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Why are people of mixed ethnicity disproportionately underrepresented in positions of power and influence within society?

So I wonder why to this date on a high level of things like the corporate world and even in the media you still mainly see white/caucasian people?

Like when I think of CEO’s, boy bands or movie stars I rarely see for example black people. I feel like they’re under represented and it needs to change.

I once asked a similar question on a different Lemmy account and they were telling me I’m racist for being against racism. How does this make sense? I’m pretty sure white supremacy is a real thing and I think it’s important to speak up about it. Why do you think this is still an issue? Do people not care about it?

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Probably a lot of proportional representation and a fairly heavy hand to bias representation. I'm tell you, it's fucking hard to get well sourced, recent data, but here are some charts to ponder:
My favorite format, but the data source was unclear.
Presentation demonstrating change over time, backed by US demographics data - about as good as we can get.
The most recent, but ... Buzzfeed? How much salt you want with that?
A consistent point is that whites are still the majority population, so you'd expect to see them more often.
But beyond that hides white, male privilege. There should be at least as many women CEOs billionaires, since women make up slightly more than 50% of the population, and yet they still comprise only 10% of the Fortune 500 CEO list. Dig into that at all and you find a massive bias.
The % on TV seems about right, or even over corrected for diversity. It's the IRL corporate America that's off-kilter, so maybe if that's what you're seeing on TV it's also accurate.
- What’s the difference between white and hispanic ? Spanish people look pretty white to me
  
  In US demographic surveys, they make a distinction between "White, non-hispanic" and "White."
  There's little difference except whether cops can shoot you and get away with it, or not.
  
  Hispanic is an ethnicity while white is a race. you can be of any race and Hispanic and of any ethnicity and white but that doesn't mean they're the same thing.
  Hispanic means Spanish-speaking people from Latin America which is different from Spanish which is a person from Spain. despite what the conquistadors would like people to think, not everyone in Latin America has Spaniard lineage. there are indigenous people that never got fully assimilated and don't speak Spanish
  
  Oh ok ty !

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