Iconoclastic and absolutely 180 degrees from politically correct view of multiculturalism, is the best summary of this article.
To: shrinkermd
very similar to Arthur C. Brooks experience when he set out to research differences in charitable giving between conservatives and liberals, but he was honest enough to change.
2 posted on
01/06/2007 7:25:21 AM PST by
gusopol3
To: shrinkermd
Poor Putnam...Schadenfreude!
To: shrinkermd
Long read. Bump to finish later.
4 posted on
01/06/2007 7:27:17 AM PST by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: shrinkermd
As long as he makes the distinction between cultural diversity and people group (racial) diversity.
6 posted on
01/06/2007 7:28:51 AM PST by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( WND, NewsMax, Townhall.com, and Drudge Report are not valid news sources.)
To: shrinkermd
Very interesting, eye-opening article. Wow!
To: shrinkermd
Good article, if somewhat flabby (too long and broad).
We do need to get back to where we were, if we are to survive as a nation. Unfortunately we're unlikely to get there without a strong authoritarian government taking drastic measures, and that's never going to happen.
I am reminded of the story of Lot, who rather than commit inhospitality, offered the savages his virgin daughters to spare his guests.
But our guests are not angels...
To: shrinkermd
My mother (bless her soul) had it figured out decades and expressed it in very few words,
"Birds Of A Feather, Flock Together."All living things will segregate along any discernable line.
12 posted on
01/06/2007 7:59:01 AM PST by
blam
To: shrinkermd
If you take a drive through a "diverse" community in my town it is pathetic. Security screens and bars on all the windows, big dogs in the yards.
I'd definitely call that a "lack of trust".
13 posted on
01/06/2007 8:12:07 AM PST by
sheana
To: shrinkermd
I know one thing, after being born and raised in Illinois and moving to North Carolina, the difference in race relations I saw down here was astounding. The south has much..much better race relations than the north but guys like Putnam would never study why because they are clueless about the real world.
15 posted on
01/06/2007 8:15:34 AM PST by
bkepley
To: shrinkermd
"Diversity" being the opposite of "commonality", cultural diversity reduces "community" to a geographic designation.
16 posted on
01/06/2007 8:16:03 AM PST by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: shrinkermd
18 posted on
01/06/2007 8:33:48 AM PST by
frithguild
(The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
To: shrinkermd
Multiculturalism is nothing more than Divide and Conquer.
19 posted on
01/06/2007 8:57:25 AM PST by
Hornet19
(Be Politically Erect.)
To: shrinkermd
"...that his latest research discoverythat ethnic diversity decreases trust and co-operation in communitieswas so explosive that for the last half decade he hadnt dared announce it..."You can't handle the truth!
21 posted on
01/06/2007 9:21:50 AM PST by
Jabba the Nutt
(Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
To: shrinkermd
Multiculturalism is shattering communities across the US by craeting physical and social borders and alienating the sense of "one people" we once shared as a nation. It is renewing many old tribal and race-based feuds that are only simmering below the surface.
Politicians have supported multiculturalism and they are writing the doom of America by not acknowledging us as one people, but a collection of hyphenated Americans.
23 posted on
01/06/2007 9:36:23 AM PST by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: shrinkermd
This rang a bell with me. When I was stationed in Southeast Asia in '62 I noted the high degree of nepotism in both the Thai and South Vietnamese governemntns. I finally realized it was a matter of trust. You could trust members of your family because they were in the same boat with you. In the event of a coup or rebellion, they'd be punished whether or not they supported you, so they might as well support you. But you couldn't trust anyone else.
24 posted on
01/06/2007 10:43:27 AM PST by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: shrinkermd
It depends on which cultures are mixing. I find that certain culture work well together, others do not. Think of LA LA Land's gang wars.
28 posted on
01/06/2007 11:45:07 AM PST by
Porterville
(Destroy the Death Culture of Socialism)
To: shrinkermd
The lesson learned here is that rose-colored glasses are still a poor way to see what's in front of your very eyes.
31 posted on
01/06/2007 12:57:12 PM PST by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: shrinkermd
33 posted on
01/07/2007 2:06:35 AM PST by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: shrinkermd
Harvard study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity Harvard finally learns what the rest of America has known for 45 years!
34 posted on
01/07/2007 2:26:37 AM PST by
Cowboy Bob
(Liberalism in a parasite that ALWAYS kills its host.)
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