Saturday, November 24, 2018

What Causes Racial Disparities?



Read over Wikipedia's List of ethnic groups in the United States by household income:
RankRaceMedian household income (2018 US$)
1Asian80,720[1]
2White61,349[1]
3All households57,617[1]
4Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander57,112[1]
5Hispanic or Latino (of any race)46,882[1]
6Some other race44,798[1]
7American Indian and Alaska Native39,719[1]
8Black or African American38,555[1]

  1. Indian American (2016) : $122,026 [2]
  2. Jewish American (2016) : $100,059 [3]
  3. Australian American (2016) : $91,452 [3]
  4. Taiwanese American (2016) : $90,221 [3]
  5. Filipino American (2016) : $88,745 [2]
  6. British American (2016) : $79,872[3]
  7. Austrian American (2016) : $78,127[3]
  8. Russian American (2016): $77,841 (2014)[3]
  9. Latvian American (2016): $77,636[3]
  10. Bulgarian American (2016): $76,861[3]
  11. Lithuanian American (2016) : $76,694[3]
  12. Israeli American (2016) : $76,584 [3]
  13. Slovene American (2016) : $75,940[3]
  14. Lebanese American (2016): $75,337[3]
  15. Croatian American (2016): $73,991[3]
  16. Sri Lankan American: $73,856[3]
  17. Scandinavian American (2016): $73,797[3]
  18. Chinese American (2016): $73,788[2]
    (including Taiwanese American)
  19. Belgian American (2016) : $73,443[3]
  20. Chinese American (2016): $72,827[2]
    (excluding Taiwanese American)
  21. Swiss American (2016) : $72,823[3]
  22. Iranian American (2016) : $72,733[3]
  23. Italian American (2016) : $72,586[3]
  24. Ukrainian American (2016): $72,449 [3]
  25. Romanian American (2016): $72,381[3]
  26. Greek American (2016): $72,291[3]
  27. Scottish American (2016): $71,925[3]
  28. Danish American (2016) : $71,550[3]
  29. Swedish American (2016): $71,217 [3]
  30. Polish American (2016): $71,172[3]
  31. Slavic American (2016) : $71,163[3]
  32. Norwegian American (2016): $71,142[3]
  33. Canadian American (2016) : $70,809[3]
  34. Welsh American (2016): $70,351[3]
  35. Japanese American : $70,261[4]
  36. Czech American (2016) : $70,454[3]
  37. Czechslovakian American (2016) : $70,084[3]
  38. Finnish American (2016) : $70,045[3]
  39. Serbian American (2016) : $70,028[3]
  40. Hungarian American (2016): $69,515[3]
  41. French Canadian American (2016) : $68,075[3]
  42. Portuguese American (2016): $67,807[3]
  43. Vietnamese American : $67,800[5]
    (excluding Foreign Born)
  44. English American (2016) : $67,663[3]
  45. Slovak American (2016) : $67,471[3]
  46. Armenian American (2016): $67,450[3]
  47. German American (2016): $67,306[3]
  48. Korean American : $66,737[2]
  49. Irish American (2016) : $66,688[3]
  50. Ghanaian American (2016): $66,571[3]
  51. Turkish American (2016) : $66,566[3]
  52. Palestinian American (2016): $65,170[3]
  53. Egyptian American (2016) : $64,728[3]
  54. Vietnamese American : $64,191[6]
  55. Scotch-Irish American (2016) : $64,187[3]
  56. Yugoslavian American (2016) : $63,765[3]
  57. Dutch American (2016) : $63,597[3]
  58. French American (2016) : $63,471[3]
  59. Syrian American (2016): $63,096[3]
  60. Pakistani American : $62,848[4][7]
  61. Albanian American (2016) : $62,624[3]
  62. Indonesian American : $61,943[4]
  63. Guyanese American (2016) : $60,968[3]
  64. Nigerian American (2016): $60,732[3]
  65. British West Indian American (2016): $60,407[3]
  66. Vietnamese American : $58,700[8]
    (Foreign Born)
  67. Cuban American : $57,000[9]
  68. West Indian American : $56,998[3]
  69. Brazilian American (2016): $56,151[3]
  70. Barbadian American : $56,078[3]
  71. Argentine American: $55,000[10]
  72. Laotian American : $53,655[4]
  73. Thai American : $53,468[4]
  74. Cambodian American : $53,359[4]
  75. Cajun American : $52,886[3]
  76. Jamaican American (2016): $52,669[3]
  77. Trinidadian and Tobagonian American : $55,303[3]
  78. Moroccan American (2016) : $52,436[3]
  79. Peruvian Americans : $52,000[3]
  80. American (2016): $51,601[3]
  81. Jordanian American (2016): $51,552[3]
  82. Pennsylvania German American (2016): $48,955[3]
  83. Ecuadorian American : $49,000[3]
  84. Hmong American : $48,149[4]
  85. Colombian American : $48,000[10]
  86. Haitian American (2016): $47,990[3]
  87. Cape Verdean American (2016) : $47,281[3]
  88. Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac American (2016): $44,733[3]
  89. Nepali American : $44,677[4]
  90. Bangladeshi American : $44,512[4]
  91. Afghan American : $43,838[3]
  92. Arab American (2016): $42,204[3]
  93. Bahamian American : $42,000[3]
  94. Ethiopian American (2016) : $41,357[3]
  95. Puerto Rican American : $40,000[10]
  96. Mexican American : $38,000[10]
  97. Burmese American : $35,016[4]
  98. African American : $34,600[11]
  99. Iraqi American (2016) : $32,818[3]
  100. Dominican American : $32,300[10]
  101. Honduran American: $31,000[10]
  102. Somali American (2016): $24,185[3]
  103. Salvadoran American : $20,800[9]

This is evidence Coleman Hughes cites against what he calls The Disparity Fallacy.
The disparity fallacy holds that unequal outcomes between two groups must be caused primarily by discrimination, whether overt or systemic.
It is funny to think Americans forgot to be racist against Indians or Nigerians, who both have median incomes above the average.

Coleman Hughes' essay is called, The Racism Treadmill
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