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Amazing demographic and economic change!

Arif Rahman Iftikher
THE re-emergence of powerful Asian and non-Western industrial economies, such as China, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia,Thailand, South Korea, Japan, and others, after a 250 year hiatus is a story we have all been hearing about.
For most of history - in fact for thousands of years since the beginning of settled city life -■ the world's largest
economies, the most civilised and wealthiest and the most cultured and advanced societies were located in Asia. North Africa, the Middle-East, MesoAmerica (Mexico and Central America), and the Andean regions of South America. Europe was in the backwaters throughout this time period.
The G8 -- made up of exclusively Western nations - is no longer the dominant representatives of economic and political power and influence on the
global stage.
The G20 is made up of non-Western nations such as China, India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Turkey. These non-Western nations outnumber the Western nations in the world's most influential economic organisation.
Along with the economic redomination of the world by non-Western nations, there has been occurring the demographic reconquest of Western nations such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, and even Europe, by nonWestern peoples.
Throughout time immemorial, it has been indigenous/aboriginal and native American peoples who have represented the majority of the population of Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Australia, until full-fledged European settlement of these lands from 1750 AD
onwards.
The US Census Bureau released the national population estimates in 2009, showing that US was becoming older and more racially and ethnically diverse. The estimates found that nearly half of the nation's children younger than eighteen years of age belonged to a racial minority group in 2008, with 25% being Hispanic. As of 2008, fully 35% of the US's, population belonged to a racial minority group. People in this group were also younger and more fertile compared to white Americans.
By 2042, Hispanics (25%), African-Americans (16%), Asians and Pacific Islanders (9%), and Native Americans (2%) would outnumber whites Americans in the United States. White Americans would also be older, less fertile, and approaching senility 33 years from now.
New Zealand is oresentlv as racially
diverse as the US, with Maoris, Pacific Islanders, and Asians representing over 33% of the population, and these groups will replace white New Zealanders as the majority population of the country by 2040.
In Canada, Asians and Aboriginal peoples, amongst other visible minority populations, are increasing rapidly owing to mass migration, high fertility rates, and interracial mixture compared to the corresponding low fertility rates and older age amongst whites Canadians. By 2050, whites will become a minority in Canada. Already 25% of the population of all Canadians (myself included) and 33% of all children under the age of eighteen belong to a visible minority group.
Most interestingly, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian populations are increasing so rapidly in Europe that by 2100 half of all children in Eurone would
belong to these racial minority groups and whites will represent only 60% of the European population.
As an example, London, England, is already a racial-minority majority city with whites being a minority, a fate that has been shared by every major city in the United States years ago!!! Canada's largest cities of Toronto and Vancouver are already majority visible minority, while Auckland in New Zealand recently also became a majority non-white city.
In 1914,35% of the world's population was made up of people of European ancestry. In 2009, 14% of the world’s population is of European ancestry. By 2050 only 4% of the world's population would be of white European ancestry worldwide owing to the variety of factors mentioned earlier.
Anf Rahman Iftikher is an MBA student at Mcmaster University. Canada