But the very same pragmatic view also suggests that by 2050, whites (i.e. people of European or "Western" descent) will be less than half the population of America.
It is much more common in people of Western European descent than in those of Asian or African ancestry.
More than 30% are of non-western descent, many of them first, second and third generation immigrants from Muslim countries.
The majority (59%) of our study sample was living in Amsterdam, where almost 50% of the population is of non-western descent, this is in contrast to other regions of the Netherlands where generally 30% of the population is from Non-Western descent (http://www.zorgatlas.nl).nl
"About three-quarters of the world's foods are really Native," said Mrs. Carson, who is of western Abenaki descent.
The Poquonnock Pequot Tribe, which has 112 members and claims to be of Western Pequot descent, filed its letter of intent to petition in 1999 after the Tribal Council debated for years the merits of seeking such status, said Paul A. Davis, a tribal spokesman.
For example, my dad, whose ethnic background is German and English, would be a perfect candidate for a bone marrow transplant because people of Western European descent comprise 90percentt of the registry.
The rate of occurrence is highest in peoples of Western European descent, averaging around 7 per 100,000 people, and is lower in the rest of the world; e.g., one per million people of Asian and African descent.
Ninety-six percent of the persons was of Western European descent.
Therefore, the findings of this study may only apply to populations of Western European descent.
