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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @03:26AM
Be honest, have you ever lived in a black-majority area in the United States, especially one within one of the major cities? Have you lived with the constant threat of deadly violence? Have you lived with used needles scattered all over the place? Have you ever lived in a place where your vehicle is vandalized on a weekly basis, and your home is broken into monthly?
It's easy to cry "Racism!" or "Intolerance!" when living in the rather peaceful and safe white suburban America. It's different when you're actually subjected to the sorts of places where whites are the minority.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @03:35AM
I'm the OP.
I'm white.
I grew up in a white-minority neighborhood, in a white-minority city.
I went to a white-minority school.
So I know a thing or two about what it means to be a minority.
And the non-white guys who had the same attitude as you were the worst kind of pricks I had to deal with.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @03:44AM
Have you lived with the constant threat of deadly violence? Have you lived with used needles scattered all over the place? Have you ever lived in a place where your vehicle is vandalized on a weekly basis, and your home is broken into monthly?
Hey! I had all that living in a majority caucasian place! Wow, the fights, the assaults, the litter, the vandalism, the entire economy based on illegal substances and crime! Ah, good times! Of course it could have been because of race. Or the fact that they were almost all rednecks. Or that fact that they _were_ (confessedly) all Christians. But probably it is because the majority was poor. Hey! Guess what! The Majority of America is already poor! Yeah! We win! Go, 99%!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:06AM
I lived in southern Collinsville, IL, for about a year a long time ago before I had a big boy job. I was in the only building not Section 8 housing within walking distance of that road. I think my roommate and I were the only white guys there, but the rent was enough to make payments and still afford to buy relatively good food/booze on minimum wage. I can't say what the crime rate was, but as the only white guys in a part of a neighborhood that was virtually all black, I was never hassled, even on late night walks up to the gas station to get more to drink.
It's not a major city, but it was a heavily destitute black majority neighborhood. I don't know what point I'm trying to prove by typing this, only offering my anecdote as being at least hopefully interesting.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 1) by tftp on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:47AM
I don't know what point I'm trying to prove by typing this, only offering my anecdote as being at least hopefully interesting.
You are proving that skin color does not make a man criminal. There are many monoethnic countries on this Earth, and they all have criminals. What makes a difference here is culture, or lack of it. Culture varies among social groups. If those groups have a visible marker, then don't be surprised that people are wary of them. Ten blonde Swedes, carrying photo cameras in Times Square, send a completely different message than ten dark-skinned teenagers with pants half-way down, milling around 7-11 in bad part of the town. But if you see ten dark-skinned teenagers in expensive, stylish clothing, with cameras, in Times Square, you will not think that they are gang members. You'd think they are tourists from Africa. Humans are pretty good at making such determination - it directly affects the lifespan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @07:57AM
Its always good when someone comes out as endorsing racism.
Removes all doubt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @12:28PM
I don't think he's "endorsing racism". I think he's just pointing out the realities that many people here like to pretend don't exist, when they very well do. And then these people, such as yourself, who are perhaps too damn scared to admit the existence of these realities, start on with your "racism" this and "racist" that labeling instead of facing reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:23PM
> I think he's just pointing out the realities that many people here like to pretend don't exist
Cherry-picking so-called realities is racism.
You'll note that his examples did not include ten blonde white-trash teenagers milling around 7-11 in a bad part of town.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday October 05 2014, @10:17PM
And then these people, such as yourself, who are perhaps too damn scared to admit the existence of these realities, start on with your "racism" this and "racist" that labeling instead of facing reality.
Scared? Boo! No, this is not reality, it is your reality, which happens to be racist. This is really the problem with racists, they are too unaware of their own prejudice that it seems like reality to them, when in fact it is just racism. So while it may seem to you that people are unfairly labeling you as "racist this" and "racist that", be assured that this is only because you are in fact a racist. Denying it any further will not help you, it will just be further proof you are in fact a racist, and more importantly, a not too bright racist since you can't see the wisdom in hiding the fact that you are a racist. You racist, you!
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday October 05 2014, @03:48PM
Yes. I've lived in a nearly 100% black area in a major us city. I've also spent a lot of time in a majority immigrant (muslim) area in a major European city as well (and I dont just mean by day - I usually lived there over the weekend.) And in addition, I live in an area that is almost 100% white (and poor) right now.
And you know what I learned? People are people. Poor people are poor people. Color of your skin has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Character of the household you were raised in has a lot more to do with it. Hopelessness leads to people doing bad stuff, no matter what color their skin.
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