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Found this in Yahoo! News:
Poll Finds Improved U.S. Race Relations
I find it a little sad that no one bothered to poll Asian Americans. We should have a voice, too! We're discriminated against, we have mixed marraiges, and we are also affected by affirmative action. I'd just like to see how my fellow yellow-brown people feel about these issues. Hmph. Thanks alot, Gallup.
But the results are quite interesting, some made me chuckle.
"In the poll of adults 18 and older, nearly 90 percent of whites, 73 percent of blacks and 78 percent of Hispanics said civil rights for blacks had somewhat or greatly improved.""78 percent of blacks, 61 percent of Hispanics and 57 percent of whites said they prefer to live in a mixed neighborhood"
"73 percent of Americans approve of interracial marriage. In a 1958 Gallup poll, when the question was posed only to whites, just 4 percent supported mixed marriages"
I'm glad things have changed since 1958!
It's good to know that race relations are getting better, but we as a country, still have a long way to go!
Posted by Yano at April 9, 2004 10:15 AMI wonder if they don't poll Asian Americans because Asian Americans have, generally, been quieter about their status in the country than have blacks or Hispanics. Also, maybe the Asian American population isn't as large a percentage of the population as the black and Hispanic populations. Not that they shouldn't poll Asian Americans.
Posted by: Trisha on April 9, 2004 02:48 PM4% back then compared to 73% now? yeah, that's a HUGE improvement in little more than 50 years...
Posted by: marie on April 9, 2004 06:39 PMInteresting poll results, but I am always a little learly of race-relates type polls b/c they somehow always leave people out and in this case Asian Americans. So is American only made up of Blacks, Whites and Hispanics? Sorry to go on like that...but if American is supposed to be a big "melting pot" INCLUDE everybody in the discussion. :)
Posted by: Monica on April 10, 2004 05:58 AM
