It was my post you recall, Susan, but "mostly White" is a bit misleading way to put it. Culturally speaking, hockey in North America has historically drawn a lot of players from the White and the Native American populations...not many from Black or Asian or Hispanic populations.

Why? Because it started up in the White and Native American milieu, that's why, and the past tends to repeat itself. Kids tend to emulate the heroes from their own cultural community.

Thus a Black kid is much more likely to emulate a Black football player, basketball player, boxer, or baseball player than he is a Black hockey player, because very few professional hockey players have been Black in the past. That is slowly changing in places like Toronto where you now see kids of every race and culture going into hockey.

Likewise, a Hispanic child is more likely to emulate a Hispanic baseball or soccer player than a hockey player. I'm sure that's gradually changing too.

The most popular team sports in Cuba are baseball and soccer. Cubans are downright crazy about baseball. Accordingly, you will see a lot of good Cuban baseball players.

It's a cultural thing the way different communities gravitate to different sports, and it happens quite naturally, as a result of past cultural patterns...and the climate in any given area. The strongest hockey playing nations are naturally those with a northern climate. Those nations have also mostly been predominantly White nations in Europe and North America.