a) Would they notice? I've heard a lot of girls who grew up with me claim that they'd never experienced or seen any sexual discrimination. It was happening; they were in denial.
b) MRAs and spoiled white boys would answer 'yes'.
c) Desirability is affected by things like perceived safety.
d) Members of the cultural mainstream/ privileged class are likely to be unfamiliar with those phrases or unclear on what they mean.
Questions will need to be a lot more indirect. I would advise Kaigou to remember that many people do not voluntarily spend time thinking about these issues, and their perceptions are different; the surest sign I've found of being a non-activist in the dominant ethnicity is thinking that 'ethnic' means other people. As in, "oh, we're not ethnic; we're just regular folks." You won't get that answer from a 'what ethnicity are you' question with a checklist. ( Or thinking 'ethnicity' is a synonym for 'race'. There was an egregious example in a Nora Roberts book where a character was looking for a polite way to ask if someone else was non-white, and settled on "Does he have an ethnic identity?")
It would also be a lot easier to design a poll for one country at a time; the dominant groups and cultural ideals are not the same everywhere, and even though the West is more or less on top of the heap, there are areas where being of the locally-dominant group is higher status than being a random member of the globally-dominant group.
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Date: 21 May 2010 08:29 pm (UTC)b) MRAs and spoiled white boys would answer 'yes'.
c) Desirability is affected by things like perceived safety.
d) Members of the cultural mainstream/ privileged class are likely to be unfamiliar with those phrases or unclear on what they mean.
Questions will need to be a lot more indirect. I would advise Kaigou to remember that many people do not voluntarily spend time thinking about these issues, and their perceptions are different; the surest sign I've found of being a non-activist in the dominant ethnicity is thinking that 'ethnic' means other people. As in, "oh, we're not ethnic; we're just regular folks." You won't get that answer from a 'what ethnicity are you' question with a checklist. ( Or thinking 'ethnicity' is a synonym for 'race'. There was an egregious example in a Nora Roberts book where a character was looking for a polite way to ask if someone else was non-white, and settled on "Does he have an ethnic identity?")
It would also be a lot easier to design a poll for one country at a time; the dominant groups and cultural ideals are not the same everywhere, and even though the West is more or less on top of the heap, there are areas where being of the locally-dominant group is higher status than being a random member of the globally-dominant group.