Weird to think Japan has a lower racial diversity than North Korea
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North Korea is probably "no data".
Weird that they would assign it a value of 2% if it's "no data"
Yeah, I can't believe it's even 2% TBH.
Any data would be self reported and pulled out of the dictators ass
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If I had to stab at it, maybe they consider north/south related families separately? There can’t possibly be Chinese living there outside of government contracting.
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If you want to reach people, you need to name the countries. You can't just expect people to know 200 flags of the world.
Especially when one of them is Poland, which is incredibly easy to confuse with a couple of other flags. In order from the lowest percentage to the highest:
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1st row: Japan, North Korea, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt
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2nd row: Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland, South Korea
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I mean, it's got a map, too...
I can ID Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Egypt, Tunisia, and Poland on there without even going to check if I'm right. (I also correctly guessed Bangladesh and Jordan but had to check to be sure, and incorrectly guessed Georgia instead of Armenia.)
Can't tell what the 10^th^ country is, though, as I don't see any others marked in red.
I looked it up: you are missing Comoros, apparently, which is country consisting of a few islands off the east coast of Africa, above Madagascar, near Mayotte.
Well I could identify Japan, and the map doesn't help me.
That's flat. Check mate globers! /s.
Sorry I watch way too many funny flat earth videos on YouTube. The stuff they come up to explain the world is.....well I'm not sure I could come up with it while on acid. It's pretty nuts.
I think its a good skill to know the world map. Not naming the countries is a good way of knowing wich you are missing
But unfair, it's always changing! Then again, so are lots of things. Looking at you, Pluto. You'll always be a planet in my heart
If it was just the flags maybe, the fact that it comes accompanied by a map with highlighted countries means the onus should be on them to, you know, learn something.
Comoros isn't highlighted (it's too small)
A lot of these actually make a lot of sense. All of these countries make it incredibly hard to integrate into society as a foreigner either because of domestic policy or straight up the language barrier.
In the case of Tunisia, it’s the most liberal Arab country, which is remarkably close to France because of colonialism. Many Arabs wouldn’t want to move to such a place. I don’t think Tunisian Arabic would be the barrier there.
Polish is fucking difficult to pronounce with its 4 and 5 consonant clusters (if I had to guess, most languages max out at 3), and it’s not found anywhere else in the world because Poland didn’t colonize anywhere. They were lucky to get their own country if you look into their history.
Armenia is incredibly socially, religiously, and linguistically dissimilar to everywhere around it. Good luck wanting to move there; 2/3’s of ethnic Armenians live outside the country.
Egypt is the most surprising, because it was colonized and bothered by both the British and French, but it doesn’t have that diversity anymore?
Jordan is a theocratic strong monarchy. Makes sense that non-Jordanese wouldn’t move there.
Bangladeshi people were packed into the country with the partition of India. It’s super ethnically dissimilar to Burma and India. The partition really amplified that.
Poland has a certain... reputation...which is why they haven't got much racial diversity.
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Perhaps you’re expecting all colonies to be plantations? The British plantations such as North America, Australia and NZ are still as you’d expect. But most of the empire was run for profit rather than plantation. These colonies were administered by British (later a mix of British and indigenous) civil servants and garrisons but there was no intention to build a lasting presence. The British Empire even told itself it would hand back the non-plantations after they had been “set right” for the benefit of the natives.
The point I’m getting at with colonial powers was that English/French was forced onto the locals in one way or the other. Also, British/French citizens moved to the colonies and maintained a permanent presence there, which had lasting impact all over the world.
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Your reasoning about Poland would also fit Germany, yet it's a very diverse country in the cities now... Also has language with very long words with a lot of consonants ("Angstschweiß" "Weihnachtsschmuck" ...) and they didn't really get successful colonies going (Namibia perhaps the most). They also carry quite the "reputation". I think for most European countries current diversity has more to do with inviting Gastarbeiter (Italian, Turkish, Moroccan...) and/or Soviet style topdown relocation programs of millions of people across the country (Siberia ...), and somehow Poland had few of both those scenarios? Anyhow I don't think difficulty of pronouncing polish language is the cause of low diversity.
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how is race measured
Somewhat haphazardly, probably 🤷🏻
In meters.
Laps
Yeah this seems a bit rage bitey or just illogical.
Are americans one race or are say native americans spliced out? Is it culture or actual population movement?
Also we all are un the human race to start with.
Lasers, photos, or checkered flag usually.
Racial or ethnic diversity?
Almost 30% of Jordan is Palestinian or Syrian refugees so it's racial I think.
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Japan North Korea Bangladesh Armenia Egypt Jordan Tunisia Comoros (but it's not on the map, I just know the flag) Poland South Korea
These are my guesses. This is a game, I'm only 85% sure
Seeing so many Asian countries in the list, my guess would be that white/red flag is probably Indonesia. Can't believe it is not.
Indonesian is red at the top while Polish is red at the bottom, so the flag is Polish for sure!
It is indeed Poland flag. I just always found it hard to remember. Also, I am surprised. I would guess Indonesians are more closed in for racial diversity compared to Poland. Wonder how much diversity does Indonesia actually have.
Loads. Indonesia comprises thousands of islands spread out over 5000km, which will have given rise to very different cultures + limited genetic exchange. Indonesia also only became unified for the first time as a Dutch colony in the 20th century, so whatever cultural and genetic blending is going on now, it only started happening relatively recent.
Poland in comparison is much smaller, the only natural barriers are rivers, they've been a nation for a millennium, and they had population expulsions/exchanges after ww2.
I wonder how they count this, how exactly do you define different ethnic groups
Ya got any names with those flags?
Japan, NK, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland? and SK.
Edit: It is poland, I'm just wondering how Poland got there.
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I wonder where the data comes from, considering in China there's supposedly 91% Han Chinese and that would be less diversity that South Korea
Japan must be stoked they made it under 10% again
What am I, a vexillologist?
westerners love moving to asia, because they know people are more ignorant there of the drama back home.
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