This might be a touchy subject for some.
May even offend, feel free to counter the argument . . .
Much is being made in USA and parts of Europe of white people and ethnic minorities . . . impacting job hunts, preferential treatments etc.
Which goes begging the question - what is a "WHITE" person actually exactly ??? Given that the USA is counting Hispanics (or whatever the current labeling says) as different from "white" - would that mean any person residing / being native to or from Spain / Portugal - even Italy is now counted as non-white???? Turns out that even Jesus was - nicely tanned - yes?!
Interestingly - this website -----> https://www.infoplease.com/world/social-statistics/ethnicity-and-race-countries
talks about the difference between Race and Ethnicity!!! If you scroll though you will see that there are native "Austrian" or "Germans" etc - BUT only the USA and the UK and oddly enough Uruguay/ South Africa/Cuba/Brazil count "white" in their population data sets. Yet most of Europe is generally being described as White! A few South American countries count Amerindian+white as Mestizo . . .
Russia of course has a very mixed population with most of the Siberian / Asian population (in their territories) being from well -- ex-Asian descent!
If we are talking about REGIONS - then
| Rank | Region | Share of Global Population (%) | Population | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Asia | 60% | 4.5 billion | |||||||||||||
| #2 | Africa | 16% | 1.2 billion | |||||||||||||
| #3 | Europe | 10% | 729 million | |||||||||||||
| #4 | North America | 7% | 534 million | |||||||||||||
| #5 | South America | 6% | 424 million | |||||||||||||
| #6 | Central America | 1% | 47 million | |||||||||||||
| #7 | Oceania | 1% | 42 million |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_world
Australia + New Zealand are listed as ZERO . 39 percent and given that we only have about 5 million people vs Australia with some 26 million . . . NZ would be even less on its own!! Spare a thought for the Cook Islands with some 11000 folks . . .
Anyhow - if you brake it down and broadly accept Asia as mostly non white and same for Africa and most of the (south and middle) Americas - then that leaves just USA/Canada and parts of Europe and that is some 14% - less if you discount the resident 'colored' Hispanics or other colored immigrant communities etc . . . There is certainly a melting pot argument to be made for both UK and USA
75% of the world population live either in Asia or Africa!!! Just stop and think about that one for a minute!!
North America AND Europe combined (forget for a moment their racial makeup) EQUAL the population of Africa - give or take a few thousand folks!
Given my fair haired freckled sometime sun burned tanned skin - I am definitely in the minority!! Hmmm wonder if I can get that job on the DEI program after all????
Where is the local tanning bed ? ? ? - I need to "blend" in . . . . .
PS - Non of this is even remotely a NEW thing - watch www.The Secret of my Success where the hero of the story gets denied a job because the one thing he could not be was: being a ethnic minority and the firm had a hiring quota for those!! The film reflecting the current reality - was made in . . . . . . . . .
Drum roll please
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1987
Have fun!
