{"id":109,"date":"2003-07-24T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/our_great_melting_pot_not\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:47:14","slug":"our_great_melting_pot_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/24\/our_great_melting_pot_not\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Great Melting Pot… Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ethnic<\/div>\n

\nThere’s an interesting article on Corante about a comparison of Xanga and LiveJournal communities<\/a>. It shows that “a LiveJournal user picked at random is overwhelmingly likely to be white, while a random Xangan is much more likely to be Asian or Asian-American”, as you can see clearly by the graph. A large part of the reason for this is that these communities grow virally through friends. So much for that melting pot theory. I’d like to see a similar study done on Friendster’s user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article on Corante about a comparison of Xanga and LiveJournal communities. It shows that “a LiveJournal user picked at random is overwhelmingly likely to be white, while a random Xangan is much more likely to be Asian or Asian-American”, as you can see clearly by the graph. A large part of the… Continue reading Our Great Melting Pot… Not!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/archived-for-posterity-kenneth-engs-why-i-hate-blacks-article\/","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":0},"title":"Archived for Posterity: Kenneth Eng’s ‘Why I Hate Blacks’ Article","date":"March 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Just thought I'd archive some (more) ignorance: This is a copy of the controversial opinion piece by Kenneth Eng in Asian Week magazine: Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Blacks hate us. 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