Study Finds Ethnic Diversity Bad for Social Cohesion
by Virginia Hale New research from Gothenburg University on solidarity in Sweden backs up evidence from previous studies that ethnic diversity is bad for social cohesion. Surveying 9,800 randomly selected people, the university’s SOM Institute looked at the degree to which people in Sweden are able to feel a connection with people who differ from themselves. Researchers found that, outside of their own group, respondents are most inclined to feel an affinity with people whose education vastly differs from their own. “Most also feel a relatively large affinity with those who have very different political views, a different sexual...
by Virginia Hale New research from Gothenburg University on solidarity in Sweden backs up evidence from previous studies that ethnic diversity is bad for social cohesion. Surveying 9,800 randomly selected people, the university’s SOM Institute looked at the degree...
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