[tarsinge]

Racial statistics also only make sense in the US where skin color is associated with usually only one culture/origin, and while it's understandable in this specific context be aware than in other countries this is plain racism (and also illegal in some like France) because of the complexity and multi culturally and background that exist between a similar skin color.

Now sure there are socio-economics realities correlated but in that case instead of using skin color as a proxy (which again only works in the US) the correct thing to do is to use directly the variables of that socio-economics background, like education, income level, parent's wealth, ...

[cambalache]

Why are you downvoted? Americans are right when they say people from outside do not understand certain things about Americans (like the second amendment or why car culture is so prevalent) but many don't apply that standard to themselves. In many countries race is not a big deal.

[beardedman]

You have many countries with racial stats. I also referred to the gender "issue" - not only race.

[tarsinge]

I don't think gender has the same statistics relevance issue, because the distribution is more uniform across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Edit: to clarify, I am not debating wether or not the gender and racial "issue" should be highlighted in the survey, just that the racial stats as they are are not statistically relevant to draw conclusions (at least in non US countries).