Hispanic

In the United States, for example, non-Hispanic Whites constitute the majority (63.4%) and all other racial and ethnic groups (Mexican, African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indian, and Native Hawaiians) are classified as “minorities”.

But in the 1990s, the term “minority” usually refers to four major racial and ethnic groups: African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. This transformation of America’s racial and ethnic profile is most visible in certain states and communities.

Minority, a culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group. As the term is used in the social sciences, this subordinacy is the chief defining characteristic of a minority group.

The Largest Ancestry Groups In The United States

• 49,206,934 Germans.
• 41,284,752 Black or African Americans.
• 35,523,082 Irish.
• 31,789,483 Mexican.
• 26,923,091 English.
• 17,558,598 Italian.
• 9,739,653 Polish.
• 9,136,092 French (except Basque)

Asian Hispanics, meanwhile, are the smallest segment of the nation’s Asian population. A 34% plurality of this group are Filipino. Chinese Americans are the largest Asian origin group in the U.S., making up 23% of the Asian population, or 5.4 million people.

The smallest major race group was Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone (0.5 million), which represented 0.2 percent of the total population. The remainder of respondents who reported only one race, 19.1 million people (6 percent of all respondents), were classified as “some other race” alone.

There are seven key minority and indigenous groupings: Latinos (including Puerto Ricans), African Americans, Asian Americans, Arab and other Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawai’ians and other Pacific Islanders, and Alaska Natives.