{"id":23225,"date":"2010-05-14T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23225"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:05:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:05:49","slug":"who-do-americans-prefer-not-to-have-as-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/14\/who-do-americans-prefer-not-to-have-as-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do Americans Prefer NOT to Have as Neighbors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/poq\/nfp022\">recent study by Chelsea Schafer and Greg Shaw<\/a> found that, as of 2006, over a quarter of Americans would still rather not live near homosexuals.\u00a0 This percentage has been decreasing, however; in 1990 and 1995, 38% and 30% of people, respectively, wanted to keep their distance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/14\/who-do-americans-prefer-not-to-have-as-neighbors\/social-intolerance\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23227\" title=\"social-intolerance\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/social-intolerance.png\" width=\"562\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/social-intolerance.png 709w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/social-intolerance-500x399.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But tolerance for Muslims and immigrants has not increased alongside tolerance for gays and lesbians.\u00a0 The data show that rather high levels of tolerance in the &#8217;90s (with about 90% of people being happy to have these groups as neighbors) disappeared and, by 2006, 22% of people did not want to live near Muslims and 19% did not want to live near immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The data on tolerance for Muslims is likely due to the way the attacks on September 11th, 2001, have been spun to stoke hatred against Muslims.\u00a0 What do you think about the increased intolerance for immigrants?\u00a0 Have &#8220;foreigners&#8221; been collateral damage in the smear campaign against Muslims and Arabs?\u00a0 If it were simply growing conservatism, wouldn&#8217;t we see the same pattern for homosexuals?\u00a0 Other explanations?<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/discoveries\/2010\/05\/05\/the-limits-of-tolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contexts Discoveries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by Chelsea Schafer and Greg Shaw found that, as of 2006, over a quarter of Americans would still rather not live near homosexuals.\u00a0 This percentage has been decreasing, however; in 1990 and 1995, 38% and 30% of people, respectively, wanted to keep their distance: But tolerance for Muslims and immigrants has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,8080,2125,693,285,1756,42,54,302],"class_list":["post-23225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-public-opinion","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-arabsmiddle-easterners","tag-religion","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60228,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions\/60228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}