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Flynnphoto's avatar

I remember seeing memes of FBI individual crime stats with photos all labelled as White.

The polite version is uncannily valley.

The other is mystery meat at best.

No one in France has a racial identity, in fact it’s not even recorded (publicly) unless you go to hospital with a specific genetic disorder. Which has been published by the French government.

Point being, they hide statistics here, but if you dig over there you’ll find them.

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Nicholas White's avatar

Yes it is very unfortunate that Europe doesn't allow collecting proper data. The best that some European countries have is "both parents born in X country" which is not very helpful after immigration has gone on for 20 years because the 2nd generation immigrants start having kids that are counted as European...

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eatinsomtin's avatar

Very good methodology.

But, it doesn't seem you accounted for central Asians or Azeris being categorised as NHW.

And if you wanted to strictly keep it to European White, then subtracted Turkish & Georgian numbers.

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Nicholas White's avatar

I did subtract Turkish but yeah there are so many suspect ancestry responses within the "Non-Hispanic White alone" that I didn't remove. About a million Native American, then Black, Japanese, Chinese, so many weird things.

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Carl McNulty's avatar

I mean Georgians are practically White and they make up such a small percentage of Americans it wouldn't matter.

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