The Asian-American population of the US is 5% of the total so I guess I'd better go out and join a group of 19 other people (12 white people, 4 Latinx people, 2 Black people, one "Other") so as to be "accurate" Can't join any smaller groups without overrepresenting
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I don't think people also really reckon with the fact that being in an "extreme" minority *increases* the pressure to cluster rather than decreasing it
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Yeah in the "real world" the number of people officially out as trans is 1% or less Do you think the idea of being the one trans person in a room full of 99 other cis people is, like, an appealing prospect
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The Asian population of the State of Idaho is around 1% In the year my family lived in Boise I was the only Asian person my classmates had ever seen in person That wasn't a great year
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Its so weird and I hate when shows do that, and especially use it to argue for less representation on screen. "cant have too many of marginalised group in a show" "why?" "Its not realistic." Its an excuse to not represent our experiences.
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I tend to think of it as "Power Rangers diversity," mostly because I was a kid who was into the MMPR and that's when I first noticed the pattern. """Charismatic""" White Guy Leader and an assortment of Women And Minorities (East Asian, Black, Girl, and White Guy, But A Nerd)
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The Blue Ranger is also the gay representation on the team but we can't actually say it
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As a teenager I moved from a private school in country-Victoria (mostly white, conservative) to a public school in inner-Melbourne (lefty, ""multicultural""), and that was the biggest shock I expected to see nobody giving a crap about identities, but it was the exact opposite
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Like ... everybody had other friends outside their group, but the "groups" were at least 60-70% visible identity clusters, e.g. race; the interest-based cross sections like "the maths/sports/music theatre kids" had some predictive value, but a lot less
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