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U.S. life expectancy drops by 2.7 years for the colonizers, and 6.6 years for the indigenous population over two just two years.
(www.statnews.com)
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@yogthos@lemmy.ml This headline is factually incorrect. Only one demographic group, indigenous people, dropped by this much. The overall drop is 2.7, as you can see from the graph.
Fair, updated the title.
The title is still not correct. Nowhere in the article does it say what the life expectancy for colonizers is. Nowhere. What it does say is that the life expectancy average went down and that specific oppressed groups were heavily impacted. Again, there is nothing in this article saying that colonizer's life expectancy did anything.
The article states that the life expectancy for the indigenous population went down by 6.6 years. Other groups of people are the ones that colonized the land where indigenous population was displaced.
Hmm I think the point Slatlun is trying to make is that the average of 2.7 in the whole population could in fact be just the indigenous population life expectancy decrease.
For example, if 11 people's lifespan drops by 6 years and 12 other people's lifespan doesn't drop at all, the average of the 23 people's lifespan drop is a 2.75 years.
This part gives us some understanding that other groups are different but the article leaves out white people.
Anyway I went and read the actual study and this graph gives a firm breakdown:
Asian and White lose 2 and 2.5 years while everyone else loses 4years+
yeah that's a good observation
Yes, thank you.
Thanks.