World Cup fans in the stands are still mainly white and wealthy

World Cup fans

July 2 – A poll has found that the majority of fans attending the 2014 world cup games are white and wealthy. This might be surprising, seeing as Brazil is a racially diverse nation and has a higher population of blacks than all nations in the world excepting Nigeria, yet probably isn’t since we are used to this demographic being over represented at the world cup due to the costs of tickets, travel and accommodation.

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