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Ethnic diversity seriously undermines the trust and social bonds within a community, according to important new research that casts a gloomy shadow over optimistic theories about the benefits of the social melting pot in immigrant societies such as Australia.[---]
[The] extensive research found that the more diverse a community, the less likely were its inhabitants to trust anyone, from their next-door neighbour to their local government.
People were even more wary of members of their own ethnic groups, as well as people from different backgrounds.
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Professor Putnam, who is now working in Britain, told the Financial Times that, after several years of research, he had held off publishing his results until he could develop suggestions that might help compensate for the negative effects of diversity, saying it "would have been irresponsible to publish without that".
His most important finding was that "in the presence of diversity, we hunker down".
"We act like turtles," he said. "The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined."
His research was conducted in the US but he believes its findings are likely to be mirrored in other countries.
It will be studied closely in Australia and most European countries, where governments are increasingly struggling with the political and social fallout of immigration and ethnic and religious diversity.
Professor Putnam found that trust was lowest in Los Angeles, "the most diverse human habitation in human history", but his findings also held for rural South Dakota, where "diversity means inviting Swedes to a Norwegians' picnic".
When the data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, they showed that the more people of different races lived in the same community, the greater the loss of trust. 1
Hur många sådana här rapporter behöver vi för att inse att friska samhällen bygger på kulturell enighet mellan människor? Mångfald har ingen riktning och måste övergå till våldsam tvångsintegration för att kunna införlivas i ett en gång homogent samhälle.
1 The Australian, "Ethnic diversity 'breeds mistrust'"
