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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, 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%!