Lord of the Midnight Sun

the FAA air traffic controller scandal was entirely due to this. black people just did not apply to be ATC operators. if they accepted every single black person who applied, they still would not have enough black people to not be judged as Intentionally Doing A Racism, so they had to intentionally lower the supply of ATC operators just so the percentage of them that was black would be higher. nobody noticed this was insane.

when you look at the communities or fields that have a Good Ratio of minorities, zero of them ever do it by the means that progressives demand. Capcom and Midway and SNK did not do anything in particular to intentionally make fighting games more welcoming to black people, and black people fucking love fighting games. Japanese anime studios didn't do anything to intentionally make anime more welcoming to Latinos, and Latinos fucking love anime. Nail salons are almost entirely Vietnamese and Jews do a lot of work in finance.

the fact of the matter is that members of An Identity Class usually hang out with members of the same Identity and you pick up interests from people you hang out with. a bunch of Vietnamese refugees got taught how to do manicures and pedicures by Dusty Coots in the 70s, and they ran nail salons with that knowledge, and then the people they hung out with were mostly Vietnamese and those people were like "huh, nail salon, that's a thing I can do," and you knew people who could train you how to do it. other ethnicities could have done that -- Dusty Coots learned it from somewhere -- but it's not really on the radar.

Jewish people historically did finance because they were some of the only people in the world who didn't erupt into a blood rage at the concept of an interest-bearing loan. so they had a culture of being good at it, and if you hang out with Jewish people all the time you probably know a lot of guys in finance and have several family members in it so when you're thinking about what you wanna do "finance" is one of the first things that comes to mind, you know people who can get you a position somewhere and you know that it's a nice living to make. other ethnicities do it too but non-Jewish people probably don't have nearly as many acquaintances in finance.

Latin American countries did not have a big TV industry in the 80s and 90s with a bunch of original Spanish or Portuguese-language programs, but Japanese anime was cheap to license and easy to dub so a bunch of Latinos grew up watching anime, and now if you hang out with Latinos you know a lot of guys who want you to watch Naruto and Dragonball because they think they're super cool.

In the 1990s, arcades were far more profitable in high-density urban areas and high-density urban areas have a lot more black people in them. fighting games were the main draw of arcades because Internet matchmaking didn't exist, ports to home consoles were always much worse quality, and their main draw was player-vs-player (good at a place where a bunch of people meet up) rather than player-vs-CPU (can do that at home). so a bunch of black people really got into Street Fighter II, and if you hang out with black people, you probably know a disproportionately large number of people who love fighting games and have fun with them and want to play against you.

sewing and quilting were economically vital but less physically taxing tasks that don't require a lot of movement, so traditionally women did them in the house while looking after the kids. and if you're a girl you hung out more with your mother even after this division of labor wasn't necessary. now that it;s no longer a necessity in any household, the people who still do it as a hobby are people who like doing it, and if you're a woman you hang out with other women who are themselves more likely to have found out they enjoy quilting and knitting and so on.

all of these things are historically contingent reasons + people generally hanging out with members of their own Identity. none of these things are an effort to make something More Inclusive.