Living In 'ethnically Diverse' Areas Makes People More Tolerant

[Gromit]

This seems to confirm my own observation. I have noticed that people who seemed most threatened by immigrants tend to live in areas with the least number of them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2572281/Living-ethnically-diverse-areas-makes-people-tolerant.html

[sandyRoe]

That seems common sense. Once you get to know people you see they're not the bogeymen that they might be painted.

[New Judge]

Or it could be, perhaps, that people living in such areas very often have no choice. They have to be "tolerant". But it does not necessarily mean they like it.

[Old_Geezer]

Also they do not see the "norm" they grew up to appreciate, change before their eyes. An influx of immigrants where there is not already diversity, speaking in a foreign tongue, will make folk feel they are the stranger in their own local area; which will make many feel uncomfortable. But the real issue ought not be that anyway, the real issue is we are full, we have insufficient jobs for those already here, not to mention insufficient homes and other facilities. Immigration is not a plus, regardless of what small benefits one might find.

[anotheoldgit]

A Daily Mail report confirms Gromit's observations!!!!!!! now there is a first, he generally criticises that paper for producing "Non Stories" or of telling lies.

Is Gromit now a converted Anti Daily Mail Brigade member, or only when they print something that fits his personal agenda?

[anotheoldgit]

/// A study found led by the University of Oxford found that white people develop ‘passive tolerance’ of minorities in mixed areas ///

These kind of surveys are always targeted at white people, perhaps some learned gent should conduct a survey amongst the ethnic minorities to see if they are so tolerant towards the whites?

[New Judge]

Or, even more so, just how tolerant they are to other ethnic minorities.

[China Doll]

I don't know if that's true. I have lived in, and continue to work in, central london and I know that I am not massively far away from Emmie and I think she and I would disagree greatly on this (in fact I think we have debated it in the past); I suspect Splat, jno and LazyGun of all not being a million miles from where I work though and I wonder if perhaps they would be more likely to have a similar perspective to me; I'm pretty sure I'm younger (and prettier!) than those three at least so I'm not sure quite why our perspectives might be similar; maybe to do with individual experiences I guess.

[youngmafbog]

//And now researchers believe people can be made less racist by simply moving to live in ethnically-mixed areas.//

Just wait for the next labour Government forcing us all to live in ethnically mixed areas in their next multi cultural experiment.

I reckon this is just a load of DM lies !!

[sp1814]

Saucer of milk for CD!

I think it's a two way street. Where I grew up (Camberwell), there was a mix of Asian Pakistani and Indian) white, black - and I remember people divided along sports lines, not race lines.

People have commented as to whether ethnic minorities equally feel more tolerant to whites when living amongst them.

Interesting question - but I suspect it may be moot in most cases...?

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

That would be difficult.

Very difficult indeed.

Most ethnic minority families live in urban areas - and unless you already own property in these areas, or have a sizeable deposit for a tiny flat, or are willing to stump up a ridiculous amount for rent, it's highly unlikely that we will be seeing a reversal of the 'white flight' to the inner cities.

...until the housing bubble bursts, that is.

[China Doll]

'Saucer of milk for CD!'

Tut.... I was going for light hearted and jovial... I'm still prettier than you I reckon! ;oP

Actually, Splat and I not disimilarl backgrounds really, I grew up for the first few years of my life on an estate he also lived on and then moved to south east london so was regularly around Peckham and Camberwell areas; I also had an honourary jamaican grandmother growing up so perhaps it's something about our experiences growing up and where we knocked around that form how tolerent we are as we grow up. (Both my parents are the liberal, yougurt knitting variety as well :c)

[sp1814]

divebuddy

I think you may be referring to extreme situations. The schools I went to had a very broad mix of children from different backgrounds.

But then again - its understandable that white parents may feel uneasy sending their child to (say) a 99% Asian school.

I don't think anyone has said that this behaviour is racist.

[jno]

I grew up abroad in a fairly multicultural environment when there was a lot of postwar population movement so I feel comfortable enough in outerish London where there are people from all over. I think about half the locals would be British born (not necesarily in London, though, it's still the focus of immigration from home and abroad.) Pakistanis run the chemist shop, Turks have the fish and chip shop, our neighbour's a Saudi, our friends round the corner are German, the computer repairman over the road is Bulgarian, and as long as everyone can speak English (which most people under 50 can), there's no big problem.

But as I am an immigrant myself, I don't suppose it's for me to tolerate them, it's the other way round.

[keyplus90]

I agree 100%.

[mikey4444]

Your experience is similar to mine Gromit. I go to Cornwall as much as I can, as I keep a caravan there. I have only ever seen one black man in the county, and he is a Council bin man in Penzance ! But the racism down there can be severe at times. Mind you, the Cornish think that Devonians are beyond the pale, and the sentiment is returned by the Devon.

There is a sign up in the Eden Project that says something like

" Its said that the Devil never crossed the Tamar into Cornwall, as he had heard that those Cornish housewives would put anything into a Pasty and he didn't want to take the chance"

[Booldawg]

There seems to be no cohesion or meshing between communities. Ethnically diverse tends to mean small pockets of various communities co-existing in the same geographic location but not really mixing; I don't see how this is enriching - its more divisive than anything.

There are still taboos amongst various ethnic groups marrying outside 'their own' On TV still the image of a mixed race marriage is usually a black guy with a white woman.

[emmie]

my experience of Cornish people, not the blow ins, is they tolerate you but not necessarily like.