Unit 4 - The Tipping Point

I am of those type of people who love to be prepared and knowledgeable when going to talk or write about an specific topic. This one was not the exception and being honest I got surprised with the information I found about the origins of this noun. 

Tipping point today refers to the time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped. However, it had a quite problematic meaning when it first became popular as a figurative phrase in the late 1950s. It was almost completely in reference to the tendency of white families to move out of an area when a certain percentage of the neighborhood was composed of black families. As the time went by, tipping point began to widen its application and was largely used in the sense in which we often see it today, without reference to racial panic. 

I would have never imagined this term had such an unhappy beginning!


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