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> Why are Asians doing so well? Why can't we replicate this for other groups? What _are_ the groups? "Asian" can mean anything. From India, China, Japan, many
by outworlder 4y ago
> Why are Asians doing so well? Why can't we replicate this for other groups?
What _are_ the groups?
"Asian" can mean anything. From India, China, Japan, many countries in Oceania, etc.
I think the classification is fundamentally flawed.
- TremendousJudge 4y agoAs an outsider, it's obvious looking in that racial classification in the US is just crazy -- they took some racial stereotypes from 100 years ago, gave them neutral sounding names, and started pretending it's not racist to group everybody south of Texas as "hispanic". And then build official policy on top of these simplistic classes that fail to describe reality in any meaningful way, only serving to reveal to everybody else in the world what the people in the US think about them. At least the people calling anybody with slanted eyes "Chinese" and anybody that's slightly brown "Mexican" are being sincere in their ignorance.
- outworlder 4y agoI myself have to mark a checkbox saying "Hispanic OR Latino". I'm Latino, but NOT Hispanic. But I can also check "white". One is a skin color, another is ancestry, and yet another is geographical location...
- killjoywashere 4y agoMy (least?) favorite anecdote on this was when we were running stats demographics and found there was one more African American than Black. Turns out it’s a rich white kid who was born in South Africa. He’s not wrong…
- glandium 4y agoElon Musk and Charlize Theron are African Americans too.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe fun part is that 60% of world population have to share a single classification whereas a couple of small islands in the pacific somehow get a label for themselves
- Qtips87 4y agoAgree. Asian is kind of like Hispanic, it doesn't mean anything in terms of ethnicities.
- screye 4y agoHispanic is even more confusing given that the population composition of some "hispanic" countries is 90%+ white.
- int_19h 4y agoIn US government paperwork, Hispanic / non-Hispanic is usually a binary category that is orthogonal to "race", and sometimes referred to "ethnicity". Thus, you can be "Hispanic White", "Hispanic Black", "Hispanic Native American" etc, but there is no such thing as "Black Native American" under that classification.
- odiroot 4y agoDon't forget Middle East.