Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Probably a lot of proportional representation and a fairly heavy hand to bias representation. I'm tell you, it's fucking hard to get well sourced, recent data, but here are some charts to ponder:
My favorite format, but the data source was unclear.
Presentation demonstrating change over time, backed by US demographics data - about as good as we can get.
The most recent, but ... Buzzfeed? How much salt you want with that?
A consistent point is that whites are still the majority population, so you'd expect to see them more often.
But beyond that hides white, male privilege. There should be at least as many women CEOs billionaires, since women make up slightly more than 50% of the population, and yet they still comprise only 10% of the Fortune 500 CEO list. Dig into that at all and you find a massive bias.
The % on TV seems about right, or even over corrected for diversity. It's the IRL corporate America that's off-kilter, so maybe if that's what you're seeing on TV it's also accurate.
What’s the difference between white and hispanic ? Spanish people look pretty white to me
In US demographic surveys, they make a distinction between "White, non-hispanic" and "White."
There's little difference except whether cops can shoot you and get away with it, or not.
Hispanic is an ethnicity while white is a race. you can be of any race and Hispanic and of any ethnicity and white but that doesn't mean they're the same thing.
Hispanic means Spanish-speaking people from Latin America which is different from Spanish which is a person from Spain. despite what the conquistadors would like people to think, not everyone in Latin America has Spaniard lineage. there are indigenous people that never got fully assimilated and don't speak Spanish
Oh ok ty !