KB5252
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Dude, you are unhinged. I bet you like shadow boxing. Take a deep breath.I see what you're doing, Roland Martin. I ain't biting.
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However it's sliced we're not in a league of our own as far as diversity goes.That’s all going to depend on how it gets sliced up. There can be hundreds of distinct ethnic groups defined or analysis can be based on just a few categories (as the US Census does with white, black/AA, Asian, Native American, Hawaiian/Pacific, mixed). If you lump Catholics, Jewish, Hispanic, all the other Christians, atheists, etc into a single group then the US isn’t very diverse. Sub Saharan Africa can be represented as 100s of ethnic groups.
The point being we're around the middle of the measurement, not incredibly diverse and not incredibly homogeneous.with 215 being the most diverse, not the least.
and their methodology is pretty weak "In the Fearon list, ethnic fractionalization is approximated by a measure of similarity between languages, varying from 1 = the population speaks two or more unrelated languages to 0 = the entire population speaks the same language."
that list has Belgium, and Canada as more diverse than us. I think its a pretty crappy list.
That's the same time as me, roughly. Race may well not have mattered to your gang, which is good. It didn't matter to most of mine either but racism was all around us. Housing was segregated and roads across the tracks weren't paved, there were a lot of racist comments and behavior at school, and there was open discrimination in the community. When I got to UT I saw from other students that racism was alive and well in varying degrees all over the country.70s and 80s. No, when we were in school, race really wasn't a thing... not really. Nobody really gave a ****. You were taught it was a thing, it wasn't especially at scale. Kids generally didn't give a crap although there would be groups of this or that. Nobody made an issue about it because it just wasn't an issue.
If anything everyone basically was on equal footing, everyone got teased, everyone got picked on, everyone had the same opportunities on a public level, etc.
Everyone was basically told to try and ignore race, which is basically what happened.... but than they started the whole.... we need talk about race BS in the 90s and it has gotten worse since that time.
Origin and population share of immigrants are factors too as are the ethnicities of native born population. Elected officials and business leaders aren't measures of diversity but of inclusion. We're pretty diverse but a lot of other countries are too.50 million immigrants and every census defined ethnicity elected to the highest levels of government suggest otherwise. Even more diverse groups are represented leading the biggest companies.
Yep I saw that too.... but you have to consider that puddinhead may not even be able to tell timeFirst note: The White House lied straight up about the speech being delivered "live"; it was clearly not. How do we know this with absolute certainty? Biden had a watch on and it is visible in some of the shot -- and was not at the time of the speech. You'd think the production crew would have enough marbles rolling around to catch this but... nope. It thus was quite-clearly taped and therefore the obvious question is "how many
anybody heard this?
Origin and population share of immigrants are factors too as are the ethnicities of native born population. Elected officials and business leaders aren't measures of diversity but of inclusion. We're pretty diverse but a lot of other countries are too.
Yes to have different ethnicities in those positions there has to be diversity. But the same level of diversity could exist with one or very few ethnicities reaching high levels.You can’t have that type of inclusion without diversity. Participation of leadership at the highest levels by various groups of people certainly is an indicator of how diverse a country is. The politicians are elected by the people. The diversity of business leadership wouldn’t exist without educational opportunities for all of the different types of people.
I would expect nothing less.. poor Joe, I actually feel bad for himFirst note: The White House lied straight up about the speech being delivered "live"; it was clearly not. How do we know this with absolute certainty? Biden had a watch on and it is visible in some of the shot -- and was not at the time of the speech. You'd think the production crew would have enough marbles rolling around to catch this but... nope. It thus was quite-clearly taped and therefore the obvious question is "how many
anybody heard this?
He's been bending this country over for 50+ years.I would expect nothing less.. poor Joe, I actually feel bad for him
To be fair, that’s your experience but not necessarily the same experience others had. It wasn’t a huge issue where I grew up either and I was certainly in diverse locations prior to high school but, again, that doesn’t mean it was the same for all. I’ve certainly heard racist statements said by multiple people in East TN, not all white either. I’d say had I grown up in East TN my experience might’ve been different.70s and 80s. No, when we were in school, race really wasn't a thing... not really. Nobody really gave a ****. You were taught it was a thing, it wasn't especially at scale. Kids generally didn't give a crap although there would be groups of this or that. Nobody made an issue about it because it just wasn't an issue.
If anything everyone basically was on equal footing, everyone got teased, everyone got picked on, everyone had the same opportunities on a public level, etc.
Everyone was basically told to try and ignore race, which is basically what happened.... but than they started the whole.... we need talk about race BS in the 90s and it has gotten worse since that time.
Growing up in middle TN in the 80s it wasn’t either… the only time people ever said anything was when people started dating interracially because it was so rare .. now it is so commonplace that nobody even notices.. but that used to be a trigger, not gonna lieTo be fair, that’s your experience but not necessarily the same experience others had. It wasn’t a huge issue where I grew up either and I was certainly in diverse locations prior to high school but, again, that doesn’t mean it was the same for all. I’ve certainly heard racist statements said by multiple people in East TN, not all white either. I’d say had I grown up in East TN my experience might’ve been different.