Re: "Diversity" is our Destruction (Re: Tonight is the Premiere of "Latino Americans: Foreigners in their Own Land" in PBS)

[Veri Whyte]

Rudy Canoza <notg...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:iy%DK.61479$mY1....@fx01.iad:

> On 9/19/2013 7:53 AM, racist Raymond lied:
>> On 9/19/2013 9:27 AM, racist "denny", the drunken dissipated scion of
>> KKK night riders, lied:
>>> the fact is, diversity is here and now. It's just a matter of
>>> dealing withour situation, as it is.
>>
>> She has indeed arrived!!
>
> Diversity is not our "strength". It is nothing to "celebrate". What it
> is is a handicap - something that makes society less stable, reduces
> civic engagement, destroys trust, makes people shut themselves off.
>
>
> The downside of diversity
> A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life.
> What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?
>
> By Michael Jonas | August 5, 2007
>
> IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic
> diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to
> pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our
> differences make us stronger.
>
> But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000
> people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard
> political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his
> 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater
> the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they
> volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community
> projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another
> about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The
> study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that
> virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse
> settings.
>
> "The extent of the effect is shocking," says Scott Page, a University
> of Michigan political scientist.

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around and go back home.

Sooner or later the inhabitants will tire and take measures into their own
hands.