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A lone white male. Sorry it wasn't totally clear.

For all intents and purposes, women count as minorities. Google has plenty of pictures with white women, and white men and women. But so far I have only found one picture with a lone white male (on one of the chromecast pages, on the TV was a show page, and the show page had a lone white male). I guess they can get 1/2 credit for that. Oh and I found a picture of a lone white guy, but he was disabled. So I guess that technically counts, although he would still fall into the "minority/disadvantaged" camp.

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https://about.google/stories/making-conversation-more-access...

Took about 2 minutes.

Nah, watch the video, he's Hispanic. (Of course racial classifications have no real meaning, but ime Hispanic people are generally - bar some Spaniards - 'typed' as non-white, comparable to Asians or Native Americans. And certainly a minority in US terms.)

ETA: He's also deaf, fwiw, with regard to the minority point.

ETA2: Hmm, I may be wrong about the exact details. It looks like he's a research scientist at Google, and, judging by the name, possibly Russian. But the same non-Caucasian non-''white'' point applies. (The Spanish voiceover and subtitles confused me - it's not his voice at the start, whereas his own 'deaf voice' makes any accent hard to identify.)

Pretty sure he's Ukrainian ("kanevsky" = "of Kaniv" [city in Ukraine]). Last I checked Ukrainians were considered white.

Hmm, I think we're coming up against the weirdness of racial categories here. I'd say Ukrainians - to much the same extent as Hispanics - aren't quite considered white in American terms (which has virtually zero to do with one's skin color). Or not Caucasian, at least. (Yes, despite the fact that they come literally from the Caucasus, while Americans don't.) But it's impossible to come to an exact agreement on these things.

That interesting diversion notwithstanding, I think his being deaf is probably what accounts for his inclusion, which is consistent with the spirit of what that person was saying.

Did you try just clicking through their main corporate website? I don't understand why you would make this claim without checking.

https://www.blog.google/press/ (filter for headshots)

https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises

https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/

https://about.google/stories/

https://grow.google/, https://grow.google/grow-your-career/, https://grow.google/grow-your-business/, https://grow.google/certificates/

https://learning.google/, https://learning.google/school/

https://www.android.com/enterprise/

https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellev...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474

This is just scratching the surface, I'm not gonna spend time clicking in to every blog post and article. Again, their target market is basically the entire world, and most people in the world (and the US) are not white men. So I would not expect the majority of pictures to be white men, and indeed they are not.

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