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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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I actually found that article in the Guardian to be rather humourous. Hmmm... the top two groups were 76% of the respondents self-identified as white and 7% of the respondents self-identified as Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. Not to mention the "encouraging numbers in the intern section" where 49% of interns self-identified as "black, indigenous or people of colour".
Looking at the U. S. Census Bureau for 2019, it lists 76.5% of Americans as white (I'm not going to dig into the weirdness of white vs. white Hispanic, black vs. black Hispanic, etc.), and 5.9% and 0.2% for Asian and native Hawaiian/Pacific islander for a total of 6.1%. This constitutes racial imbalance? Admittedly, the differences in how the various groupings are defined makes it a bit hard to compare.
I got my fingers burned a couple of years back when I made the mistake of suggesting that since the majority of university students in Canada are women with over 60% of the student population, it was time to start encouraging male high school students to consider attending university. Honestly, I did
not suggest that baby girls should be abandoned on the nearest hillside preferably in the middle of winter, simply that some of the programs to encourage non-male high school students to continue on to university were no longer needed and that some of that effort should be moved to encouraging male high school students to attend university.