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To: longnshort who wrote (319404)	1/8/2007 5:37:16 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1578501

Trust and diversity "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 cooperation in communities -- was so explosive that for the last half decade he hadn't dared announce it. ... "Lloyd noted, 'Professor Putnam found trust was lowest in Los Angeles, "the most diverse human habitation in human history.' " ... "[W]hat primarily drove down L.A.'s rating in Putnam's 130-question survey were the high levels of distrust displayed by Hispanics. While no more than 12 percent of L.A.'s whites said they trusted other races 'only a little or not at all,' 37 percent of L.A.'s Latinos distrusted whites. And whites were the most reliable in Hispanic eyes. Forty percent of Latinos doubted Asians, 43 percent distrusted other Hispanics and 54 percent were anxious about blacks. ... "Because policy-makers almost certainly won't do what it would take to alleviate the harms caused by diversity -- indeed, they won't even talk honestly about what would have to be done -- it's crazy to exacerbate the problem through more mass immigration." -- Steve Sailer, writing on "Fragmented Future," in the Jan. 15 issue of the American Conservative What exactly does this mean to you? Al