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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) by tftp on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:17AM
the only religious conflict i know of in the US is small groups of fundamentalist christian extremists trying to force their views on everyone and turn the US into a theocracy.
You are too late with that warning. In US elections candidates who declare themselves atheists have far fewer chances to win. Even Obama, who, I suspect, doesn't care about religion, had to declare himself a believer. It would be far more honest to say that he can't care less about the invisible man in the sky. In schools, reportedly, students are required to say words (allegiance pledge) that contain references to a deity. (Which one? There are many to choose from.)
You can say that religious people are exerting some pressure onto the society. But outside of those examples their pressure is largely harmless. It causes no conflicts, as long as you don't confront people in the hall and don't try to dispute their beliefs. People are free to believe, after all. What they ought not be free to do is to force others into their belief. There is only one religion in the world that gives conquered people the choice between converting or dying. Is that FUD as well? Quite a few Syrians could say that it is not; but they are dead now. Don't you think that any civilized person, of any religion or of no religion, should have some reservations about embracing the religion that approves mass murder of unbelievers? Note that these atrocities have not resulted in any rebuke from Islamic leaders, nor the killers have been ejected from the ranks of believers. Those are facts, not feelings. I don't believe in gods of any sort; however no honest person should "tolerate" a group that professes mass murder and proceeds to do just that. Tolerance of evil == evil.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:43AM
yes. despots are despots no matter what religion they claim to follow. your FUD claim that islam is a violent, oppressive religion is easily countered by countries such as turkey. there will always be people using whatever convenient excuse they can find to seize power and oppress people; the people are to blame, not the bullshit lies and excuses they use to justify their actions.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:54AM
your FUD claim that islam is a violent, oppressive religion is easily countered by countries such as turkey
I worked with Turks for several years in mid-1990s (in construction business; did drawings for them.) You'd be amazed that most Turks are deeply secular. Nearly 100% of educated Turks are atheists. (Education is known to strip religion pretty quick.) The company imported a thousand workers (Kurds) to work on the site, and their Mullah (who was also imported) complained loudly that none of them want to come and listen to him :-)
If I were a construction worker, I'd certainly skip on Muslim religious duties, as the work day at an active construction site is often longer than 12 hours, and the last thing you want to do after the shift is to go and pray for an hour, to no benefit whatsoever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @08:18AM
> You'd be amazed that most Turks are deeply secular.
Man you only see what you want to see.