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Massive demographic and economic change
The economic and industrial re-emergence of Asian and other non-Western nations after a 250 year hiatus (i.e. break) is a story we have all been reading about in the media during much of the past three decades.

In fact, for thousands of years since the beginning of settled city life and civilization, the world's largest economies, the most civilised and wealthiest states, and the most cultured and advanced societies on the planet were located not in Europe, but in Asia, North Africa, the Middle-East, Meso-America (Mexico and Central America), and the Andean regions of South America. In fact, Europe was considered to be the "third" world throughout much of civilised history (3500 BC to 2012 AD).

The once powerful G8, made up of exclusively Western nations, is no longer the dominant economic and political institution on the global stage. The world's economies are now much influenced by nations, such as China, India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Turkey. These non-Western nations now outnumber the Western ones in the G-20, which is the world's most influential economic organisation.

Along with the economic re-emergence of the above non-Western nations on the global political, economic, and industrial scene, a concurrent demographic transformation of Western nations such as the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and even Europe, by non-European peoples has been taking place during the past fifty years.

Throughout time immemorial, it was the Indigenous, Aboriginal, and the Native Americans, who represented the entirety of the population in present-day Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, until full-fledged European settlement and colonisation of these lands (that started from 1600 AD onwards), transformed these former Indigenous majority lands into European majority nations during the past four centuries.

The Census Bureau in the United States recently released data from the 2010 national census. The census showed that the general population in the US was becoming increasingly older and more racially diverse. The census numbers showed that over 50% of America's children younger than eighteen years of age belonged to a racial minority group in 2010, with Hispanic youths leading the way followed by Black, Asian, Native American, and multi-racial youth. Whites made up only 47% of the nation's youth in 2010.

In addition, 37.5% of America's population in 2010 belonged to a racial minority group, that collectively included the Hispanics from Latin America, Blacks, Asians, Native Americans, and individuals from multiple racial backgrounds. Individuals from these racial and ethnic backgrounds were also younger and more fertile compared to white Americans.

Population projections showed that by 2042, Hispanics (25%), African-Americans (16%), Asians and Pacific Islanders (9%), Native Americans (2%), and multi-racials (3%) would collectively outnumber white Americans in the United States. Hence in 2042, white Americans would become the minority of the population in the US for the first time since the early 1800s. White Americans would also be much older and less fertile (with an average median age of over 48 years) compared to visible minority groups, who would have a much lower median age and higher fertility rates.

The former British colony of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean is currently as racially diverse a nation as the United States. In New Zealand, the native Maoris, other Pacific Islanders, and Asians now collectively represent over 34% of the national population. These visible minority groups are increasing rapidly in numbers due to mass immigration and the higher fertility rate and lower median age compared to white New Zealanders. Population projection studies show that these minority groups will replace white New Zealanders as the majority population in New Zealand by 2035.

In Canada, Asians and Aboriginal populations along other visible minority groups, are increasing rapidly due to massive immigration and a higher fertility rate when compared to white Canadians. Already 25% of the population in Canada and 27% of all children in the country under eighteen years of age, belong to a visible minority or Aboriginal group. By 2031, as many as 31% of Canada's population will be made up of visible minorities, while Aboriginals will form another 6% of the population. By 2050, whites will become a minority in Canada, collectively outnumbered by individuals from both visible minority and Aboriginal backgrounds.

Most interestingly, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian populations are increasing so rapidly in Europe, that by 2100 half of all children in Europe will belong to these minority groups, while native Europeans will form only 65% of the population in the continent.

For example, the Amsterdam in Holland is already a city, where the majority of the population are made up of minority ethnic and non-European populations, a fate that has befallen every major city in both the US and New Zealand many years ago. Canada's largest metropolitan regions of Toronto and Vancouver have already become majority visible-minority cities, while Auckland in New Zealand recently also became a majority non-white city. This trend, towards rapid racial diversity through both mass immigration and higher fertility (on the part of minorities) is accelerating further, as the rapidly aging white population begins to retire en masse during the next twenty years.

Meanwhile, the native populations and the economies in Asia, Africa, South America, Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands have been growing rapidly since the mid-1960s. To illustrate the radical transformation, in 1914 (prior to the onset of the First World War), 35% of the entire planet's population were made up of individuals of European ancestry. In 2010, only 13% of the world's population were made up Europeans and their descendants. By 2050 only 4% of the world's population would be made up of individuals of European ancestry owing to the variety of factors, which were discussed earlier in this article. Similarly, while 80% of the global economy in 1914 were produced in Western nations, currently only 35% of the global economy comes from the West. By 2050, Western nations will only produce 20% of the global economic output!