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What was the ethnic composition of your congregation?
by badboy 35 Replies latest jw friends
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lonelysheep
Cong 1-95% White 5% Black
Cong 2-99% Black (American, West Indian, and African) 1% White
Cong 3- 90% Black 10% White
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Sassy
I grew up in northern Minnesota... the little congregation I was raised in.. small.. 50 publishers maybe.. I forget..
all white.. mostly scandanvians in that area.. although there were germans, english, irish, etc..
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badboy
ANY MORE FOR ANY MORE?
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Dragonlady76
I went to a Spanish speaking congo, but we had some that were non hispanic.
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Mum
Congregation 1: 100% Caucasian; only foreign born were German; wealthy suburban congregation
Congregation 2: About 70-80% Caucasian; about 20-30% African-American; one German-born; one Mexican-American (moved in later); small town with only one congregation, newly integrated (racially speaking)
I was under the impression that "Hispanic" referred to anyone with roots/ancestry in Spain because Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian peninsula. There is a wide disparity of definitions on the web, according to this:
Definitions of Hispanic on the Web:
- Persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
www.unr.edu/vpaf/hr/affaction/terms.html - A US citizen of true born Hispanic heritage, from any of the Spanish-speaking areas of Latin America or the following regions: Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Basin only.
https://supplier2.intel.com/stt/Definitions.aspx - Things or people that come from Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America.
www.brooklynexpedition.org/structures/glossary_latin.html - another term refering to people of Mexican descent; this term is more frequently used to identify themselves by people living in parts of Arizona and Texas.
www.indianahistory.org/programming/immigration/GLOSSARY/ - person of Latin American or Spanish descent.
www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/secondlanguages/scos/2004/59glossary - related to a Spanish-speaking people or culture; "the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly"
- Spanish American: an American whose first language is Spanish
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize native and naturalized U.S. citizens, permanent residents and temporary immigrants, whose background hail either from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United States. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic - The United States Census Bureau uses the federal government's definitions of race when performing a census. These definitions have and may change between each census.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)
- Persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.