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The article mentions that there was a hiring freeze of white and Asian candidates and shows in a demographic breakdown that 56% of its employees are white.

The US is 76.9% of the US "white alone" according to its Census data. The corresponding figure for California is 72.7%.

It's interesting that YouTube (allegedly) made the decision to freeze hires of a racial group already underrepresented and that the text of the article never touched upon the point. The ethnic group truly overrepresented in US tech companies is Asians.

It's an unfortunate trend of treating people as members of groups rather than individuals to begin with, but it's doubly unfortunate that so many Americans are struggling even to speak openly about the what the current numbers are.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217



"white alone" includes Hispanic. You need to read "white alone, not Hispanic".

Anyway, going by https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountyc...

San Mateo County is:

40% white alone

29% Asian alone

From that data alone, whites could actually be more over-represented than Asians. (I stress could because you need per-site info to conclude anything)

Regardless, I don't see evidence that whites are underrepresented.


San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Based upon the rapid downvoting, I'll work off the premise that I misread the statistics and ask for clarification:

Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to?

The San Mateo numbers in the link you shared say:

    24.8% Hispanic or Latino
    39.8% White alone, not Hispanic
    61.4% White alone
Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category?

This would be clearer if race were one category and "household language" were a completely separate one. :/


> Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to?

This is defined in the footing - hispanic is not a race

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf...

> Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category?

Yes

> San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about.

Possible, but you'd need more evidence to make this claim. SF and Santa Clara have similar demographics; that's nearly 4M people across these 3 counties.




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