Daniel Henninger wrote an interesting piece on the findings of Harvard Professor Robert Putnam's study on ethnic diversity. Here's a sample from the article and the link to read the piece in its entirety.
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His researchers did 30,000 interviews in 41 U.S. communities. Short version: People in ethnically diverse settings don't want to have much of anything to do with each other. "Social capital" erodes. Diversity has a downside.
The harvest of bitter fruit from the diversity wars begun three decades ago across campuses, corporations and newsrooms has made the immigration debate significantly worse. Diversity's advocates gave short shrift to assimilation, indeed arguing that assimilation into the American mainstream was oppressive and coercive. So they demoted assimilation and elevated "differences." Then they took the nation to court. Little wonder the immigration debate is riven with distrust.
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Very interesting.
http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110010477
this has been a joke for a long time... there is a big difference between what profs say and what joe 6-pack thinks.
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