(And, as a result of this, you will find vast swathes of this great country where all the white people have never seen an Asian person face-to-face in their entire lives)
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(If you actually end up moving there for some godforsaken reason and actually are the one Asian in a group of 19 other white people on a regular basis, it is not fun It is in fact highly psychologically taxing, even if you don't admit it to yourself at first)
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Anyway I think people get this when it comes to race, they just mess up when they think about "LGBTQ issues", because many people are still focused on coming out stories
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The media still portrays the idea of being queer like it's something that randomly strikes one of the "normal people you hang out with" like lightning, and the episode is about dealing with that great big shock Then nothing else changes, because they're a side character
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The idea that there's an entire life to be lived after coming out and that someone might make a whole bunch of life decisions based on having come out is still foreign to many cishet writers
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Even true randomness has clusters.
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Though, to one degree or another, there's a complementary point that economic systems can militate for or against clustering: e.g. 1-2 Asian (As of ca. 1990(?)-2020 Thai/Indian/etc.) restaurants in towns with a population between x and y.
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(See also, Harvard's effort ca. 1950-1960 to limit Jewish enrollment by actively recruiting outside the Northeast: which, though fairly successful tended to create a disproportionate representation of Jewish students from 'flyover districts.' e.g. Kansas/Louisiana, etc.)
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In middle school we did a probability exercise where we were all given quarters and paper and we could either flip the coin 50 times and record the results, or just make them up, and then the teacher would guess which is which 1/
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And his method was that if there were clusters of heads and tails, it was real, but if it was like HTHTHHTHTH it was fake, because statistics don't work like that 2/2
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