The American Conservative
"Fragmented Future" by
Steve Sailer, Jan 15, 2007
Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones.
- In the presence of [ethnic] diversity, we hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us.—Harvard professor Robert D. Putnam
It was one of the more irony-laden incidents in the history of celebrity social scientists. While in Sweden to receive a $50,000 academic prize as political science professor of the year, Harvard’s Robert D. Putnam, a former Carter administration official who made his reputation writing about the decline of social trust in America in his bestseller
Bowling Alone, confessed to Financial Times columnist John Lloyd that his latest research discovery—that ethnic diversity decreases trust and co-operation in communities—was so explosive that for the last half decade he hadn’t dared announce it.
Fragmented Future - The American Conservative
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It is always daring to dispute the lies and delusions of the Woke Theology. Those who claim "Diversity is our strength" cannot point to any tangible benefits.
Now, as I happens I like diversity, but only with minorities I admire. During the early 1980's I lived in the downtown of a city that was engulfed by Vietnamese war refugees. Most were very poor. They were also good people. They took any job they could find and obeyed the law. Vietnamese teenagers did not spend their days harassing their teachers. They respected their teachers, even though many had problems with English. Vietnamese teenagers did not spend their nights getting into trouble. They did their home work.
Vietnamese teenagers had spent their lives in war zones and refugee camps. They had every alibi for the dysfunctional behavior we are expected to forgive in teenagers of another color. Vietnamese teenagers did not need alibis.
I enjoyed shopping at Vietnamese stores, dining in Vietnamese restaurants, and I dated a Vietnamese woman.
I would often get off work at 10:00 pm, and walk three miles through what was becoming "Little Saigon" to get home. I would risk my life walking through a neighborhood inhabited by people of (another) color that late. Jesse Jackson agrees with me.
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