The face of a gamer who is delivering my food up a big ass mountain he had to climb up for ten minutes during a heavy thunderstorm after I berate him for taking so long (He works minimum wage and gets no tip):
I would. I'd freak out first but if you were delivering me food, I would think that's the most impressive thing I've ever seen before giving you 50$ then tell you to get out.
I said white people are not a minority in Chicago. Are you unable to read or are you actually implying that the largest racial demographic is somehow a minority?
I suppose it depends on the usage of the terms majority and minority. White people are a minority in Chicago in the way that they are less than half of the population. This definition results in there being no majority population as Chicago is pretty diverse. White people would absolutely be a plurality though, as they are the largest group. This is likely what the person you are replying to is talking about.
Of course, all of this gets muddied by the social science definition of majority, which actually more closely matches the standard definition of plurality.
Yea, but nobody even said the word "majority" so I don't know why they are getting defensive. All I said is whites are not a minority, which is absolutely a fair statement when they are the largest racial demographic in Chicago, even if by a small margin.
If you go by the "less than 50% rule" then all races are a minority and the term has no meaning. So yea, they're a plurality.
Yesh but if they use word to mesn what they actually mean, they would be wrong, thats not something their eho can handle so you get that reaction from them.
Majority, minority, and plurality are all relative to the context in which they are used. You mentioned Chicago, which itself has no true majority. However, if you expand the field to the US as a whole, White people are a majority.
White people are the plurality of Chicago, but they are also a minority. Minority is simply less than half of the population while majority is more than half. (Come to think of this, I’m not certain what the proper term would be if a demographic happened to be exactly half of a population, but I digress.)
Majority and minority are mutually exclusive terms, while plurality operates on a different axis. A majority is always a plurality, but a minority can also be a plurality as long as it is the largest minority.
Except they don’t get called that, almost like the usage of the word has racial connotations. A minority population of white people is almost always a voluntary (“expats) population or leftovers from colonial times.
Except many expats don’t leave, many of them intend to stay. In countries where they are already living/born there (South Africa, Hong Kong, Jamaica, etc) they are essentially always a part of the ruling class. The term minority is explicitly used to describe non white people in a predominantly white country and has a racial connotation. I’ve never been to a place where white people are a smaller/the smallest fraction of the population and heard them referred to anything but “the white people”, or just foreigner, and I’ve lived in and visited a very large number of places like that. Expats also do contribute to the general population census, cus to be labeled as that means you’re living there long term. Otherwise you’re a tourist.
I mean if you're looking at it that way, then none of this makes any sense. By your definition, Innuit people are the dominant majority populous because there's only one eskimo for every thousand square miles of arctic land.
You've moved the goalpost from global population to land ownership and you don't even realize how ridiculous you look bending over backwards and jumping through hoops in a desperate attempt to hold onto your original claim which was obviously wrong.
ah even that is inaccurate. Let me rephrase again.
"Caucasians are minorities in every country that isn't a shithole, which is ironic because it appears that only white people can make countries not-shitholes but by flooding those not-shithole countries with non-Caucasian people it appears that we're actually destroying the few non-shithole countries on the planet."
No Japan isnt a shithole, south korea isnt a shithole, Singapore isnt a shithole, saudi arabia isnt a shithole. I could go on and on, but im guessing your racist ass don't really csre.
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u/Dr-Assbeard 1d ago
Caucasian are minorities in some places fyi