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To: Road Walker who wrote (347911)	8/22/2007 9:32:28 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) of 1574149

Divisive diversity "Robert Putnam, the Harvard don who in the controversial bestseller 'Bowling Alone' announced the decline of communal-mindedness amid the rise of home-alone couch potatoes, has completed a mammoth study of the effects of ethnic diversity on communities. His researchers did 30,000 interviews in 41 U.S. communities. Short version: People in ethnically diverse settings don't want to have much of anything to do with each other. 'Social capital' erodes. Diversity has a downside. ... "The harvest of bitter fruit from the diversity wars begun three decades ago across campuses, corporations and newsrooms has made the immigration debate significantly worse. Diversity's advocates gave short shrift to assimilation, indeed arguing that assimilation into the American mainstream was oppressive and coercive. So they demoted assimilation and elevated 'differences.' Then they took the nation to court. Little wonder the immigration debate is riven with distrust." — Daniel Henninger, writing on "The Death of Diversity," Thursday at OpinionJournal.com

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