I love the nearly racist truth that there are clear tiers for countries and helpful YouTube content.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
Computer scientist? Indian man.
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Physics? White girl; geographic region not important. Or black American man.
Mental Health: woman either American or vaguely from geographic region of India.
Mathematics? British accent or Asian descent.
I am not sure why this pattern seems to exist, but it feels present. If you seek help on YouTube with any of these subjects I imagine you’ve seen it.
Like if I’m looking for an explanation on Colombs Law, I want a guy that sounds like ElectroBoom. If I need to know about Discrete Finite Automata, Ill click the first guy with a turban. If I want to know about the poincare conjecture, Im looking for snaggletooths. If I want the latest from James web, I’m looking for a ponytail or Sabine.
Well it has to do with culture/educational systems.
For example in Japan they still teach the abacus(soroban) as they see it helps visualise calculations which makes mental mathematics easier.
On the flip side Japan barely teaches spoken english and focuses mostly on written tests. So the typical japanese person can read/write english but can barely form an english sentence when speaking.
I feel called out by the electrical engineering part, I did tinker with electrical stuff ever since I was a kid and know a ton of shit about it >!(Also explains why I suck at programming but that’s not the point)!<
I love the nearly racist truth that there are clear tiers for countries and helpful YouTube content.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
Computer scientist? Indian man.
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Physics? White girl; geographic region not important. Or black American man.
Mental Health: woman either American or vaguely from geographic region of India.
Mathematics? British accent or Asian descent.
I am not sure why this pattern seems to exist, but it feels present. If you seek help on YouTube with any of these subjects I imagine you’ve seen it.
Like if I’m looking for an explanation on Colombs Law, I want a guy that sounds like ElectroBoom. If I need to know about Discrete Finite Automata, Ill click the first guy with a turban. If I want to know about the poincare conjecture, Im looking for snaggletooths. If I want the latest from James web, I’m looking for a ponytail or Sabine.
🤷♂️
I feel like even SEO acknowledges this prejudice.
But the god of all electricians is Iranian
The rest I can’t argue with at all though
Iranians and Slavs are both Indo-European, which is almost what I wrote. And literally after googling ElectroBoom’s accent/nationality
Well it has to do with culture/educational systems.
For example in Japan they still teach the abacus(soroban) as they see it helps visualise calculations which makes mental mathematics easier.
On the flip side Japan barely teaches spoken english and focuses mostly on written tests. So the typical japanese person can read/write english but can barely form an english sentence when speaking.
That sounds like an American pop culture and entertainment characters check list.
I feel called out by the electrical engineering part, I did tinker with electrical stuff ever since I was a kid and know a ton of shit about it >!(Also explains why I suck at programming but that’s not the point)!<
Don’t discount Scandinavians here
Yeah, Aussies too. I should change that to “white dudes aged 25 to 35”