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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @10:34AM
This thread is not about whether all Abrahamic faiths are intrinsically violent, nor about whether all religions are toxic to secular society. This thread is about the claim that there is only one religion, Islam, that specifically and unequivocally demands that non-believers be converted or killed. That claim is not true.
There surely are Islamic cults that latch on to particular verses of the Quran and follow them manically, but that same phenomenon gives the Christians Jonestown and the 1996 Olympics bomber. Christians, as a group, seem to have worked themselves around to disclaiming their more radical and extremist factions over the past 50 or so years, but it's been much easier for them to see and communicate the abuses in the name of their faith than relatively isolated Muslims. Maybe that's something the Christians should thank Martin Luther for: the notion that there can be many disparate forms of Christianity, so each sect can distance itself from offensive practices of Christianity, where we still seem to think all Muslims are either Sunni or Shia and "all the same."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:49PM
I wouldn't put it on Martin Luther - Islam has more religious diversity than christianity, its just the western eye that barely even notices shia and sunni much less alawites, qutbists, whabbis, sufis, and thousands of others that I can't think of off the top of my head. I'd give much more credit to the magna carta for its part in reducing dictatorship. Religion is a favorite tool of despots, the saudi royal family just love to promote the salafis because it simultaneously gives them cover to be casually brutal to their own subjects and to distract from their own failings -- that political rabble rouser is blaspheming, kill them! (and ignore what they had to say about government).