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by sreekotay 2180 days ago
This is a great but how does everyone put half the worlds population under "Asian"??! Lol.
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Asian is not a race. What makes you think there's shared genetic lineage between someone born in the north of China and someone born in Nepal? Or in the middle of Indonesia or in Afganistan or in Hokkaido.. etc etc. If we are doing to go by diversity than why not go full hog and analyze genetic variance of your employees and add a loss function that maximizes variance.
Neither is black a race. Black people are the most ethincally diverse "race" At some point we are grouping people based on the way we look or the continent we associate them with, in order to have these conversations,
Well... It's a race right? ;) Personally I think racial divisions are stupid. Cultural divisions are much more exact and useful
Chinese, Nepalese, Indians, Turkics, Armenians, Arabians, Jews, Iranians etc. are all "Asians".
..... more than a few races under than 3+ billion no?