The question posed in the original thread is much different than the one you pose now. No matter what ethnic background you come from you have to ignore the sta

The question posed in the original thread is much different than the one you pose now. No matter what ethnic background you come from you have to ignore the stats and act as if. Now that you clarified the intention of your initial question, it seems you want to know if the percentage of founders of startups correlates with each ethnicities percentage of population. While I don't know the ethnic breakdown of tech startups founders, I know that disparities do exist and they vary by culture, social economic strata and in this case by geographic location. Until recently, the stats for U.S. broadband adoption showed that income and ethnicity were strong indicators. After I finished up my economics degree at UCLA I took a few sociology courses. I recall that in the first half of the 20th century Asian immigrants had a higher percentage of entrepreneurship relatively because of the lack of employment opportunities and discrimination. In the second half of the 20th century that percentage declined. While it's interesting to study the plight of some ethnic groups, it's much more interesting to study how public policy can improve the situation. The wonderful thing for everyone is that the access to information is a great equalizer, and that our parents socio-economic level is less of a predictor of our future than it was when our parents were kids.