Weird to think Japan has a lower racial diversity than North Korea
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North Korea is probably "no data".
Weird that they would assign it a value of 2% if it's "no data"
Yeah, I can't believe it's even 2% TBH.
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If these conclusions are backed by science, then they are based on the collection of DNA. A scientist would need to sequence the genomes of thousands-maybe tens of thousands-of random people from all across the country. The more populous the country, the more random samples would need to be collected to derive meaningful results.
...this imposes limitations on which countries could be analyzed. Smaller countries would be easier, and they'd need to be of some economic or scientific interest to justify the cost. In a country like North Korea, only the government would be allowed to collect this data. If they were willing to spend the money, I doubt they would release even anonymized results.
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.
Why do you think it was some pure ethnostate in the first place, and why wouldn't Chinese people count?
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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.
Poland has a certain... reputation...which is why they haven't got much racial diversity.
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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.
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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how is race measured
Somewhat haphazardly, probably 🤷🏻
In meters.
Yeah this seems a bit rage bitey or just illogical.
Are americans one race or are say native americans spliced out? Is it culture or actual population movement?
Also we all are un the human race to start with.
Lasers, photos, or checkered flag usually.
Laps
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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
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.
Indonesian is red at the top while Polish is red at the bottom, so the flag is Polish for sure!
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.
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?
Japan, NK, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland? and SK.
Edit: It is poland, I'm just wondering how Poland got there.
Racism? Nationalism?
Racial or ethnic diversity?
what's the difference? I have been using both interchangeably so interested in learning the nuance
Almost 30% of Jordan is Palestinian or Syrian refugees so it's racial I think.
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westerners love moving to asia, because they know people are more ignorant there of the drama back home.
I wonder how they count this, how exactly do you define different ethnic groups
I wonder where the data comes from, considering in China there's supposedly 91% Han Chinese and that would be less diversity that South Korea
Japan must be stoked they made it under 10% again
What am I, a vexillologist?
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