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26 Post author: Multiheaded 25 January 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 28 January 2012 05:28:33AM 2 points [-]

Note that the original claim said, "Too much ethnic diversity kills liberal social democracy." This seems false and certainly contradicts Putnam (see sibling comment), who gives historical reasons for thinking these effects will vanish in the long term.

In the narrow matter of support for a welfare state, the source I found earlier purports to show that ethnic diversity as such has little to no effect.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 28 January 2012 08:53:23AM 3 points [-]

This seems false and certainly contradicts Putnam (see sibling comment), who gives historical reasons for thinking these effects will vanish in the long term.

I obviously think he is wrong.