If you could live in a country of like minded people, would you?

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And I don't mean that you would all be robots, but with common ideas about work, family, faith, economics, etc.

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-Social trust is negatively affected by ethnic diversity, case study in Denmark from 1979 to the present. Link.

– Ethnic homogeneity and Protestant traditions positively impact individual and societal levels of social trust. Link.

– “In longitudinal perspective, [across European regions], an increase in immigration is related to a decrease in social trust.” Link.

– Immigration undermines the moral imperative of those who most favor welfare benefits for the neediest. Link.

– The negative effect of community diversity on social cohesion is likely causal. Link.

– In Switzerland, social peace between diverse factions isn’t maintained by integrated coexistence, but rather by strong topographic and political borders that separate groups and allow them autonomy. Link.

– “Our analysis supports the hypothesis that violence between groups can be inhibited by both physical and political boundaries.” Link.

– Diversity hinders between-group cooperation at both the one-on-one and group levels. Link.

– The best chance for peace in Syria is better borders (intrastate or through the creation of new states) “suited to current geocultural regions”, and tribal autonomy. Link.

– Using data from US states, study finds a negative relationship between ethnic polarization and trust. Link. – Diversity is associated with more White support for nationalist parties, except at the local level where large immigrant populations cut into vote totals for nationalist parties. Link.

– In Australia, ethnic diversity lowers social cohesion and increases “hunkering”, providing support for Putnam’s thesis finding the same results in the US. Link.

– After controlling for a self-selection bias, study finds that ethnic diversity in English schools reduces trust in same-age people and does not make White British students more inclusive in their attitudes towards immigrants. Link.

– In Germany, residential diversity reduces natives’ trust in neighbors, while it also reduces immigrants’ trust but through a different pathway. Link.

– Increasing social pluralism (diversity) is correlated with increased chance of collective violence. Link. – “[E]thnic heterogeneity [diversity] explains 55% of the variation in the scale of ethnic conflicts, and the results of regression analysis disclose that the same relationship more or less applies to all 187 countries. … [E]thnic nepotism is the common cross-cultural background factor which supports the persistence of ethnic conflicts in the world as long as there are ethnically divided societies.” Link.

– Genetic Similarity Theory (GST) could help explain why diverse groups in close proximity increases ethnic conflict and ethnic nepotism. Link.

– Genetic diversity has contributed significantly to frequency of ethnic civil conflict, intensity of social unrest, growth of unshared policy preferences, and economic inequality over the last half-century. Link. – Using social science data and computer modeling, researchers found that policies that attempt to create neighborhoods that are both integrated and socially cohesive are “a lost cause”. Link.

– The numbers and the genetic distance matter. Minority groups that get above a certain critical mass, and that are culturally distant from the majority culture, begin to self-segregate from the majority, moving society toward division and away from cooperation. Link. – Using data from Copenhagen school registers, researchers found that native Danes opt out of public schools when the immigrant population concentration hits 35% or more. Link. – In the most liberal region in the US, San Francisco and surrounding suburbs, White parents are pulling their kids out of public schools that are becoming increasingly asian. Link.

– School integration (forced proximate Diversity) will not close race achievement gaps. Link. – Exclusionary dating is a natural consequence of racial diversity. Link. – As diversity increases, politics becomes more tribalistic. Link.

– Company diversity policies don’t help minorities or women, and they psychologically discriminate against White men. Link.

– Greater classroom and neighborhood diversity is linked to stronger tendencies to choose same-ethnic rather than cross-ethnic friends. Link.

– A longitudinal test of the impact of diversity finds that it makes existing residents feel unhappier and more socially isolated. Link. (alternate link)

– Internal dissension stoked by ethnic, social, political, and religious diversity, rather than environmental degradation, caused the collapse of the urbanized Cahokia Indian Tribe. Link.

– The volunteer participation rate in America hit a record low last year, declining 0.4% from the previous year, and has been declining since 2005. Not coincidentally, the racial composition of America has become more fragmented during the same time. Link.

– A sense of social cohesion with the people who live around us is as happiness-inducing as love for the place itself. Link.

– Our desire for ‘like-minded others’ is hard-wired. Link.

– “The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation” Recent agent-based computer simulations suggest that ethnocentrism, often thought to rely on complex social cognition and learning, may have arisen through biological evolution. From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and humanitarian) based on cooperation or non-cooperation with in-group and out-group agents. Here we show that ethnocentrism eventually overcomes its closest competitor, humanitarianism, by exploiting humanitarian cooperation across group boundaries as world population saturates. (Link)

– A wealthy Virginia county that is rapidly racially diversifying is getting poorer and less socially cohesive. Link.

– Gender diversity does not promote nonconformity in decision-making bodies. (But individual ability diversity does.) Link.

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"Diversity" is meant to weaken a society.

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Yes. Think of your life as concentric circles. On a personal level you marry someone like you and want your children to be like you. You strive to live in a neighborhood like you. Then, you try to live in a city like you. But the nation is out of your reach. If it was, you would want the nation to be like you.

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