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TL;DR: non-White lifeforms are a waste of carbon and oxygen, they don't *really* do anything with their lives etc-etc...
Coin collecting:
In 2015, the overall US Mint customer breakdown was 90% White and 87% male.
Skiing:
In 2021/2022, 88.7% of skiers and snowboarders in the US were White, and 63% were male.
Citizen science:
According to a study of volunteers prior to 2020, 95% of citizen scientists identified as White.
theconversation.com
Golfing:
In 2022, out of 13.2M of on-course golfers in the US, 78% were White, and 72% were male.
www.ngf.org
Fishing, hunting, wildlife watching:
In 2022, 75% of US anglers were White, 67% were male.
77% of hunters were White and 77% were male.
71% of away-from-home wildlife watchers were White, 53% were male.
Wikipedia editing:
In 2022, the editing community was 80% male, 13% women, and 4% gender diverse.
75.6% of US editors are NHW and only 1.1% of identify as Black or African-American.
Reading:
In 2021, Hispanic adults (38%) were more likely than Black (25%) or White adults (20%) to report not having read a book in the past 12 months.
www.pewresearch.org
Rock climbing:
Only 1.5% of USA Climbing members and affiliates identified as African American. The numbers for mixed race climbers were not much better, making up only 4.7%.
www.climbing.com
Biking:
USA Cycling membership is 86% White, 83% male and 50% middle-aged.
Furrydom:
Cosplays:
In a 2013 survey that was 93.4% US-based, Caucasians represented 68% of the sample, Asians represented 12%, the Latinx represented 5% and Native American represented 0.5% of respondents. 11% identified as 'Mixed' and 4% of the respondents identified as 'Other'.
Anti-Trump protests:
www.brookings.edu
Swimming:
In a 2022 study, only 46% of Black and 47% of Latinx children had swimming lessons, compared to 72% of White children.
Less than 4% of White parents reported never learning to swim, compared to 26% of Black and over 32% of Latinx parents.
news.northwestern.edu
Traveling abroad:
Black Americans are much less likely to have ever traveled abroad (49%) than White (75%) or Hispanic Americans (73%). White adults are also more likely to have been to five or more countries (30%) than Black (13%) or Hispanic (15%) adults.
Women (32%) are more likely than men (22%) to have never traveled outside the country. Men, for their part, are much more likely than women to have been to five or more countries (30% vs. 22%). Still, men and women are equally likely to have been to only one country.
www.pewresearch.org
Volunteerism:
In 2020, respondents were White (84%) women (87%). This trend has continued for five years. This represents less diversity than in the nonprofit sector as a whole. As a point of comparison, some report that 75% of sector employees are women, and while people of color are roughly 40% of the U.S. population, only 18% of nonprofit employees are POC, a slightly higher percentage of those who work in volunteerism.
Online communities:
More from social anthropology series on .org:
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Coin collecting:
In 2015, the overall US Mint customer breakdown was 90% White and 87% male.
Mint shrinking, aging, customer base has room to grow
The U.S. Mint’s overall customer base is overwhelmingly aging males.
www.coinworld.com
Skiing:
In 2021/2022, 88.7% of skiers and snowboarders in the US were White, and 63% were male.
Citizen science:
According to a study of volunteers prior to 2020, 95% of citizen scientists identified as White.
Citizen science volunteers are almost entirely white
The homogeneity of citizen science volunteers undercuts the ability of these projects to bring science to underserved communities.
theconversation.com
Golfing:
In 2022, out of 13.2M of on-course golfers in the US, 78% were White, and 72% were male.
Participation Rises Again... - National Golf Foundation
Traditional, on-course golf participation in the U.S. was up again in 2022, and off-course gains were even more significant.
www.ngf.org
Fishing, hunting, wildlife watching:
In 2022, 75% of US anglers were White, 67% were male.
77% of hunters were White and 77% were male.
71% of away-from-home wildlife watchers were White, 53% were male.
Wikipedia editing:
In 2022, the editing community was 80% male, 13% women, and 4% gender diverse.
75.6% of US editors are NHW and only 1.1% of identify as Black or African-American.
Diversifying Wikipedia’s U.S. editors
The vision of the Wikimedia universe is to collect “the sum of all human knowledge”. But that’s hard to do when, as the latest Wikimedia Community Insights Report shows, your core…
wikiedu.org
Reading:
In 2021, Hispanic adults (38%) were more likely than Black (25%) or White adults (20%) to report not having read a book in the past 12 months.
Who doesn’t read books in America?
Roughly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year.
www.pewresearch.org
Rock climbing:
Only 1.5% of USA Climbing members and affiliates identified as African American. The numbers for mixed race climbers were not much better, making up only 4.7%.
"That isn't for Black People": A Conversation on Climbing's Diversity Problem
Picture a climber in your head. What does that person look like? The institutions that caused this gap are deeply entrenched.
www.climbing.com
Biking:
USA Cycling membership is 86% White, 83% male and 50% middle-aged.
Furrydom:
Cosplays:
In a 2013 survey that was 93.4% US-based, Caucasians represented 68% of the sample, Asians represented 12%, the Latinx represented 5% and Native American represented 0.5% of respondents. 11% identified as 'Mixed' and 4% of the respondents identified as 'Other'.
Anti-Trump protests:
The diversity of the recent Black Lives Matter protests is a good sign for racial equity
Dana Fisher writes that the recent BLM protests have been the most racially and geographically diverse in U.S. history and bode well for achieving racial equity in the country.
www.brookings.edu
Swimming:
In a 2022 study, only 46% of Black and 47% of Latinx children had swimming lessons, compared to 72% of White children.
Less than 4% of White parents reported never learning to swim, compared to 26% of Black and over 32% of Latinx parents.
Racial, ethnic disparities in swimming skills found across generations
A parent survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago found intergenerational trends in swimming skills, with stark racial and ethnic differences.
news.northwestern.edu
Traveling abroad:
Black Americans are much less likely to have ever traveled abroad (49%) than White (75%) or Hispanic Americans (73%). White adults are also more likely to have been to five or more countries (30%) than Black (13%) or Hispanic (15%) adults.
Women (32%) are more likely than men (22%) to have never traveled outside the country. Men, for their part, are much more likely than women to have been to five or more countries (30% vs. 22%). Still, men and women are equally likely to have been to only one country.
Most Americans have traveled abroad, although differences among demographic groups are large
In March 2021 – the most recent month for which data is available – around 3 million American citizens traveled outside of the country.
www.pewresearch.org
Volunteerism:
In 2020, respondents were White (84%) women (87%). This trend has continued for five years. This represents less diversity than in the nonprofit sector as a whole. As a point of comparison, some report that 75% of sector employees are women, and while people of color are roughly 40% of the U.S. population, only 18% of nonprofit employees are POC, a slightly higher percentage of those who work in volunteerism.
Online communities:
Coffee Salon Demographics
History - discoveries, revolutions, innovations - has always been made by the select few: The extraordinarily intelligent, and the extraordinarily driven and curious. It is easy to proxy the former (IQ tests), but quantifying the latter is more difficult. My suggestion: Look at the demographic...
www.unz.com
More from social anthropology series on .org:
Race and Flying: "it is only the Nordic type who finds pleasure in danger and pleasure in struggle"
Flying, which demands more clarity of thought and presence of mind than other types of sport and occupations, and more often than not involves ticklish situations–there is not a pilot who has not experienced an emergency landing–is proving itself to be a form of sport and kind of occupation...
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[WATER] Odds of Making it to the NBA, by Various Demographics
Category Odds A man born in India 0 :lul::lul::lul: A 5'10" American who isn't a son of an NBA player 1 in 900,000 A son of an NBA player 1 in 43 A 7-footer 1 in 7 An identical twin of an NBA player 1 in 2 - Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's Biggest...
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Non-Whites in their natural state: Pirahã case study
The Pirahã are an indigenous tribe that lives on the banks of the Maici River in Brazil, numbering 800 individuals. Their language doesn't have expressions like "John's brother's house." You can say "John's house," you can say "John's brother," but if you want to say "John's brother's house,"...
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