Comparing Numbers; USA & Sri Lanka
By Mano Ratwatte –July 1, 2015
Mano Ratwatte
USA is Sri Lanka’s new Best Friend Forever(BFF); USA has done a lot of preaching on racial diversity and representation and democracy. Thus it might be a good place to look at Uncle Sam’s numbers. Is there any nation where there is tremendous diversity of population such as in the US where there is single State Assembly or Federal institution that has equal numbers representing different ethnic groups?
The 114th Congress of the United States has the following makeup.
White: 79.8%
Black or African American 10.1%
Hispanic 7.8%
Asian 2.3%
The Senate which elects two Senators from each State (all having equal power). Percentages are the same as numbers because there are only 100 Senators.
White 94
Black/African American 2
Hispanic 3
Asian 1
Obama didn’t win a majority of white votes in most states but he won a significant minority percentage of the majority race; he won 98% and 95% of the Black votes in the States that mattered and a similarly high percentage of Hispanic voters. Similar to Mr. Sirisena.
Census statistic on Gender says the percentage of women in the US population is 50.8% yet the house is made up of only 19.4% Female Congressmen. Senate has 20 Female Senators; lopsidedly unequal and sexist. Similar to Sri Lanka. USA only uses FPP; is that terribly sexist, racist and unequal considering ethnic and gender percentages of the population?
