Diversity Study

Robert Putnam, a Harvard prof, recently completed a study of ethnic diversity and its effect on communities. The controversial conclusion, as described today in the Wall St. Journal:

People in ethnically diverse settings don't want to have much of anything to do with each other.

There's an interesting exception - apparently those evangelical mega-churches are often happily integrated. Which suggests that the real issue is not ethnic mixing as such.

People are more likely to care
When the focus is on values shared.