The complex sugars were long thought to have no biological significance, even though they constitute up to 21 percent of milk.
These qualities make Asian-Americans desirable to marketers, even though they constitute only 4percentt of the nation's total population.
Competition over landownership is a source of rivalry and resentment: the land rights of Muslims are tightly restricted inside the special districts, even though they constitute the region's second-largest group, after the Bodos.
Why have Indian-Americans won the Scripps-Howard spelling bee for the third straight year and eighth time in a dozen years, even though they constitute less than one percent of the population?
But our neighborhoods continue to be segregated by race and class (how often do you go above 125th street?); women continue to be paid less than men (although thank you, Lilly Ledbetter); and the prison system is vastly disproportionate (63percentt of inmates are black or Latino, even though they constitute just 23percentt of the total population, according to Human Rights Watch).
Currently, Medicare recipients with dementia account for 34% of Medicare spending, even though they constitute only 13% of the total Medicare beneficiaries.
In 2001, 98% of people passing civil service examination were from Hindu hill groups, even though they constitute 29% of the population [ 30].
(This helps explain why national data shows that Hispanic-Americans accounted for 25percentt of restaurant visits in 2011 even though they only constituted about 17percentt of the population).
Still, the crowd clamors for widespread Fannie and Freddie write-downs, even though they would constitute a direct and sizable gift from taxpayers to the largest banks.
On the other hand, the numerous fragments (over one hundred) that have come down to us do not easily connect with each other, even though they probably constitute a sizable fraction of the whole.
