I’ve pointed it out before, but the message never sinks in: The complaint that Academy Awards nominees are insufficiently “diverse” — by which critics mean that there aren’t enough African-American and Latino-American nominees — is based on an obvious error: using the demographics of the United States as a point of reference for a pool of nominees drawn from the world’s population. With that in mind (and noting that the author doesn’t know the difference between “compose” and “comprise”), this Dallas Morning News analysis is almost entirely meaningless.

Even if we choose to concentrate on the four prestigious acting categories, we are obliged to deal with the fact that the nominees come from lots of different countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, etc. (Charlotte Rampling is British-born but was raised mainly in Europe.) There is no reason to believe that such a (pardon me for noticing!) globally diverse group would reflect the particular diversity of the population of the United States.

“Oscars so white”? No, it’s that Oscar critics are so parochial.