Reach Multicultural: Latest Posts
2018 Diversity Calendar of Events
When you are alone for days or weeks at a time, you eventually become drawn to people. Talking to randos is the norm. I’ll never forget the conversation with the aquarium fisherman, forest ranger, and women at the Thai market. It’s refreshing to compare notes on life with people from vastly different backgrounds.
11% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Despite some groups having persistently lower rates of internet adoption, the vast majority of Americans are online. Over time, the offline population has been shrinking, and for some groups that change has been especially dramatic. For example, 86% of adults ages 65 and older did not go online in 2000; today that figure has been reduced to 34%. Among those without a high school diploma, the share not using the internet dropped from 81% to 35% in the same time period.
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Top 5 Travel Destinations for Latin Americans Within the US.
US is a country made of diversity; one can find people from around the world in just one nation, no matter if they are from Europe, Africa, Asia, or Latin America.
Diversity in government- Representative?
Diversity in the 2018 Elections – is the demographic of candidates changing to match that of the electorate?
In a representative government, legislators are elected to represent groups in their districts or states. Regardless of party affiliation, governments in the U.S. and throughout the world have been overwhelmingly male dominated. So while the obvious answer is NO, it is interesting to see how governments are changing.
Demographics of a community may change rapidly, but government representation changes much more slowly. The 2018 midterm elections in the United States have seen a significant increase in the number of candidates (and winners) representing multicultural communities.
Multicultural Voter Resources
Getting multicultural voters from potential to influential.
When discussions about the impact of multicultural voters is raised, a key focus is the potential impact of Hispanic voters as well as African American voters on national elections. However, the multicultural voter potential for city and state elections is enormous and strategies should reach key multicultural voter segments in the community.  Asian American voters in states such as California can have a tremendous impact whereas Arab American voters can have a major impact in cities such as Los Angeles and Detroit as well as state elections in Michigan.
Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples Day is a holiday that celebrates the Indigenous peoples of America and commemorates their shared history and culture.