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AWall925 t1_j0mq0uj wrote

Reply to comment by theredwoman95 in History-making Asian American soccer player describes his journey to self-acceptance | Kellyn Acosta, the first Asian American to appear in the World Cup for the USMNT, described how others have dismissed his Japanese heritage, and the harmful stereotypes around Asians and sports. by AsslessBaboon

I think you're being a bit dishonest in your comment, the first bullet point on the England/ Wales page says

> In 2021, 81.7% (48.7 million) of usual residents in England and Wales identified their ethnic group within the high-level "White"

Also, I don't speak German so I'm not sure where in that report it says German nationals born in Germany are 74% of the population.

The closest I could find in English was on Index Mundi (apparently updated as of July 2021. 86% of people living in Germany identified as German

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theredwoman95 t1_j0mqz3s wrote

Do you genuinely believe that, for example, a company with British, French, and German people is less diverse than a company with British people, if the British people have different skin colours?

Personally, I don't. If a company in the UK only hired British people and gave that excuse when criticised for not employing non-Brits, they'd be laughed out of an employment tribunal.

When you're all the same nationality, you're inherently limited to how diverse you can be. And on that note, out of curiosity, what are the statistics for non-American nationals in the USA?

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AWall925 t1_j0mrle7 wrote

I think we're just on different pages here.

The OG commentor mentioned ethnostates which is defined as

"a sovereign state of which citizenship is restricted to members of a particular racial or ethnic group"

I'm talking about ethnicities, you're bringing up nationalities

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theredwoman95 t1_j0ms4dh wrote

...Except ethnicity isn't defined just by skin colour, but also by region. A white Slavic person is a different ethnicity to a white Irish person - this is demonstrated, for instance, by the fact that white Irish people as an ethnicity have a higher risk of haemochromatosis.

To quote the UK government: >We use ‘ethnic minorities’ to refer to all ethnic groups except the white British group. Ethnic minorities include white minorities, such as Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller groups.

You can also look at their list of ethnicities they used in the last census for an idea of how most European people conceptualise ethnicity.

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AWall925 t1_j0mwofu wrote

So just looking at this chart from the UK government.

From my point of view I'm looking at ethnicity in the broder sense a- the main groups listed-not the subgroups (so only Asian, Black, White, Mixed, Other). I guess we just see things differently.

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