{"id":58187,"date":"2014-01-09T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=58187"},"modified":"2014-02-09T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:12:17","slug":"many-americans-overestimate-and-fear-racial-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/09\/many-americans-overestimate-and-fear-racial-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Americans Overestimate, Fear Racial Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

New survey data<\/a> shows that the average person overestimates the diversity of the American population, both now and in the future. \u00a0Today, for example, racial minorities make up 37% of the population, but the average guess was 49%.<\/p>\n

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Many Americans fear rising diversity. \u00a0Over half worry that more minorities means fewer jobs, nearly half think that it means more crime, and almost two-thirds think these groups strain social services. \u00a0If people think that minorities are bad for America and overestimate their prevalence, they may be more likely to support draconian and punishing policy designed to minimize their numbers or mitigate the consequences they are believed to bring.<\/p>\n

Not all Americans, of course, fear diversity equally. \u00a0Below are the scores of various groups on an “openness to diversity” measure with a range of 0-160.<\/p>\n

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For the future, Americans are still strongly divided as to what to do about diversity and the racialized inequality we currently see.<\/p>\n

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Via The Atlantic<\/a>; thanks to @_ettey<\/a> for the link. \u00a0Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New survey data shows that the average person overestimates the diversity of the American population, both now and in the future. \u00a0Today, for example, racial minorities make up 37% of the population, but the average guess was 49%. Many Americans fear rising diversity. \u00a0Over half worry that more minorities means fewer jobs, nearly half think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":58194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,29,2056,135,34,55,778,85,304,283,693,285,1759,1760,1754,20063,1757,42,76],"class_list":["post-58187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-demography","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-politics","tag-the-state","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-public-opinion","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-religion","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/Screenshot_1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187","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=58187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61400,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187\/revisions\/61400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}