But would we be content to charge different premia according to ethnicity if statistics demonstrated that (say) African-Caribbean drivers had fewer crashes than their south-east Asian counterparts?
Consistent with past research [ 24, 30], ethnicity-specific statistics, designed to increase identification with targeted materials, helped participants to see themselves as a part of a high-risk group, emphasizing the importance of the referent group.
In spite of the widespread belief that Japan is ethnically homogeneous (in 2009, foreign-born non-naturalized workers made up only 1.7% of the total population), also because of the absence of ethnicity and/or race statistics for Japanese nationals, at least one analysis describes Japan as a multiethnic society, for example, John Lie.
Due to the invisibility of Kurdish ethnicity in immigration statistics, Iraqi and Iranian census data was used as a compromise substitute, although significant limitations exist with this.
A similar but less intense response was noted in discussions of ethnicity-specific health statistics.
Just a generation ago, we were considered so homogenous that the government didn't even put out statistics about ethnicity.
But there seems at last to be agreement that laws enforcing colour-blindness - for instance, by banning statistics revealing ethnicity - are unhelpful.
The suburbs are thought to remain majority white, though no one knows for sure because, in France, collecting statistics by ethnicity or religion is illegal.
After all, names can provide an immediate indication of someone's background in a country that does not include ethnicity in its national statistics, and where salaries are rarely discussed in public.
The Kurds are thought to number from 25 million to 30 million, including communities in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, and Europe, but sources for this information differ widely because of differing criteria of ethnicity, religion, and language; statistics may also be manipulated for political purposes.
