Claire Stevens
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

As a southerner, I have experienced this, too. It doesn’t help my feelings of antipathy towards the yanks.

As far as the Robert Putnam reference, what he wrote about and was most disturbed by was the general feeling of distrust that results from living with other racial groups. I believe that his observations were that it wasn’t manifested as open hatred or a need to be cruel and discriminate against other racial groups, but that the result was an underlying distrust of not only other racial groups but a distrust for one’s own racial group as well. This doesn’t just apply to the white population: all racial groups are affected. As a result, communities are fractured and less functional.

It was a finding that disturbed him since it flew in the face of all the pro-diversity propaganda. It may be that diversity is not our strength after all.

    Claire Stevens

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