- N. Le, in an old piece, which for some reason came up in my news feed, discussed the forbidden topic of whites becoming racial minorities in their once, homelands. This includes every white country in the world, including Europe, where whites originated. Le, presumably an Asian, thought that this demographic change was a positive thing, but then he read about the research of Harvard political science professor Robert Putnam, based on the results of a comprehensive survey of over 30,000 respondents around the US. “[Putnam's study] found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogeneous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.” There have been over the last decade many other papers confirming these results that the higher the diversity, the lower social capital and trust.
According to Le, it may not be race per se that produces lower levels of social capital and trust, but other variables, including the uncertain times, economic conditions, and whatever, that gets mediated by race. Take away those factors and people would live in racial harmony. It is a nice liberal dream, totally inconsistent with reality, as all those factors which Le wants to bracket out, constitute the human condition, and cannot be simply wished away. That is what liberals have been doing with the immigration experiment, and as to be covered by my colleagues in other articles, it is refuted by the ongoing events, such as the violent migrant riots of the New Year in Berlin. But liberals never want to admit they were fundamentally wrong.