New Peer-Reviewed Danish Academic Study Finds Diversity Is Not A Strength

A new peer reviewed study by Danish academics has found that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on communities because it erodes trust.

Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review

Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at the Birkbeck University of London, also tweeted about the study, commenting, “Higher diversity *is* significantly associated with lower trust in communities, even when controlling for deprivation.”

Eric Kaufmann on Twitter

Higher diversity *is* significantly associated with lower trust in communities, even when controlling for deprivation. A definitive meta analysis of the diversity-trust literature (pub date 2020): https://t.co/IU6v24LaFs

That doesn’t mean diversity is bad. Just harder, as the Dutch are now discovering.