Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas
by wpasc on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:32PM
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Not either of the posters, but in many demographic calculations, those of Indian descent are often referred to as "Asian" or "Indian" with "Brown" often referring to African-descendant or Hispanic.
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There’s some interesting history here where the courts definition of caucasian used to include south Asians and was subsequently changed to prevent their naturalization.
As an aside, I often cringe at arguments involving skin-deep diversity. I’ve lived in towns that bragged of diversity when in reality they tended toward the same monolithic affluent culture regardless of skin tone.
The parent poster was making a broader point about "diversity". Unless they consider "Indians" as not diverse, that broader point doesn't stand either. Bay Area has many many towns with Asian majority - San Jose, Fremont, Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Dublin etc. come to mind. That comment was really ignorant
I've been to San Francisco proper and Indians are pretty rare there. You'd have to go outside the city to see a lot of Indians.
San Francisco 40% Asian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
> As of the 2010 census, the ethnic makeup and population of San Francisco included: 390,387 whites (48%), 267,915 Asians (33%), 48,870 African Americans (6%), and others. There were 121,744 Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15%).
> In 2010, residents of Chinese ethnicity constituted the largest single ethnic minority group in San Francisco at 21% of the population; the other Asian groups are Filipinos (5%) and Vietnamese (2%).
So less than 5% Indian.