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Northwestern University researchers found that minority youths, 8 to 18, are more likely to spend up to 2 hours more per day watching TV, one hour more per day listening to music, 90 minutes more per day using a computer, and up to 40 minutes more per day playing video games than do their white counterparts. More findings:
* Asian youth are especially drawn to computers, spending nearly three hours a day (2:53) in recreational computer use (the figure is 1:17 for White youth, 1:24 for Blacks, and 1:49 for Hispanics). They have more computers in the home than other young people do.
* Asian and Hispanic youth are particularly avid social networkers. For example, Asian 8- to 18-year-olds spend an average of :33 and Hispanics :29 a day on social networks, compared with :21 among Black youth and :19 among Whites.
* Reading print is the only medium without statistically significant differences by race or ethnicity. Across all groups, young people read for pleasure for an average of about 30 to 40 minutes a day.
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