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In reply to the discussion: so, what is the whitest possible sport? [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)Sports are typically considered "White" because they had historically excluded people of color, either explicitly (as in No Blacks Allowed) like in the early days, to the 1940's in Baseball, the early days of Basketball, Swimming, etc... OR they excluded by other means typically financial and then the "culture" aspect again, you can point to the exclusion of Black people from municipal swimming pools as a reason why there are so few Black swimmers in the United States.
When you talk about "Snow" sports, well then geographical differences in skin color come into play. There is little snow, where the people of the world have the darkest skin color. That is just a fact of geography and biological analogs. Certainly there are Black and Brown people who ski, but you don't see high numbers because in areas of the world where people have dark skin, there is very little snow. Add to that, it is expensive to learn to ski so people who have not been exposed to the sport as a part of growing up in a country where it is popular, or in a family that is amenable and able to afford to participating.
Also, how are we defining White here? I am considered "White" as part of the Census, though I have never and would not ever consider myself as White.