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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, @04:34AM
The problem you have, as it always is with people who can only see what's right in front of them, is confusing the uniform with the person.
You see the uniform of a particular group and think it means that the people who wear that uniform aren't actually people, that they are something less human than yourself. You cite jainism's non-violence as proof that extremism isn't a problem without realizing that people prone to violence simply self-select out of jainism. Unless you believe that every person is capable of living as a jain, your example is simply yet another case of confusing the uniform for the person.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by keplr on Sunday October 05 2014, @04:59AM
people prone to violence simply self-select out of jainism
The biggest predictor of someone's religion is the religion of their parents. It's passed on the same way language is. There's some conversion, but in general, religion grows from childhood indoctrination. We are highly social animals. If you grow up in a culture or under a religion that promotes violence and hatred of others, you are likely to exhibit those traits more often than someone in a different culture.
And again, a violent Jain simply couldn't justify their violence using their religion. He'd either admit he was acting inconsistent with his religion, or he'd be too delusional to notice--which is to say, too delusional to be considered sane.
I don't respond to ACs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:04AM
> The biggest predictor of someone's religion is the religion of their parents.
You seem to be arguing that it is entirely possible for all people to be jains.
I have no response to that.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tftp on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:31AM
You seem to be arguing that it is entirely possible for all people to be jains. I have no response to that.
I will not intentionally step on a spider unless I have a problem with it. At the same time I do some varmint hunting to help ranchers keep their pastures relatively safe for cattle. Does it break the template?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @07:54AM
No it does not.
I'm sure that inside your head it is incredibly meaningful.
But for the rest of us who don't live in paranoid town it literally means nothing at all.