By: Karl Zimmerman
People are making claims without any backing that minorities are massively over-represented in TV, and they just aren’t, period. From 2002: Despite the ever-increasing diversity of American society,...
View ArticleBy: syon
Out of curiosity, I did a quick WIKIPEDIA scan of Americans of Middle Eastern/North African ancestry: Alia Shawkat: Iraqi father Shannon Elizabeth: Syrian father Danny Thomas: Lebanese Kathy Najimy:...
View ArticleBy: John Emerson
In Portland, Oregon there’s a fully-assimilated Christian Arab-American community at least a century old. Actually two, Maronite and “Orthodox”. As far as I know they were just regarded as dark...
View ArticleBy: chris w
I never noticed these white Christian Arabs here in Portland. Bud-dum-dum-pssh!!!
View ArticleBy: Doug1
Karl– I didn’t say minorities in general were way overrepresented on TV and in the movies. I said blacks are. The article you quoted doesn’t contradict that. Blacks having 16% of prime time roles is a...
View ArticleBy: John Emerson
Arab American in Portland: Governor Atiyeh and the other Atiyehs, County Commisioner Dan Mosee, various Kafourys in the legislature and elsewhere, various Kahls, the Johns family. Arab-Americans as...
View ArticleBy: syon
chris w:”I never noticed these white Christian Arabs here in Portland. Bud-dum-dum-pssh!!!” That’s how successful assimilation works: People don’t notice.
View ArticleBy: Justin Giancola
hmm, I was going to post something really long but it was too long for me to feel comfortable as this is not my blog. 15. and 18 help me with this point that I’d like to make that the word white now is...
View ArticleBy: Justin Giancola
Also funny to some other comments is how when I went to Russia I had to dispel false ideas about the demographics of America! I’d say other countries perceptions aren’t far from the American ones!
View ArticleBy: Karl Zimmerman
Doug, First, you need to take into account that blacks make up a disproportionate percentage of TV viewers – somewhere on the order of 20%. So there will be some level of disproportional representation...
View ArticleBy: Peter
WRT the idea of Arab Christians as white, with a few exceptions such as the Iraqis in Portland and the occasional Palestinian, most are from Lebanon or Syria – generally speaking, the Arab countries...
View ArticleBy: John Emerson
I’ve known very few Arabs that were darker than dark Italians, though. Not surprising given the history of the Italian South.
View ArticleBy: syon
Peter:”If most Arab Christians in America were, say, Egyptian Copts, we wouldn’t think of Arab Christians as white.” I’m rather doubtful of this. I’ve known a few Copts* (I grew up near a Copt...
View ArticleBy: Justin Giancola
I’d like to see some ideas of where people are coming from here with the Southern European stuff that is always throw around. How much are we in tune with facial features over skin tone? And what...
View ArticleBy: syon
Justin Giancola:”2. I feel like the people making these censuses are stuck in the turn of century with Madison Grant and co. It’s basically a ‘you guys are so marginal you don’t deserve your own...
View ArticleBy: Doug1
Karl— I think it has relatively little to do with the “multicultural” media, and instead is mainly about people (even bright people) being very bad at understanding statistics. I think it has a huge...
View ArticleBy: Clark
What’s interesting is how similar a lot of the estimates actually are. The estimate of whites is typically around 60% with a low of ~57% by blacks and a high of 62% in the west. I suspect part of that...
View ArticleBy: Peter
I grew up in a city that has a fairly substantial number of Albanian and Kosovar Muslims. While they were considered white, it was a sort of grudging acceptance, people thought of them as “white-ish.”...
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