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For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color
- marmada 7y agoThis article seems to exclude South Asians and Asians as people of color (focusing only on Blacks and Hispanics). That angers me, we do have colored skin. I don't know why we got less fucked in today's society, but arbitrarily shifting the definition of colored to exclude people who are literally colored is frustrating.
- tlb 7y agoI think that's incorrect. The main chart is "White (nonhispanic)" vs "Hispanic, black, and other groups".
- deogeo 7y agoIt's because the report it's based on [1] was split into only 4 categories: white, black, hispanic, and 'other'. Why they took such a coarse approach, I don't know. I guess the article could have interviewed some Asians, but chose not to (I assume - I skimmed/skipped the interviews). Ignoring Asians when talking about people of color is the usual media M.O. [1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/recent-trends-in-wealth-holding-by-race-and-ethnicity-evidence-from-the-survey-of-consumer-finances-20170927.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/rece...
- mandevil 7y agoOne good answer to why Chinese and Japanese-Americans specifically, but generalizing to all Asians "got less fucked in today's society" is the excellent book _Color of Success: Asian-Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority_, tracing the way that white Americans viewed Asians from the Yellow Peril era to the current model minority one. Strong recommend, even if it is about as dry as a Perl book.
- qazqwert 7y agoa stop with the sjw shit around here... b that's great... see trumps economy...