{"id":371425,"date":"2018-07-30T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-do-you-diversify-a-whole-state\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:16:32","slug":"how-do-you-diversify-a-whole-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-do-you-diversify-a-whole-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Diversify A Whole State?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Menahan<\/strong>
Information Liberation<\/a>
July 30, 2018<\/p>\n

White people are a majority in New Hampshire: here\u2019s why that\u2019s a problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 Catalina Celentano used to hold training sessions for hospital workers in Lynn, Mass., to familiarize them with the cultures of patients from Cambodia, Russia and the Dominican Republic. When she moved to New Hampshire, she suddenly found herself in an ethnic vacuum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went from being able to speak Spanish every day to not speaking Spanish at all because there wasn\u2019t anybody to speak Spanish to,\u201d said Mrs. Celentano, who was born in Colombia to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father. \u201cThe only person I spoke Spanish with was a cleaning lady and she moved back to Colombia.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Hampshire, like its neighbors Vermont and Maine, is nearly all white. This has posed an array of problems<\/b> for new arrivals, who often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community.<\/p>\n

It has also posed problems for employers in these states, who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The issue prompted about 100 business leaders, government officials and members of nonprofit organizations to meet Thursday to search for ways that New Hampshire \u2014 which is 94 percent white \u2014 might lure other racial and ethnic groups, as well as younger people.<\/p>\n

Will Arvelo, New Hampshire\u2019s director of economic development, said the gathering appeared to be the first broad-based effort in New England, if not the country, to focus on how to diversify an entire state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Contrast the above article with another from the NY Times from 2016 celebrating Santa Ana in Orange County as the \u201cvanguard\u201d of a \u201cNew California\u201d for becoming 78% Latino<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From the NYT:<\/p>\n

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These days, Santa Ana stands as the face of a new…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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