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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: 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.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?