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White Americans may view diversity and multiculturalism more negatively as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation, UCLA psychologists report.
As part of their study, the researchers divided 98 white Americans from all regions of the country — half male, half female, with an average age of 37 — randomly into two groups. One group was told that whites will no longer be the majority in the U.S. by 2050; in fact, this is likely to be true as soon as 2043, according to some projections. The second group was told that whites would retain their majority status in the U.S. through at least 2050. All participants were then asked a series of questions about their views on diversity.
“Whites feel lukewarm about diversity when they are told that they are about to lose their majority status in the United States for the first time,” said Yuen Huo, UCLA professor of psychology and the study’s senior author.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/soon-to-become-a-minority-in-the-u-s-whites-express-declining-support-for-diversity-ucla-psychology-study-finds
[PAPER]: No Longer “All-American”? Whites’ Defensive Reactions to Their Numerical Decline:
http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/08/13/1948550614546355
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @01:44AM
yay for democracy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @03:42AM
If whites are so "horrible", then why do we see so many people with darker skin continually trying to move into white-majority communities?
We see it happening at the town and city level, especially in the United States. Many blacks do whatever they can to move into white suburbs, for example.
We see it happening between bordering nations. Just look at all of the Mexicans who try to illegally enter the United States each year.
We see it happening between nations separated by comparatively small bodies of water or moderate distances. Look at all of the North Africans who try to escape into Europe.
We see it happening between nations separated by oceans or thousands upon thousands of miles of land. All of the Indians, Pakistanis, and Africans who move to Australia, the United States, Canada and the UK are prime examples.
What it appears to come down to, even on a global scale, is that whites and east Asians consistently manage to build the best communities and societies. These are the ones where crime is lowest, where freedom is the greatest, where the economy is the strongest, where the health care system is the best, where education is widespread and accessible, where housing is the best, and where life in general is quite pleasant.
Yet for all of the accusations that are leveled at whites, their communities prove time and time again to be the most desirable places to live, and often the most accepting of non-whites.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Whoever on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:15AM
Is it perhaps because those communities have attributes that people of all races would like? Lower crime, more affluent, better schools, etc.. It has little to do with the racial makeup of the existing residents?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @12:23PM
Obviously those are attributes that people prefer. But like the GP asked later on in the comment, why is it that only whites have been able to create such communities?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @02:00PM
Because they steal them from the others, in the most non-discriminatory fashion for their victims. For example: think of Gold ManSacks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @11:57PM
America's superficially stable communities are fuelled by inequality, not white skin. It's pretty damn hard to establish stable communities with a foreign empire siphoning off your resources and destabilising your governments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @08:11AM
If whites are so "horrible", then why do we see so many people with darker skin continually trying to move into white-majority communities?
You see black people trying to move into poor white neighborhoods?
Really?
I don't see them doing that at all.
Which neighborhoods are these?
Because the people how have actually researched it found that equally poor white and black neighborhoods have essentially equally high rates of crime. [washington.edu] They also found that mixed neighborhoods had lower crime rates than all white neighborhoods of similar economic means.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @08:48PM
Yes, blacks move into poor white neighborhoods constantly.
Typical American neighborhoods, both urban and suburban, have followed a pretty consistent trend for many decades now. Relatively wealthy or middle class whites have initially built these communities. As the structures age, the wealthier of the whites move on to build new homes and buildings in other areas. The middle class Americans tend to follow shortly after. Poorer whites move in next. Due to the age of the structures, property values tend to drop over time. Eventually it becomes affordable enough for blacks to move into these white communities. This often involves an influx of gang activity, violence, substance abuse, and all of the other horrible stuff that we find in so-called "ghettos". The poor white people leave, because they don't want to put up with this. Now what was once a long-time white community has become a black community.
It doesn't matter what region of the US you're in, this pattern has held true in New York, Washington D.C., L.A., Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and even places like Seattle and Minneapolis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @10:10PM
And its not like there's any correlation between poverty and crime; its because of their skin color that they're criminals! You can tell everything about a man by looking at the color of his skin, right? And its up to us, the honorable white man, to enslave the negros for their own good, to force them to be civilized, though we must still be on constant watch, for the negro man has the tendency to fly into a rage and rape white women.