I wrote a 7000-word blog post about the alt-right, and their thesis that homogeneity is good for a society: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-siren-song-of-homogeneity.html …
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Interesting. But bear in mind, there's no ideologically neutral soc science research on diversity effects. It's all tainted by bias.
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Seems likely. Or rather, if some of it is untainted, it's hard to pick out just that stuff.
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geoffrey mentions the bias problem, which is...problematic. but i think the other overlooked issue is diff pops might be diff (on avg, etc).
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...some might handle living in a diverse society better than others. having strong universalistic tendencies is a good start, is my bet.
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Entirely indiscriminate concept of "diversity" as usual. You'd think people would see the comic irony in that.
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Well diversity is a big vague thing. So do we disaggregate? That'll reduce the number of relevant studies per diversity subtype.
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Of course disaggregate. (Unless you think the diversity issues of Singapore or Silicon Valley are the same as those of Malmö.)
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Well obviously I *don't*. That's why I say that the kind of diversity probably matters a lot.
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No less than the kind of homogeneity, most probably. I doubt that Somalia is any more diverse than Japan.
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Exactly. I don't have data comparing genetic homogeneity across countries, but this is what I'd assume. Maybe
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