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Do you only think it is a problem for admission metrics? What about other clearly obvious racial biases. Is it a problem that the NBA lacks Asian players?

• JauntyHatAngle 8y ago
  >Do you only think it is a problem for admission metrics? No, just one way that arguably is a place to do it. I don't believe there is a silver bullet. >What about other clearly obvious racial biases. Is it a problem that the NBA lacks Asian players? There are some parallels to think about here, but on the whole no, and I think the main reason there is because we view Physical pursuits differently than mental ones. We know that different races have generally different physical attributes, as well as a culture surrounding a specific sport, however I think as a society we view work as a mostly purely mental pursuit (that is arguable too of course), and we do not view it to have a restriction based on race as no particular race is smarter than another. NBA has a base requirement of a certain physical element, which is hard to overcome with the mental side, and if your particular race is known to be taller as a whole than you'll get more people being good at it. I don't think it is as simple as that (culture and race intertwine a fair bit here...) but the low and the short of it I think is that. Culture plays a part in grass roots numbers of people picking up the sport and going with it of course. And there is argument there about whether it should be promoted more to other cultures/races specifically. I don't have an answer though, I don't know much about NBA.