The U.S. is experiencing significant demographic changes. In 2011, people of color made up more than half of all the country’s births. A look at the cultural shift that’s occurring as young people begin to inherit the country:
“Demographic changes — even seismic changes like those the U.S. is going through — happen over decades. It will be a long time before this young, much more plural America starts to fully reveal patterns of employment, migration, housing and wealth. But these young folks are already starting to create culture, and it bears taking a close look at what they’re making to see what it might augur about the world they’re going to inherit.”
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