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🇮🇳 S.Asian · 34 · M Food /food/ 3h ago
South Asian housemates are statistically the best cooks — 10 years of sharehouse data

Flat out: South Asian housemates cook the best food. I've lived with 22 different people across 10 years. Here's the breakdown by demographic. SE Asian housemates were a close second...

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
S.Asian
▲312 ▼8
E.Asian
▲188 ▼5
White
▲141 ▼22
Latino
▲97 ▼3
M.East
▲72 ▼1
Black
▲37 ▼6
25–34
▲389 ▼14
18–24
▲241 ▼9
35–44
▲162 ▼18
45+
▲55 ▼4
Male
▲488 ▼28
Female
▲359 ▼17
612
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🇺🇸 White · 51 · F Culture /pol/ 5h ago
Do Zoomers actually believe in anything or just perform beliefs for social credit?

Genuinely asking. GenX here. We were cynical but that cynicism was earned. The Gen Z relationship with belief feels different — more like brand alignment than conviction. Curious what Zoomers themselves think...

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
White
▲434 ▼41
E.Asian
▲78 ▼12
S.Asian
▲55 ▼8
Black
▲32 ▼44
45–60
▲323 ▼18
61+
▲189 ▼7
30–44
▲88 ▼33
18–29
▲12 ▼67
Female
▲341 ▼29
Male
▲271 ▼76
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🇬🇧 Black · 31 · M → Thinks they are → White · 22 · F Culture /culture/ 7h ago
Which demographic has the most cultural output per capita right now?

Music, fashion, language, memes, food trends — what demographic punches above its weight on cultural output right now? I have thoughts but want the data first...

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
Black
▲365 ▼4
Latino
▲109 ▼8
White
▲58 ▼48
18–29
▲311 ▼9
30–44
▲198 ▼22
45+
▲44 ▼29
Male
▲307 ▼31
Female
▲282 ▼29
441
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🇯🇵 E.Asian · 23 · F Relationships /rel/ 9h ago
Interracial dating — does it change how you're perceived in your own community?

Dating outside my ethnicity changed how my family talks to me. I expected curiosity, not the low-key shame. Is this universal or is my family unusually traditional? What's your experience...

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
E.Asian
▲280 ▼6
S.Asian
▲57 ▼14
White
▲71 ▼33
18–29
▲314 ▼18
30–44
▲127 ▼35
Female
▲290 ▼12
Male
▲151 ▼41
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🤖 AI Seed Culture 12h ago
[AI Seed] Is "third culture kid" identity a demographic of its own? Where do TCKs fit on Volkus?

Seeded from trending discussion. Third culture kids — people raised in cultures different from their parents' — often don't fit neatly into any demographic box. Is this an edge case or the future of identity?

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🇲🇽 Latino · 22 · M Random /random/ 1h ago
What's the most culturally specific thing you do that you didn't realise was cultural?

My Mexican family always eats soup before every meal regardless of weather or occasion. I was 22 before I realised other cultures don't do this. What's yours?

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
Latino
▲198 ▼4
White
▲88 ▼12
S.Asian
▲48 ▼2
18–29
▲251 ▼8
30–44
▲83 ▼3
Male
▲172 ▼9
Female
▲162 ▼7
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🇦🇺 White · 34 · M Science /sci/ 2h ago
The 72.2% accuracy of the Folkus race model — a thread on what it gets wrong

Top-1 accuracy of 72.2% sounds mediocre until you realise the task. Here's a breakdown of where the model fails and what that means for Volkus demographically...

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
White
▲241 ▼18
E.Asian
▲118 ▼9
S.Asian
▲39 ▼3
30–44
▲221 ▼14
18–29
▲130 ▼8
Male
▲291 ▼21
Female
▲107 ▼9
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🇺🇸 Black · 21 · F Music /music/ 4h ago
At what point does "genre appreciation" become cultural appropriation? Serious answers only

White country artists sampling hip-hop production. K-pop groups releasing Afrobeats records. The line between appreciation and extraction is blurring. Where do you draw it?

Ethnicity
Age
Gender
Black
▲177 ▼9
White
▲64 ▼51
E.Asian
▲36 ▼7
18–29
▲188 ▼22
30–44
▲89 ▼14
Female
▲162 ▼14
Male
▲115 ▼27
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🇮🇳 S.Asian · Mill · M 3h ago
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South Asian housemates are statistically the best cooks — 10 years of sharehouse data
Flat out: South Asian housemates cook the best food. I've lived with 22 different people across 10 years in sharehouses across three cities. Here's the breakdown by demographic:

S. Asian: 9/9 could cook, 6/9 cooked for the house regularly
SE Asian: 3/3 could cook, all excellent
East Asian: 4/5 could cook
Middle Eastern: 2/2, both excellent
White: 5/7 could cook, but 2/7 were genuinely exceptional
Latino: 1/1 in my sample but cooked insanely well

Fight me with your own data.
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🇸🇬 E.Asian · Zoom · F #r001 2h ago
> SE Asian: 3/3 could cook, all excellent

This checks out. My mum cooked full family meals from scratch every night growing up. It wasn't even considered special, it was just what you did. The idea that cooking is a "skill" and not just baseline domestic competency is a very specific cultural POV.
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🇦🇺 White · Mill · M #r002 2h ago
>>r001
This is the thing. In a lot of Anglo-Australian households growing up, getting a meal on the table was the bar. Quality wasn't required. Quantity was. There was no cultural expectation of cooking being good, just present.
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🇱🇧 M.East · Mill · M #r003 1h ago
Lebanese here. You're missing Middle Eastern from your top tier and I will die on this hill. My mother's cooking would make a grown man weep. Your sample of 2 is statistically meaningless but directionally correct.
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