America is a mixed-race country. What kind of hybrids are the most?

The Anglo-Saxons were the first to explore this vast land, but the descendants of the British now account for only 15% of the total population of the United States. The other two main ethnic groups are Germans (13%) and blacks (12%). 1980, whites accounted for 85% of the total population of the United States. Because the race registration method in the l5 census in the United States is "self-reported", the race items in the registration form of each census are not consistent, so the numbers and proportions are often confused. According to the census of 1980, there are 654.38+88 million whites, 27 million blacks and1570,000 "others". Spaniards (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, etc. ) was listed as "other" in this census.

Besides whites, blacks are the most important race in America. At the first census in l790, blacks accounted for 19% of the total population, of which 92% were slaves. Due to the influx of white immigrants, the proportion of blacks in the total population of the United States fell to 9.7% in 1930, and returned to l0.5%% in l960. Due to the gradual decrease in the number of white immigrants and the high fertility rate of blacks, the number of blacks and their proportion in the total population have been increasing since the 1950s. There are about 28.2 million blacks in 1983, accounting for 12% of the total population. It is estimated that the number of blacks will reach 36 million in 2000 and 52 million in 2050. By then, the total population of the United States is expected to be 309 million, and the proportion of blacks will be 17%.

Table 2 shows the racial and ethnic composition of the American population, as shown in the census results of 1980. White people account for 84.6%, black people account for 12.2%, Asians (Chinese [1], Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipinos and Indians) account for about l.5%%, and Hispanics (Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) account for about 0.9%. There are only1400,000 native Indians in the United States. Due to the increase in the number of Asian immigrants in the 1980s, the Asian population in the United States now accounts for about 2% of the total population in the United States. It can be seen that the United States is still a "white country", and the main racial contradiction is between the two most populous ethnic groups (whites and blacks). But in the future, with the rapid growth of black population and the increase of Asian immigrants caused by high fertility rate, the racial composition ratio of the United States may change slowly in the future.

Except for ethnic minorities (such as Jews), intermarriage among white people is very common. In the 1980 census, one third of Americans said they had mixed ancestry, 50 million people said they had some British ancestry, and 23 million people (more than one tenth of the total population) told the census takers that they didn't speak English at home. Marriage between whites and blacks was forbidden for a long time. Until 1963, 265,438+0 states prohibited blacks from marrying whites. 1964, the law promulgated by the federal court abolished the law prohibiting racial marriage in state laws. After 1980s, the intermarriage between blacks and whites increased, and some successful blacks married white wives. In American ethnosociology, the marriage between a black man with high social status and high income and a white woman with low social status and low income is called "marriage", which means that white women improve their status and income through marriage by virtue of their skin color.

A large number of interracial marriages make the classification of Americans more complicated, but skin color and language still distinguish and agree with each other. At the same time of national integration, there are still racial and cultural boundaries between ethnic groups.