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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 Grishnakh on Sunday October 05 2014, @05:30PM
It hasn't gotten any better in a lot of places; there's still wacko conservatives running around talking about the "gay agenda", how [insert person/organization/government] is trying to "turn people gay", etc. If anything, the conservatives are even nuttier about gay stuff now than they were 20 years ago, however the number of conservatives that are wacky about gayness this way is smaller than before and likely shrinking. I imagine one thing that's changed things a lot is that gay people are part of us: with homosexuality coming out more and more, more and more gay people have gotten the courage to "come out" to their relatives, meaning these conservatives have had to deal with their kids or siblings or other relatives coming out as gay, instead of continuing to hide in the closet or try to live as a hetero. It's different than an issue which is a different group of people, such as immigrants; immigrants are not "us", they're not part of your group (well, they're human, but ISIL is composed of humans too but I don't feel any kinship with those bastards), not the same way your own child or other relative or long-time friend you grew up with is. Heck, look at Dick Cheney; he became gay-tolerant because his own daughter came out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 05 2014, @08:57PM
I think the Dick Cheney situation was a factor; almost everyone noticed that Cheney was hard right on every issue in both foreign and domestic policy but one, and he just happened to have a gay daughter who was outspoken about her sexuality.
Also, a lot of famous people have come out in the last 20 years, and for the most part it didn't hurt their careers.
Many people have at least one gay relative. To blame that on moral deficiency seems to be an outmoded way of thinking.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday October 06 2014, @08:54AM
> If anything, the conservatives are even nuttier about gay stuff now than they were 20 years ago, however the number ... is smaller than before and likely shrinking.
Clearly there is some kind of natural law at work here - like the Conservation of Ninjitsu [tvtropes.org]