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Diversity and Social Cohesion
Diversity and immigration don’t hurt social cohesion (from Mouthy Infidel)
- Meer & Tolsma 14
- Enormous meta-analysis of 90 cross-sectional studies analyzing relationship between diversity & social cohesion.
- Vast majority of studies on the subject fail to prove the relationship between two variables.
- In fact, study finds positive relationships between inter-ethnic contact & trust in ethnically heterogeneous communities.
- Only contrary data shows small-scale (intra-neighborhood) trust suffers with ethnic heterogeneity in some circumstances, and even then only in America.
- Plurality of data does not support - and largely contradicts - assertion that diversity hurts social cohesion.
- Glaeser et al. 2k
- Study which tested around 200 students in a trust based experiment and compared results from diverse groups and homogenous groups .
- Finds no statistically significant negative relationship between diversity and social cohesion.
- Nai et al. 18
- Study examining a range of experiments meant to gauge the relationship between diversity and social cohesion.
- Study finds all of the experiments found a positive relationship between diversity and social cohesion.
- Proposed mechanism is that diversity causes people to identify more broadly with humanity, increasing sociability.
- Williamson 08
- Longitudinal study comparing the change in social cohesion over time in an area which experienced a large increase in diversity with a comparative control which didn’t.
- The two areas did not differ significantly in how their levels of social cohesion changed over time, suggesting the increased level of diversity had no statistically significant impact on social cohesion.
- Ziller 14
- Another longitudinal study analyzing changes in trust in 22 European countries between the years 2002 and 2010.
- Study suggests immigration often leads to decrease in social trust, but results were heavily affected by ethnic polarization & economic stability.
- With low polarization and a good economy, immigration was shown to actually increase social trust.
- Results suggest it isn’t the diversity of immigrants which lessens trust, but rather the economic and political context in which they arrive.