On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Rishab Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The US does suck at representation of ethnic minorities. Do you happen >> to have the numbers for Canada and the UK? > > i wonder why we have this tradition of providing footnotes on silk, when we > also have this tradition of commenting without reading linked articles :-)
Sorry. Not to self: Do not check silk-list emails during meetings when you don't have enough mental bandwidth to click on all links. > but here are all the other figures from the economist (yesss!) article: > "$country: $perc-in-parliament / $perc-in-population" > > britain: 2.3 / 9.5 > canada: 7.8 / 15.9 > france: 0.4 / 12.6 > germany: 1.3 / 4.8 > netherlands: 8.0 / 10.9 > new zealand: 21.5 / 31.5 > US: 15.9 / 31.0 > > actually, it's only the US and canada where indigenous people are excluded in > the count of ethnic minorities; in new zealand maoris are included, and in > france the % in population is an estimate since the french census in a fit of > "if you believe it it will happen" doesn't collect any data on ethnicity or > religion. According to the 2000 census data, indigenous people are less than 1% of the US population (0.87%; 2.4 million)[1]. The ratio is not going to change much even including them in counts of ethnic minority. I do not know enough about Canada. In the US, the indigenous people are largely self governed under tribal law [2] that is largely outside the purview of US Federal or State governments. Thaths [1] http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/indian.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_recognition_in_the_United_States -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
