uspez stole my girlfriend I ' m a poor loser <| sep |> The USA does not have by a long shot more minorities than western Europe or Canada . It does have generally more , but the difference isn ' t massive . Different measurement make comparisons difficult in Europe , the category ' White nonHispanics ' does not exist . If you ' d apply European ' ethnic accounting ' to the US then whites would be 72 . 4 % of total U . S . population . So 27 . 6 % would be minorities . 23 . 8 % of Switzerland ' s population are foreign residents . Among the G 8 countries , Canada had the highest proportion of foreignborn population 20 . 6 %, well above the shares in Germany 13 . 0 % in 2010 and the United States 12 . 9 % in 2010 . enm 2011 assa 99010 x 99010 x 2011001 eng . cfmThen you have the complete refusal to do stats based on ethnicityrace in France Racial and ethnic censuses have been banned by the French government since 1978 , since the term race in France invokes associations with Nazi Germany .