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Visible Minorities in Canada 2006
Visible minorities made up 16.2% of the total population in Canada in 2006, according to the newly-released 2006 Census data. Visible minorities are defined as “persons, other than Aboriginal persons,...
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Racial demographics of Toronto (CMA): 42.9% visible minorities
Visible minorities accounted for 42.9% or 2,174,100 of the population in Toronto (Census Metropolitan Area), according to the 2006 Census. The largest visible minority groups in Toronto were South...
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Most Japanese Canadians are Canadian-born.
If you ask an Asian in Canada, “Where are you from?”, the person may be take offense at being assumed a foreigner because of her race, or she may be happy to tell you about her motherland. Foreign-born...
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South Asians in Canada: Ethnic Origin and Country of Birth
South Asians were the largest visible minority group in Canada according to the 2006 Census. However, South Asians are a very diverse group with respect to both ethnic origin and country of birth....
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Americans of Color elected Obama. White Americans elected McCain.
Most White Americans voted for John McCain, while most Asian Americans, Latin@ Americans, Black Americans, and Other Americans voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential...
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There are more Sri Lankans in Canada than in the United States.
In 2006, about 103 625 Canadians and residents of Canada were of Sri Lankan ethnic origin. Canada has admitted far more immigrants from Sri Lanka than the United States. Below is a graph showing the...
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Second-generation visible minority Canadians are more likely to report...
A higher proportion of second-generation visible minority Canadians reported experiences of perceived discrimination than first-generation visible minorities, according to a 2007 study. (In my graph,...
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Libertarianism is rational for rich white people only.
Libertarianism is a political philosophy that is fiscally conservative, but socially liberal—except when it concerns social issues that involve money or property. Stereotypically, libertarianism is...
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This is why liberal Canada has a conservative Prime Minister.
Only 36% of Canadians would vote for the Conservative Party if a federal election was held the next day, according to an EKOS poll conducted in late September. The votes of the other 64% of Canadians...
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Biology and math do not explain why there are few women in computer science.
Slideshow by Terri Oda: Click on the play button to advance to the next slide. (via Geek Feminism)
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Men in IT are paid more than women in IT.
Women IT professionals earn 13% less than men IT professionals, according to BCS. In other words, men in IT are paid 15% more than women in IT. (Note that the Y axis does not start at £0.) (Via The...
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Male IT geeks tend to think they are “low status” males.
Why are male IT geeks less successful in attracting women than other males, on average? Why are there few women in IT? Among male geeks, a popular explanation for both these phenomena is that women...
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Women prefer good-looking men to high-earning men.
Women prefer physically attractive men to high-earning men: When male geeks talk about what (heterosexual) women want in men, they typically assert that women evolved to be attracted to a man’s...
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Diversity in color names is not caused by innate sex differences.
Randall Munroe of xkcd fame conducted a web survey on color perception, and here are the results on (chromosomal) sex differences (although the correct labels should be “Actual color names if you do...
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Statistics of Women of Colour Profiles at OkCupid
OkCupid statistically analyzed the profiles of their users and found the phrases that made each racial group distinct: We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their...
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Map of White Segregation/Enclaves in Toronto
Statistics Canada has a “thematic” map of the percentage of visible minorities in Toronto CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) in 2006. You can click on the map below to see a larger version. Generally, the...
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Map of Recent Immigrants in Toronto: 1981 versus 2006
For these maps, “recent immigrants” are those who arrived in Canada within the last five years of the Census date. You can click on the maps to see larger versions. 1981 2006 Via Recent immigrant...
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Canada’s Recent Immigrants’ Country of Birth, 2006
You can click on the map below to see a larger version. Top 10 places of birth 155 105 People’s Republic of China 129 140 India 77 880 Philippines 57 630 Pakistan 38 770 United States of America 35 450...
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In which Mark and Eduardo fulfill their yellow fever dreams
I wish all my news came in the form delivered by Next Media Animation TV. The Facebook Movie in One Minute (via Jenn at Racialicious and Reappropriate) transcript: The ‘Facebook Movie’ is the story of...
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Othering and Projection: Chinese is confusing vs. Chinese are confused
In English, a person says, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they do not understand the words of someone else. In Greek, when a person does not understand, they say it sounds like Chinese. Many languages...
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