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[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Weird to think Japan has a lower racial diversity than North Korea

[-] AAA@feddit.org 44 points 1 week ago

North Korea is probably "no data".

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Weird that they would assign it a value of 2% if it's "no data"

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I can't believe it's even 2% TBH.

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[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

If I had to stab at it, maybe they consider north/south related families separately? There can’t possibly be Chinese living there outside of government contracting.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Why do you think it was some pure ethnostate in the first place, and why wouldn't Chinese people count?

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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago

If you want to reach people, you need to name the countries. You can't just expect people to know 200 flags of the world.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 48 points 1 week ago

Especially when one of them is Poland, which is incredibly easy to confuse with a couple of other flags. In order from the lowest percentage to the highest:

  • 1st row: Japan, North Korea, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt

  • 2nd row: Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland, South Korea

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

🇺🇸 🇱🇷 🇲🇾 🇨🇱

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I mean, it's got a map, too...

I can ID Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Egypt, Tunisia, and Poland on there without even going to check if I'm right. (I also correctly guessed Bangladesh and Jordan but had to check to be sure, and incorrectly guessed Georgia instead of Armenia.)

Can't tell what the 10^th^ country is, though, as I don't see any others marked in red.

[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I looked it up: you are missing Comoros, apparently, which is country consisting of a few islands off the east coast of Africa, above Madagascar, near Mayotte.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Well I could identify Japan, and the map doesn't help me.

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[-] ManfredMumpitz@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

I think its a good skill to know the world map. Not naming the countries is a good way of knowing wich you are missing

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But unfair, it's always changing! Then again, so are lots of things. Looking at you, Pluto. You'll always be a planet in my heart

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[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A lot of these actually make a lot of sense. All of these countries make it incredibly hard to integrate into society as a foreigner either because of domestic policy or straight up the language barrier.

In the case of Tunisia, it’s the most liberal Arab country, which is remarkably close to France because of colonialism. Many Arabs wouldn’t want to move to such a place. I don’t think Tunisian Arabic would be the barrier there.

Polish is fucking difficult to pronounce with its 4 and 5 consonant clusters (if I had to guess, most languages max out at 3), and it’s not found anywhere else in the world because Poland didn’t colonize anywhere. They were lucky to get their own country if you look into their history.

Armenia is incredibly socially, religiously, and linguistically dissimilar to everywhere around it. Good luck wanting to move there; 2/3’s of ethnic Armenians live outside the country.

Egypt is the most surprising, because it was colonized and bothered by both the British and French, but it doesn’t have that diversity anymore?

Jordan is a theocratic strong monarchy. Makes sense that non-Jordanese wouldn’t move there.

Bangladeshi people were packed into the country with the partition of India. It’s super ethnically dissimilar to Burma and India. The partition really amplified that.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Poland has a certain... reputation...which is why they haven't got much racial diversity.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

Perhaps you’re expecting all colonies to be plantations? The British plantations such as North America, Australia and NZ are still as you’d expect. But most of the empire was run for profit rather than plantation. These colonies were administered by British (later a mix of British and indigenous) civil servants and garrisons but there was no intention to build a lasting presence. The British Empire even told itself it would hand back the non-plantations after they had been “set right” for the benefit of the natives.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The point I’m getting at with colonial powers was that English/French was forced onto the locals in one way or the other. Also, British/French citizens moved to the colonies and maintained a permanent presence there, which had lasting impact all over the world.

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[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Somewhat haphazardly, probably 🤷🏻

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lasers, photos, or checkered flag usually.

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[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between racial diversity and racism (whether casual or systemic). Of course it's not easy to quantify the latter...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not sure about the actual prevalence of racism, but one thing I can tell you is that living in a less diverse place makes it real easy for people to be blissfully unaware of their own racism, whereas actually interacting with people of other races forces them to confront it about themselves.

I've seen plenty of people here on Lemmy from lily-white states like Minnesota or Montana dunking on the South in the most bigoted way while simultaneously being holier-than-thou about it.

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[-] magikmw@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

I bet there's plenty research on it. I have a lot of thoughts from Polish perspective, but I don't actually know anything about it.

I.E. I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland because there's no history that would bring it (no colonialism history in modern era and post-WW2 erased any laws from 30s.

Causal, very much - less these days in media, but there's still racist idioms and jokes. I'd say it's directly proportional to familiarity, but not exactly malicious.

Then there's obviously neonazis and "intellectual racists" that have it all figured out.

That's my casual take about this very not casual topic.

[-] pno2nr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Also only anecdotal, but when the foreign uni students were evacuated from Ukraine, Poland allowed them all except for the students from Africa.

[-] magikmw@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

It's still bad, but I bet it was thoughtless "Ukrainian students" instead of "students in Ukraine" - that is nationality criteria, not place of study.

We have a bunch of various Asian, Indian and African students - again, also anegdotal.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland

I would suspect there's a lot of systemic racism, but more focused on "holding the line" of immigration rather than attacking the existing minority groups.

[-] magikmw@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Probably true. But then there's a lot of immigration happening, especially to Warsaw from places other than Ukraine. I don't know how it statistically compares to other countries around us.

I also just realized there's no definition of ethnic diversity on this picture, and where exactly the data is from, so it could be pretty skewed.

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[-] yellerbadger@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

The president of Tunisia is one of those Great Replacement freaks who thinks Sub-Saharan Africans are intent on displacing native Tunisians. My understanding is that that applies to the society as a whole.

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[-] alfredon996@feddit.it 14 points 1 week ago

Racial or ethnic diversity?

[-] fcuks@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

what's the difference? I have been using both interchangeably so interested in learning the nuance

[-] alfredon996@feddit.it 1 points 6 days ago

I would say that race is genetic, while ethnicity is culture and religion

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[-] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Japan North Korea Bangladesh Armenia Egypt Jordan Tunisia Comoros (but it's not on the map, I just know the flag) Poland South Korea

These are my guesses. This is a game, I'm only 85% sure

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Seeing so many Asian countries in the list, my guess would be that white/red flag is probably Indonesia. Can't believe it is not.

[-] MrKurteous@feddit.nu 12 points 1 week ago

Indonesian is red at the top while Polish is red at the bottom, so the flag is Polish for sure!

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

It is indeed Poland flag. I just always found it hard to remember. Also, I am surprised. I would guess Indonesians are more closed in for racial diversity compared to Poland. Wonder how much diversity does Indonesia actually have.

[-] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Loads. Indonesia comprises thousands of islands spread out over 5000km, which will have given rise to very different cultures + limited genetic exchange. Indonesia also only became unified for the first time as a Dutch colony in the 20th century, so whatever cultural and genetic blending is going on now, it only started happening relatively recent.

Poland in comparison is much smaller, the only natural barriers are rivers, they've been a nation for a millennium, and they had population expulsions/exchanges after ww2.

Ya got any names with those flags?

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Japan, NK, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland? and SK.

Edit: It is poland, I'm just wondering how Poland got there.

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[-] joan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I wonder how they count this, how exactly do you define different ethnic groups

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

What am I, a vexillologist?

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Japan must be stoked they made it under 10% again

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