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Your comment reminds me of a book, "Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism: New Data and Evolutionary Theory". The book looks for empirical evidence for the theory of
by moo 12y ago
Your comment reminds me of a book, "Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism: New Data and Evolutionary Theory". The book looks for empirical evidence for the theory of ethnic nepotism and kin altruism. I don't think I agree with all conclusions but interesting in that the book argues ethnic groupings resist collective programs because they don't want to share with or support other ethnic groups.
- disputin 12y agoI'll be taking a look at that, thanks. In London I find the majority of diversity has little integration, instead each nationality gathers in a location and forms an insular "community" mostly detached from the others, which seems to miss the point. I've met people who've been here for 20 years yet can't speak English due to that insularity. Members of nationality X walking 25 minutes to get a nation X pizza, rather than the Italian pizza five minutes away, only buy nation X products, only from nation X shops, nation based employment, nation based music lessons, and so on. Some preference, practicality, or nostalgia is understandable, but it's beyond that. There's polarization, which worsens when there's some form of stress. There's no discussion of it because because there's fear of accusations of racism in what's become a sort of racism witch hunt. The UK news has recently been filled with news of a Pakistani child sex grooming gang, but the media seem to be referring to them as Asian, which not only is sufficiently vague that they may as well be saying that they're from the northern hemisphere, but it also strikes me as even more divisive to be categorising an entire continent. Ethics and ideologies aside, I'm interested in the mechanics and where it can and where it is unlikely to succeed.