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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.
"... it has been estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. citizens can trace at least one of their ancestors to Ellis Island.
When Ellis Island opened, a great change was taking place in U.S. immigration. Fewer arrivals were coming from northern and western Europe – Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries – as more and more immigrants poured in from southern and eastern Europe.
Among this new generation were Jews escaping from political and economic oppression in czarist Russia and eastern Europe (some 484,000 arrived in 1910 alone) and Italians escaping poverty in their country. There were also Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks and Greeks, along with non-Europeans from Syria, Turkey and Armenia.
The reasons they left their homes in the Old World included war, drought, famine and religious persecution, and all had hopes for greater opportunity in the New World."
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And now there is a problem with diversity? Maybe their great great grandparent should have stayed in the 'other' country and then they wouldn't be having this problem. Or perhaps they could take a trip to that country; maybe some where along the way, they'd figure it out.
"... it has been estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. citizens can trace at least one of their ancestors to Ellis Island.
When Ellis Island opened, a great change was taking place in U.S. immigration. Fewer arrivals were coming from northern and western Europe – Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries – as more and more immigrants poured in from southern and eastern Europe.
Among this new generation were Jews escaping from political and economic oppression in czarist Russia and eastern Europe (some 484,000 arrived in 1910 alone) and Italians escaping poverty in their country. There were also Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks and Greeks, along with non-Europeans from Syria, Turkey and Armenia.
The reasons they left their homes in the Old World included war, drought, famine and religious persecution, and all had hopes for greater opportunity in the New World."
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And now there is a problem with diversity? Maybe their great great grandparent should have stayed in the 'other' country and then they wouldn't be having this problem. Or perhaps they could take a trip to that country; maybe some where along the way, they'd figure it out.
They’re mad because I can’t turn popcorn back into a kernel..
SAME thing they said with the Italian, Irish, Russian, Jewish and all the other immigrant groups that came before.
Same complaints, different groups.
Nope. Not one person said that because the term "multiculturalism", actually the entire ridiculous concept, did not even exist until the mid 20th century. Nobody in 1900 was pretending that nations were stronger for being divided into ethnic enclaves.
Lebanon is a multi-religious state and was in harmony before foreign interference. The cause of the conflict was not multiculturalism. That the same story as Syria as foreign interference destroyed that country even though it was a very diverse society.
Singapore is a highly advanced developed country and a model multicultural society. How do you explain Singapore with homogeneous Somalia?
Lebanon is a multi-religious state and was in harmony before foreign interference. The cause of the conflict was not multiculturalism. That the same story as Syria as foreign interference destroyed that country even though it was a very diverse society.
Singapore is a highly advanced developed country and a model multicultural society. How do you explain Singapore with homogeneous Somalia?
Singapore is advanced and developed because the majority of Singaporeans are descended from the productive Chinese who immigrated there. It also benefited from British rule and good leadership from Lee Kuan Yew in the post colonial era.
Singapore is advanced and developed because the majority of Singaporeans are descended from the productive Chinese who immigrated there. It also benefited from British rule and good leadership from Lee Kuan Yew in the post colonial era.
Well, there are significant minorities in Singapore and there are no racial riots or tensions that exist there. Plus they have a large Muslim minority and have a similar percentage of Muslims living there as places such as London, yet but no major terrorist threat. Plus they don't have racially segregated neighborhoods, and it is illegal there. A majority of housing in Singapore is public and every public housing apartment block has to have a mixture of different ethnic groups. https://www.historycampus.org/2016/c...ticulturalism/
However, there are American cities that are still very much racially segregated and have ethnic ghettos.
The West can learn from the success of multiculturalism in Singapore.
Nope. Not one person said that because the term "multiculturalism", actually the entire ridiculous concept, did not even exist until the mid 20th century. Nobody in 1900 was pretending that nations were stronger for being divided into ethnic enclaves.
I have no idea what a "ethnic enclave is." My neighborhood which is only 131 houses, has black, white, Asian, Hispanic and Polynesian. We're gated. Are WE the enclave?!!!
Is Chinatown (anywhere USA) an enclave?
Of what do you speak?
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