I have noticed in life that people in minority groups seem to be more reluctant to question religion. I could be very off base, but it is a stereotype.
I have always assumed that being white gives me more freedom to go against the establishment with less social consequences.

I've always been confounded by the level of theistic belief among people of color.
I just don't understand why people, who have been habitually abused by white people, would adopt christianity and hold so tightly to it?

I've heard myriad excuses, but no real cogent explanations.

That said, there are a number of members who are not white.
I'm grateful for their presence.

As far as attracting a more diverse membership, I don't believe in trying to bring in more members.
I think people need to seek out where they want to be online, on their own.
I found the site through a facebook add.
I wouldn't have joined if someone else had tried to get me to.

Ielieve that there is a much lower percentage of agnostics and atheists in the Black community, and that there is a greater fear of being outed among those who are non-believers.

I suspect a lot of the imbalance is related to cultural differences. Unfortunately, in much of the world, open dissonance with respect to religion or belief is not allowed or peacefully accepted. I do hope the tide eventually turns toward greater diversity.

I don't even think of this situation because I don't tend to see people as different racial or ethnic groups. We are all just people. I might notice what country they are from. I often go about my life not noticing I'm any different, a minority, until someone points that out to me. I'm just some friggin' Canadian!!!

I'm wondering if in some ethnic communities/cultural groups, members don't feel as comfortable being open about being different, including announcing themselves as agnostic/atheist. If they join a site like this, they fear someone in their community might find out and they face strong repercussions. Some minority groups only have small communities in a multicultural immigrant based nation, and to lose what connection they have with other members may make life difficult for their members. They just don't want to take the risk. They remain low-key and under the radar.

I don't know. I'm just speculating. At least it's the case with those from my country of birth and similar. For me, I don't give the slightest "F"!!! I don't even know other people from my particular minority group (except my family and their friends) and I don't hang around with them. I don't care one bit if I "shame" them for choosing not to believe in some imaginary being.

"The door is open to everyone"? Lol! So we can stop thinking! Hey, everything is fine! If those ethnic minorities aren't here, it's probably because they are more superstitious!

Ok. But seriously.

The really important question to ask, in my opinion, isn't how do we attract more minorities into this site. I think the more important question, already asked by AmiSue, is "why is this."

It is important not because we are looking to blame anyone or any policies, but it will make us understand ourselves, and the world we live in, a bit more clearly.

I remember seeing the member pictures of a local county bar association taken in 1970's. They were almost exclusively white and male. I think I saw one black and one women. Imagine what your reaction will be if someone told you, when you questioned why that is, "what's the problem. The door is open to everyone."

Sure. Things have changed since then. But they only changed because people like AmiSue continued to ask questions.

So thank you, AmiSue.

Probably not. Your observations probably signal an area we need to work upon.

These are good questions. I see a few people of color on this site but don't see them often enough really. Some have come and left maybe. We should have diversity where race is concerned and have people from all over the world.

How about passing out Agnostic.com cards at church. Just hand them to the people you'd like to attract! Let them know that after only 50,000 points they will get a free shirt!

Go to Black Nonbelievers, Inc. [blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com] and introduce yourself to Mandisa Thomas. Mandisa is a great down to Earth person. If she knows about Agnostic.com she will get hundreds more minorities to join.

It is interesting because on the Facebook Atheist pages, there are many more non whites, from all over the world. Not sure why it is virtually all white here, you are right it does not make sense.

People from different cultures and ethnicities do different things - it's not about religion or whether we're doing enough to attract a more diverse group. My daughter married a man from Trinidad and his family doesn't blog - they actually leave the house and do sh-t. They're too busy to blog and too tired after doing their sh-t to get online. I have family/friends from a ton of different cultures and skin pigmentations and I don't know of a single one that blogs. I talk to as many as I can - as regularly as I can and the impression I get is they're so over it - they'll watch videos, perhaps a movie on Netflix online and may even listen to some songs - aside from that - they'll browse the net when thinking about making a purchase - but it's not to blog. Particularly not with people that already think like they do.

I see diversity. It's predominately white but a lot of folks aren't using their actual pictures for their profile pics and, the pics do not always represent their ethnicity. Once you get to know people you can see beyond their monikers, you will notice it's a colorful group.
I do, however, see your point. Check out the member map.----> [agnostic.com]

Yes mostly whites but still thee are people of color too, and great it is.

Most (not all) non white people I know are theists. [pewforum.org]

1. There is not many members outside US
2. In general atheism correlates with better education and life conditions, so if in US whites are majority in this conditions, atheists will be too
3. In many communities atheism is not well seen, so people just say they are religious but don't give a sh about it.
   In any case it's propaganda, just tell about the site to your non-white friends.

It's population density, distribution and statistics. Nothing more, nothing less

Would it help if Agnostic.com went multilingual? Native French speaker here.

Me: light skinned 100% Mexican. If that helps.

There are minority groups here. Several Spanish speaking groups. A couple of black or of African decent. But of course as we all know the African.American & Hispanic culture is heavily steeped in religion. Seek & ye shall find. They are not seeking an atheist "dating" site just yet.

Good question Ami. Are their statistics that show non-whites are more religious as a whole?

I think there are reasons why more men are agnostic than women in the us and why more whites are than blacks. If you looked at northern europe it would look different.

I get fairly tanned in the summer

I'm white but so were both of my parents so I consider it an accident of birth.

This is a good question to ask ourselves. I don't know the answer, but I wish I did.