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Re:Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanic... by uncletaco on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:51PM (#11184893)
> What's even funnier is that white people are only a small percentage of world population but have the audacity to refer to all other races as 'minorities'.

I am fairly certain that is because they are often referring to other races in their own countries. If you live in the US, most of your news is about North America and Europe, both continents that are predominantly filled with white people.

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Re:Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanic... by eip on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:05PM (#11184973)
A pretty large percentage of Americans would refer to a black person born and living in Africa (or any other continent besides the Americas) as African-American. So you may be giving them more credit than they deserve.

I would bet a large percentage of Americans couldn't identify their home state on a map of the world.

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