A white man selling fruit and veg at a market stall on the street also won’t give you entrepreneurial advice.

But maybe we should also be getting entrepreneurial advice from white men (or Cambodian women) selling fruit and veg at a market stall? Maybe their advice is totally irrelevant for someone selling stuff online but maybe it isn’t. The thing is, I don’t know what advice people like that would give because we never hear it (unless we find someone like that and specifically ask them).

I’m not sure what you are reading to get your advice but maybe you need to expand your sources. 

I’m not saying we can’t find advice from other people. Of course we can. I’m saying it’s a hell of a lot easier to find advice from a very select group of people than from others.

And I’m also happy to read advice from white men, an Asian woman, French kid. It doesn’t matter. Restricting the advice I get based on people who look exactly like me is going to limit my chances and get me nowhere.

I agree! I wasn’t saying that people should only get advice from people who look like them.

But when was the last time you (or anyone else reading this) read something from a French kid, for instance? Or from a Cambodian woman? In contrast, how often do we all read advice from white, privileged, American men?

I’d wager the ratio is completely out of wack, even if we take into account that there are more Americans than Cambodians and that we’re more likely to read things from our culture (I’m a German living in the US and I would guess that Germans spend more time reading American authors than Americans spend reading any non-American ones). And that’s just the cultural piece and not taking into account the author’s gender, or social class, or skin color.