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Slightly racist observation about the sample data:

there is surprisingly large amount of Asian-sounding and Middle-East-sounding names there. Not sure how the data was chosen, but I would expect more... white-sounding names.



The announcement says the sample is from the "apac" region, which I think is Asia-Pacific.


It says sample "from apac region" right in the pastebin.


Oh. I missed that. That makes sense then.


More specifically, all the sample data is from Malaysia. So you'll get mostly Chinese, Malay and Indian names.

(I'm Malaysian).


Thanks!

(by the way, I want to visit Singapore in the summer once I have my finals done. But that's beside the point.)


that's not racist at all, just unobservant. It's not racism to think a name sounds Asian. How did we get so confused about terms like racism and feminism.




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