Some things don't change

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Nothing has been ruled out.

Your attempt to defend your argument is an absurdity.

Ethnicity has absolutely nothing at all to do with religion.

People can change their religion.

Ethnicity cannot be changed.

For example:

Jesus was Jewish.

Modern Israelis are typically Jewish from eastern european origins.

Jesus was not eastern european.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Sorry, Tom, I can't deal with this today. I could pick any statistic and you'd argue against it in this manner.

How am I supposed to show ethnic and cultural diversity – something that you can't really quantify – using the data from sources that we'd both consider unbiased (e.g. the census)?

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Census statistics is a logical starting point.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I tried that.

Or do you mean census statistics for reported ethnicity? Surely that'll just be testing how many options the government puts in?

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

87.1% white in 2011.

There's no way you even tried.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh, you meant race by "ethnicity". Ok. Thanks for the clarification.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No. I'm mean ethnicity, by ethnicity.

Race is a political term. The term "race" is not interchangable with ethnicity.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then why are you using race as a measure of ethnicity? (Is it because there isn't really a good metric?)