me to see more students at once. There are definitely students of just about every shade of skin tone in the lunchroom. However, with the long winter, some who would normally look more brown are looking more gray. It might also be the lighting in the lunchroom or the clothes colors they are wearing.
I sat behind a family at church on Ash Wednesday that were more Native American-looking than Hispanic, although they spoke Spanish.
