Diversity may not be the answer - Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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In other words, the less diverse your community, the more likely you are to trust the people in it who are different from you. The flip side is also true: The more ethnically diverse the people you live around, the less you trust them
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. It turns out that in the most diverse places in the country, Americans tend to distrust everyone, those who do look like them and those who don't.
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it does suggest that simply celebrating it and promoting it is not going to help us get along.
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This article reveals the negative consequences of diversity. Areas that are more diverse tend to distruss other races more than the areas that are less diverse. Furthermore, areas with numerous different races tend to distruss everybody including there own race. Thus, celebrating diversity only increases segregation and helps widen racial gaps.