Sentence examples for western descent from inspiring English sources

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.

For example, the tumors from more than 95% of NPC patients in high-incidence areas of China are undifferentiated nonkeratinizing carcinoma, whereas those from patients of Western descent, such as Caucasian, African-American, and Hispanic patients, are predominantly keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma [ 3– 5].

In 2003, people of non-Western descent accounted for a third of the population in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague.

More than 30% are of non-western descent, many of them first, second and third generation immigrants from Muslim countries.

People of "non-western" descent are labeled "allochtoon", not only by the white society, but also by law.

Forty percent of the study population was of non-Western descent (n = 2,903).

The studied patients have a lower socio-economic level, are of more non-western descent and are slightly younger than the Dutch population.

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

Based on a classification of Statistics Netherlands and The Netherlands Institute for Social Research 92% of all patients in these practices belonged to the lowest of five socioeconomic status levels while 53% were of non-western descent, in 2007.

However, in many Dutch schools citizenship education is taking a one-sided turn, accentuating individual rights and (moral) obligations and focusing on students of non-western descent to assimilate.

We also observed other groups who participated less in the NIP compared to the reference categories, including those of non-Western descent, with a low income and with a low educational level.