SuperScript29
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- Nov 17, 2017
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I don't disagree with you, but it stands that someone from your own cultural background and gender is more likely to have similar interests to you (I have no data to back that up, just going off of anecdotal experience so feel free to disagree), so when one race/gender (the white man in our society) dominates the plurality of people in power, it leaks down into other positions as well, even if unintentionally. I'm not even sure it makes someone racist/sexist, it is a part of human nature to want to spend more time with someone you think you'd get along with rather than someone you wouldn't.
I feel like a lot of this racial/gender thing is probably personality and cultural bias. I guess cultural bias can be somewhat on that level, though it's more about ethnicity rather than race, and it tends to be more prevalent among immigrant minorities from my experience. I come from an ethnic minority myself, and I can tell you that within my own ethnic group that this bias thing exists, even more so than your typical white populations of North America, Europe, Australia, etc.