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[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Weird to think Japan has a lower racial diversity than North Korea

[-] AAA@feddit.org 47 points 2 weeks ago

North Korea is probably "no data".

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

North Korea is coloured in, looks like the grapher lumped them in with South Korea…

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Weird that they would assign it a value of 2% if it's "no data"

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I can't believe it's even 2% TBH.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Any data would be self reported and pulled out of the dictators ass

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[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why do you think it was some pure ethnostate in the first place, and why wouldn't Chinese people count?

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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 49 points 2 weeks ago

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:

  • 1st row: Japan, North Korea, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt

  • 2nd row: Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland, South Korea

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

🇺🇸 🇱🇷 🇲🇾 🇨🇱

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Well I could identify Japan, and the map doesn't help me.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There is no colour coding between the flags and highlighted countries so you can't learn from this alone. You have to look elsewhere. Yet there are millions of things to look up, so I need a reason to make flags a priority over the other things I look up every day, and I don't see it. I enjoy the Geography Now channel but even that channel mostly dropped discussing the flags.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Comoros isn't highlighted (it's too small)

[-] ManfredMumpitz@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Poland has a certain... reputation...which is why they haven't got much racial diversity.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Somewhat haphazardly, probably 🤷🏻

[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between racial diversity and racism (whether casual or systemic). Of course it's not easy to quantify the latter...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not sure about the actual prevalence of racism, but one thing I can tell you is that living in a less diverse place makes it real easy for people to be blissfully unaware of their own racism, whereas actually interacting with people of other races forces them to confront it about themselves.

I've seen plenty of people here on Lemmy from lily-white states like Minnesota or Montana dunking on the South in the most bigoted way while simultaneously being holier-than-thou about it.

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[-] magikmw@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

I bet there's plenty research on it. I have a lot of thoughts from Polish perspective, but I don't actually know anything about it.

I.E. I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland because there's no history that would bring it (no colonialism history in modern era and post-WW2 erased any laws from 30s.

Causal, very much - less these days in media, but there's still racist idioms and jokes. I'd say it's directly proportional to familiarity, but not exactly malicious.

Then there's obviously neonazis and "intellectual racists" that have it all figured out.

That's my casual take about this very not casual topic.

[-] pno2nr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Also only anecdotal, but when the foreign uni students were evacuated from Ukraine, Poland allowed them all except for the students from Africa.

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[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland

I would suspect there's a lot of systemic racism, but more focused on "holding the line" of immigration rather than attacking the existing minority groups.

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[-] yellerbadger@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

The president of Tunisia is one of those Great Replacement freaks who thinks Sub-Saharan Africans are intent on displacing native Tunisians. My understanding is that that applies to the society as a whole.

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[-] anthropomorphized@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] MrKurteous@feddit.nu 11 points 2 weeks ago

Indonesian is red at the top while Polish is red at the bottom, so the flag is Polish for sure!

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] alfredon996@feddit.it 14 points 2 weeks ago

Racial or ethnic diversity?

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[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ya got any names with those flags?

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[-] joan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder how they count this, how exactly do you define different ethnic groups

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Japan must be stoked they made it under 10% again

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

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