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This 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
by marmada 7y ago
This 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.