Male white privileged myth...... and white male privilege reality
The early 20th century- the height of white male privilege.
Errrrrrrr.......
THE TITANIC
......The ethnicity is almost 100% white (on an assumption European and North Americans on board were white, and south African were black.)
Uruguayan - 6
Turkish - 18
South African - 10
Asian - 18
Total passengers on board...Estimated number....2201
SURVIVAL %
FROM THE TITANIC...........
20.27%
ADULT MALES
74.35%
ADULT FEMALES
52.29%
CHILDREN
http://www.titanicandco.com/survivors.html
The white male passenger ratio may have altered very drastically of course, a few years later....
WW1 figures...
White female involvement in fighting is statistically irrelevant.
Total population of the British Isles
41,707,900
http://populstat.info/Europe/unkingdc.htm
Population of non white (approx)
150,000
Total British Army servicemen available for deployment: 7,165,280
From the Indian Army and other ‘colored troops’: 1,524,187
Total force available for deployment: 8,689,467
Total killed in action, plus died of wounds, disease or injury, plus missing presumed dead:
956,703
From the British isles.
704,803
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/some-british-army-statistics-of-the-great-war/
How real does that white male privilege myth feel, now..?