1) First, relax -- at least for now. Unless you're reading this from China, you probably don't have much invested in these markets. Foreigners own just 1.5% of Chinese shares, according to Capital Economics. That number is growing, but only very gradually. 2) For Chinese investors, however, it's been a very wild ride.
For the purposes of NMSDC's program, a minority group member is an individual who is a U.S. citizen with at least 25 percent Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic or Native American heritage. Documentation to support the claim is required.
Blacks ranked as the second-largest minority group, at 40.7 million. Overall, the nation's 102.5 million minorities accounted for 34% of the U.S. population, a new milepost on America's inexorable journey toward greater diversity and a harbinger of the growing political clout of nonwhites.