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Cultural Competence for Public Managers
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Cultural Competence for Public Managers

by Espiridion Borrego, Richard Greggory Johnson lll
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
13h 41m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 16

What the Future Holds: More Change

Necessity is the mother of all inventions.

Author unknown, though ascribed to Plato

16.1 Introduction

The United States is still projected to become a no racial/ethnic majority nation sometime between 2040 and 2050 (Ortman and Guarneri 2009). A report by the Pew Hispanic Center on the 2010 census (Passel, Cohn, and Lopez 2011) shows that racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the population growth from 2000 to 2010, Hispanics accounted for 56%, and non-Hispanic whites accounted for 8.3% (see Table 16.1).

One out of every three people in the United States is nonwhite. The same Pew report lists these states as having the largest Hispanic population growth: South Carolina, Alabama, ...

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ISBN: 9781439828076