 A new study from the Census Bureau reveals that immigrants are the reason why the United States population is still on the rise, but how does that make some people feel, guys? There's a wide range of opinions, feelings, and a little bit of fear, but we're gonna have a real conversation here because we don't wanna be divisive. I'm telling you, this article in the Associated Press got my blood boiling. That's all I'll say, okay? Whether you don't know the direction it got my blood boiling, but it was boiling. What did it say? Immigration drove white Asian population growth in the US last year. This article was written by Mike Schneider, Andrew. It went very viral on Yahoo News. A lot of boomers chiming in, having some, you know, I guess stereotypical comments, but also some non-stereotypical comments. We're here to break it down because Andrew, silly to serious. I'm gonna go ahead and put this, what, more in the serious category? Because it has to do with the changing racial demographics of America and how dominant historical populations feel good or feel bad about it. It sounds serious, but maybe I wanna talk about it in a silly way. The race was in America. Make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications. All right, guys, let's get into the meat of it. I think the title is a little bit confusing, but what it's trying to say is due to all the immigrants that came over, including white immigrants, which we will explain what that is in a second, it actually helped boost the numbers of the population so that it's actually increasing. Otherwise, without the immigration, of course, the American population would be in a negative decline. Yeah, and I think that there's a lot of feelings about it because I think everybody knows that America needs to be a growing country for capitalism's sake, right? That is macroeconomics 101. You need to keep pumping the system full of workers, paying taxes into social security, but Andrew, there's a whole societal angle where previously dominant populations, maybe people who have descended from Western Europeans, they're kind of uncomfortable as we move towards 2045, Andrew, because at one point, their racial statistics was 90%, 80%, 70%. What are we at, 60% right now? 2045 is gonna be 50%. Right, right, right. And then that will be where the white is the minority, but then that phrase sounds bad because people are like, what, I'm gonna be treated like a minority? What, you mean the roles are gonna be switched? I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not how it's gonna work. Right, that's assuming that all the minorities get along with each other. Well, not even that, it all assumes that the world just gets flipped, anyways, that's not how it works. That's just a triggering phrase. Anyways, guys, we're gonna get into the comments section because there's a lot of people weighing in. But yeah, I mean, a notable note, David, is that the Asian group, people who identify as Asian, that number increased 2.4% in one year in America, David, that's not just East Asian and Southeast Asian, I think that includes South Asian and also even Central and Western Asian too, possibly. So I think the number of people who are identifying as Asian because there's only four different groups, white, Hispanic, black and Asian, essentially that's all their measurements. All they track, even though it gets way more nuanced, Andrew, what is somebody from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, are they gonna put that they're Russian and Slavic or are they gonna put that they're Asian cause a lot of people though in those countries are mixed. If you're a white Latino, most people think that Latinos are about 70% Spanish, 30% indigenous, like, you know, Aztec and Mayan. Well, what if you're like 20% are you suddenly white when you come to America? David, are you asking people to look at other people in a nuanced way? You want people to have nuance, you want people to think more about other people? You're crazy. Well, let's get into the comment section. Somebody said, what is the most important thing for an immigrant to accept our constitution, respect our laws, conform to the norms and social fabrics of our society, apart from that little else matters, including race. I don't really care what race you are, as long as you follow our social norms. And that's the part of that statement that's like a little bit hard for, some people are gonna be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You said that real simply. Yeah, yeah, we'll just follow whatever I do. Then you're good. Me like me and I won't hate you if you're looking. I agree, people gotta follow the constitution, follow the law and pay your taxes. And I would say on a secondary, you know, learn a few words of English, you know, just so that you can interact with each other. But I don't know, social norms, I mean, I think those are just evolving in general, even evolving amongst white Americans or white Americans. Yeah, and I think that there's the capitalistic aspect and then there's the societal fabric aspect. And obviously this varies a lot depending on who you talk to, their entitlement of feeling like distribution ratios are in their favor, our narratives are in their favor or not. Somebody said, you know, productive and good law-abiding citizens are more than welcome and are much needed. Shame we can't exchange good folks around the world with the bad folks that we already have here. Basically saying, man, we just need more good people, please, can we get the good people and get rid of the bad people? And if we can't get rid of the bad people because they're already here, can we just get more good people to average it out? Well, how do you attract more good people or how do you make people into good people? You gotta accept them in and you gotta welcome them with open arms. And if you keep rejecting them or looking at them as weird, that's only gonna begin this cycle of them feeling rejected in them, them not taking pride in it and all this stuff. Are you saying, Andrew, that there's a lot of sides to this and there's a lot of sides of the coin? Yeah, I agree with the statement. That's cool, it'd be cool to just get good people and then get the bad people out. Yeah, I don't know how you do that, but anyways. Somebody said, well, let's be honest, I'm not gonna mince words. We are being invaded. The racial demographics in terms of Western Europeans, descent, heritage Americans, it went from 90 to 80 to 70 to 60. Now we're headed for 54 to 30, 20. I don't like it. Invaded against your will. No, most of these immigrants are coming over legally, but I'm like, where's all the Europe, bring some Western Europe, bring the Germans over. How come Germans don't wanna move to America? I don't want to go. Like, you know, my great, great, great, great granddad, because he took his family, but you know. Where's all the Swedish immigrants, huh? How come they're not? Where's all the Icelandic? Where's all the, you know, where are they at? Why don't you get them over? They're enjoying too much good social floor systems. Somebody saying, man, this was such a liberal media piece saying that whites are coming to America. Let's be real, me as a white Anglo-Saxon, I do not consider white Mexicans, Arabs, Iranians. They all counted as white on the census, but they're not white to me. Yeah, this is the issue because like all those groups would be counted as white on the census between those four main groups. So I guess it's pretty simplified, but I guess the white group is really big. That's why the white group even increased at all is because it relied on the white Mexicans, Arabs, and Iranians to be counted as white. If you were just basing it off Anglo-Saxon or Western European foundational white people, it would have decreased. The key word is foundational. How could you have anything without us? Don't forget us. It's the foundation. I mean, listen, man, I think for me, I wish there was more racial nuance in America. I've been fighting for disaggregation of American, you know, Asian-American statistics. It's not like, you know, I mean, at least stating my support for the disaggregation of it. And I think it would help everybody, but you know what it would require Andrew? Like, not everybody's like me or you where we study a lot of different types of people and these even, you know, difficult to describe gray area groups, you know? A lot of people want to paint other people that are not their group with like the most simple crayon box possible. Nobody trying to bust out the 128 crayon box because, you know, I feel like they don't care enough about each other to do that. Somebody said illegal immigration is a security risk, a health risk and a drain on the economy due to the drain on the legal system. Obviously, let's be honest. This is probably, and by the way, there's legal and illegal immigration of every group, but it's probably targeted more towards, probably Latinos, right? Right, right. I mean, they just physically cross over a physical border, right? Yeah, I guess. I mean, I don't know how big of a drain on the system and the economy it is. I am aware based off the CNN article, and for many years people have talked about how a lot of undocumented immigrants actually do pay taxes, more taxes than you would think. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know. You know, there's always this balance between securing your borders, being a sovereign nation, but also being such an immigrant country that wants great talent and needs a workforce. So I don't know. I mean, it's a very push and pull, man. Well, I think that if you talk to anybody, they would acknowledge that there's some sort of balance of pros and cons and great area of factors that could go either way, but a lot of people would weigh them differently, depending on their self-interest or just their positioning or their perspectives or their life experiences. Somebody said, good news about the Asian immigrant part. Here in California, they increase the property values and they improve the schools when they move into the neighborhood. Great. And then somebody said, yeah, but the problem with these slants is they're all about themselves and their leftists, which kind of made me laugh. But somebody said, come on, there's gang members too. There's bad apples in every group. They might not be doing street violence, but they got all those illegal massage parlors. They got gambling dance. They don't pay their taxes. They're probably cooking dogs. What do you think, man? These people will never be happy. Listen, man, I think- It's true every group got good and bad. I think every side could lean in to each other a little bit more and unite. I think immigrants, there is an amount of healthy assimilation that needs to happen a little bit more, a little bit more, but also I do think the Americans that are already here need to also be more welcoming. I remember back in the early 90s or the 80s or 70s when our parents were here in America, I think there were so many programs and there was just this kind of open arm culture of white people being like, hey, you're new to this country. Why don't you come on in for dinner, blah, blah, blah. Now times have changed. I get it. It's not really like that, but- You're saying the hands across America things are over, right? I think a lot of people stop putting in that work and maybe, I don't know why. Assimilation is a two-way street. Absolutely. I do agree that I wish I could update a firmware deck into every immigrant's brain about how to move and what they should do or they shouldn't do or like how to position their kids that most be successful, also add value to America. But it is difficult, you know? But at the same time, the heritage foundational groups, they need to accept the people too, right? They can't just be like making it all tribal off the rip because then that's gonna just create more tribalism, right? There's this comment that says AI, artificial intelligence is going to eliminate jobs quicker than our population decline. Right, because a lot of people were talking about, well, you need population. And then somebody arguing against that was like, well, AI's gonna eliminate all these jobs anyway, so we don't want immigration. Interesting. Listen, people still have kids. It is macroeconomics 101 though that capitalism needs workforce. It needs people to be productive or work low-level jobs, medium-level jobs, hard jobs, office jobs, service jobs, retail jobs, blue collar jobs, manual labor jobs, all types of jobs, need more people to just work those jobs, take the money, consume, but then continue the system. Somebody said, American-level consumption is only feasible for three billion people on earth, and we already got eight billion people. Just stop creating people in general. What about if we stop creating things? Why should we stop creating people, but is it because people need things? But there's so many things to buy. We should stop making things. Yeah, man, like we said, there's a lot of angles to this. It's not just like, I look like this, you look like this, I have this, you have that, and then it's as simple as that. I'm not saying that's not a component of how societies run. There's like so many other parts too. You can make tweaks there. Well, what if this stayed, whatever. Somebody said, diversity is an experiment that is still in session. And to me, as an older, white American, I feel like it is kind of failing, but I'm not sure. And somebody else came through and said, oh yeah, diversity doesn't work for you, even though America was built up by black American slaves and Chinese built the railroads, that wasn't diversity. Right. Well, no, you just don't like diversity because the minorities are now rising up and demanding more things or succeeding over you. Look at all the Disney shows, man. It's like, I can't even relate to any of the new characters in any of the Disney plus shows. Oh man, I do wish it was that diversity when just everybody would just buy into white culture and just serve me and make me feel good about myself. Right, right, right. I get it, but come on, man, that's not happening anymore. You had a great run, man, just share a little bit. We're not saying that you're gonna be, you know, in a way like, it's not gonna get reversed, right? It's not like foundation of white Americans are gonna get treated like how immigrants were. You're still gonna be white, man. It's still gonna be good, trust me. Somebody said, we have way too many people in the US. And somebody said, really, China is roughly the same land mass as the US. And they literally have four Xs, the amount of people. That is true, that is true. And maybe that has to do with like how Chinese people can just not beat each other up in the street, man, because it would just be too crazy. I'll tell you this, if Chinese people beat each other up every time they shoulder checked each other in the street on accident, it would just be the MMA capital of the world, okay? Somebody said, in 3,000 years, there will not be any distinctive race on earth anymore because we will all look kind of like light brownish Asian looking. And then there's a bunch of photos of like what all people are gonna look like. Andrew, do you think that this is gonna solve or like kind of calm down some of these like worries that were expressed in the comment section of this article? I think that it's tough, but like if Americans can generally start uniting around certain things, maybe not just politics, because politics is so divisive, but if they can unite around like food events or sports events or like the good old American things, it's almost like we need to almost start back at the basics. Those things really used to bring people together. And I think it's unfortunate right now that the world is so divisive as it becomes more diverse too. Right? And I think people always associate that diversity with divisiveness, which obviously there's some truth to it because people who are diverse are different from one another. But how can you build a stronger American fabric? Like what are we doing? And so I think it takes both groups, the minorities, the immigrants, and maybe the pre-existing like foundational like Americans. Right? And we'll just say white and black Americans on this side. It's like they need to move a little closer together. Yeah. I mean, ultimately I think that man, there's so much stuff to go around. I wish, like I said, I wish I could do a firmware update into all immigrants heads and give them a game plan. It'd be up to them to execute it, but like how to be successful and add value to America in a macro perspective, but be successful for them in their lineages and their generations. They're gonna be here, but that's just not how it works. But also people gotta accept them, you know? And we gotta figure it out. I don't really have the solutions to this. I think it's like really, really, really complicated, especially if you're like taking the feelings generated by the fact from the older generations that may feel entitled to a certain splits. You know what I noticed is like people really hate being blamed for things. White people hate being blamed for stuff, right? That they are not particular, they were not personally responsible for. Asians and immigrants alike do not wanna get blamed for how the country is going. Nobody wants to get blamed, right? And people hate it. And if you start to blame the other group to get so mad at you, then it divides people. So I don't know really what the solution is. I always thought that they needed to have a government, like you know in a lot of countries and even in Canada, Australia as well, they actually have a governmental organization that is designed to make everybody get along with each other. We don't have that in America. We leave it up to free market capitalism. That's what some people love about America because obviously compared to Australia, compared to Canada or New Zealand, America's economy is much more dynamic, but we could look at some of the things they do too and be like, yeah, I'm gonna take that too. You know, like, yeah, like why does everything have to be so market-driven? I don't know. Maybe people need a government organization, but maybe there needs to be like some more better like at the Met, there needs to be some like museum exhibit of like Americans uniting or American food around America or like what is like, you know, maybe there needs to be this big American food festival. I don't know, like. Like something like how Power Rangers and Captain Planet was, but less contrived and more realistic and like actually real and then like, you know, people address their differences. A diverse team of different. And they talk it out and they make jokes about each other, but they're all cool at the end. So like all the dirty laundry is like aired, but then I always have been such a big fan of like airing dirty laundry and over time, I feel like the dirty laundry stops smelling. That's my general opinion. That needs to be a show. Someone needs to, the government needs to fund a network that is about uniting Americans. That's gonna be interesting. Let us know what you guys think in the comment section below. Like I said, I don't think there's any silver bullet solution to this, especially if you want to convince everybody. It's really difficult to do that. Keep it civil. Until next time with a hop-up boys, we out. Peace.