The potato farmers of Idaho are, I’m reasonably certain, distressingly pallid in appearance but no one is going around insisting that the French fry industry is going to collapse unless diversity increases there.”
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Careful you don’t give “somebody” any ideas!
Think about what happened to the white farmers in Zimbabwe!
Idaho potato farmers? lol What about those dairy farmers in Wisconsin and Minnesota? Mostly Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavians - very, very white.
Seriously, when I was in high school (in the 1950’s), it was mandatory for at least 2 years of math. Then in the 3rd and 4th years, you could choose to take advanced math classes. As soon as we reached the junior year, the gender imbalance kicked in and it was about 2:1 male vs female. I suspect it was 2 reasons: a lot of the gals thought math was hard and why bother because they would not need math if they got married, & perhaps it was actually not a subject they liked - maybe boys really were better at math?
I have one niece who is/was a wizz at math, and now when she is older, she is still obviously just a tad above her sisters and cousins in most subjects. She is not only very bright, but she is super confident. Her three sons are all into engineering fields.
Why is it that no one actually put into print another area of racial inequality - the NBA!!! NFL???