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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-most-and-least-ethnically-diverse-countries/

This was printed today in the Washington Post but it is a 11 year old survey and it seems pretty strange. I am surprised to see parts of Africa as the most diverse, but the survey is implying that even groups that are are racially the same but don't share the same language ,religion etc. will identify as different ethnic groups. I don't understand why Northern Ireland and some places in Europe wouldnt be described as more "diverse". Afghanistan is less diverse than India? Japan and the Koreas are the most homogenous.

The US is less diverse than Canada? The article mentions that maybe Quebec maybe counted as different ethnicity and maybe a larger native population and there were some comments after the article about the phone survey and hyphenated nationalities in various countries. The Americas were more diverse than Europe or Asia obviously but Chile and Argentina ranked differently. The survey is using ethnical diversity in a different way than just racial diversity.

"One thing the Harvard Institute authors did with all that data was measure it for what they call ethnic fractionalization. Another word for it might be diversity. They gauged this by asking an elegantly simple question: If you called up two people at random in a particular country and ask them their ethnicity, what are the odds that they would give different answers? The higher the odds, the more ethnically “fractionalized” or diverse the country."

"There are a few trends you can see right away: countries in Europe and Northeast Asia tend to be the most homogenous, sub-Saharan African nations the most diverse. The Americas are generally somewhere in the middle."

Before we go any further, though, a few important caveats, all of which appear in the original research paper as well. Well, all except for the report’s age. It’s now 11 years old. And given the scarcity of information from some countries, some of the data are very old, dating from as far back as the early 1990s or even late 1980s. Conceptions of ethnicity can change over time; the authors note that this happened in Somalia, where the same people started self-identifying differently after war broke out.

And so can the actual national make-ups themselves, due to immigration, conflict, demographic trends and other factors. It’s entirely possible, then, that some of these diversity “scores” would look different with present-day data.

Another caveat is that people in different countries might have different bars for what constitutes a distinct ethnicity. These data, then, could be said to measure the perception of ethnic diversity more than the diversity itself; given that ethnicity is a social construct, though those two metrics are not necessarily as distinct as one might think. Finally, as the paper notes, “It would be wrong to interpret our ethnicity variable as reflecting racial characteristics alone.” Ethnicity might partially coincide with race, but they’re not the same thing."
 
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fiveteamer
Interesting to see that those Nordic welfare states are essentially cut off to the outside world.
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Fiver Nordic broads are programmed by nature to be attracted to foreigners, the same way young, very attractive Cuban ladies find middle aged Canadian men irresistible.

Fiver you would die of a pussy overdose if you spent a month in Stockholm or Oslo.
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...icity-maps-from-an-ethnic-conflict-professor/

A map of the worlds most and least racially tolerant countries

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"If we treat this data as indicative of racial tolerance, then we might conclude that people in the bluer countries are the least likely to express racist attitudes, while the people in red countries are the most likely."

Indias numbers?

"Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its Anglo former colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and in Latin America. The only real exceptions were oil-rich Venezuela, where income inequality sometimes breaks along racial lines, and the Dominican Republic, perhaps because of its adjacency to troubled Haiti. Scandinavian countries also scored high."

"India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong by far the least tolerant. In only three of 81 surveyed countries, more than 40 percent of respondents said they would not want a neighbor of a different race. This included 43.5 percent of Indians, 51.4 percent of Jordanians and an astonishingly high 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers and 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis."

Good point on here about how honest people are in this survey and how they hear the question.

"(2) Different people might hear the question differently. Saideman writes, In some places, when one is asked this question, they may think of a single race, perhaps the Vietnamese think of the Chinese but not of other races. So it may not be that the people are very racist in general they just hate one group that is defined by race. In other words, if Vietnam scored as particularly intolerant (they did), that might just be because theyre less tolerant toward the race that popped into their heads first e.g. the Chinese than they are of other races in general. This makes it tougher to compare across countries."
 
I think the question means alot of different things to many people especially if you are talking about ethnic groups and the prevalence of tribalism and age old identities in so many parts of the world. Huge differences between the new world and the old world. They mention somalia and sub saharan africa as the most diverse, and point out there are so many different tribes in somalia and the ethnic identities that came after war. You can have a homogenous racial country and so many different cultures and tribal/religious conflicts. More from that last article

" Wide, interesting variation across Europe. Immigration and national identity are big, touchy issues in much of Europe, where racial make-ups are changing. Though you might expect the richer, better-educated Western European nations to be more tolerant than those in Eastern Europe, that’s not exactly the case. France appeared to be one of the least racially tolerant countries on the continent, with 22.7 percent saying they didn’t want a neighbor of another race. Former Soviet states such as Belarus and Latvia scored as more tolerant than much of Europe. Many in the Balkans, perhaps after years of ethnicity-tinged wars, expressed lower racial tolerance.

• The Middle East not so tolerant. Immigration is also a big issue in this region, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which often absorb economic migrants from poorer neighbors.

• Racial tolerance low in diverse Asian countries. Nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines, where many racial groups often jockey for influence and have complicated histories with one another, showed more skepticism of diversity. This was also true, to a lesser extent, in China and Kyrgyzstan. There were similar trends in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

• South Korea, not very tolerant, is an outlier. Although the country is rich, well-educated, peaceful and ethnically homogenous – all trends that appear to coincide with racial tolerance – more than one in three South Koreans said they do not want a neighbor of a different race. This may have to do with Korea’s particular view of its own racial-national identity as unique – studied by scholars such as B.R. Myers – and with the influx of Southeast Asian neighbors and the nation’s long-held tensions with Japan.

• Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier. Although the country has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, low economic and human development indices – only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race. This would appear to suggest Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch."
 
Maybe the Russian data comes from the fact that many people questioned saw themselves as part of that certain ethnic group of the province they lived in and most Russians in Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc identifying as Russian. I dont think Moscow or St. Petersburg is anything like New York, Toronto, LA, etc. in terms of diversity of ethnic groups, in the fact that most would probably call themselves Russian rather than just Ukrainian-Russian,Tatars, Armenian-Russian etc.

This was from the original article

"One thing the Harvard Institute authors did with all that data was measure it for what they call ethnic fractionalization. Another word for it might be diversity. They gauged this by asking an elegantly simple question: If you called up two people at random in a particular country and ask them their ethnicity, what are the odds that they would give different answers? The higher the odds, the more ethnically “fractionalized” or diverse the country."
 
Davidas
Why isn't the UK proper green? They've got it all, dozens of nationalities in there. I don't think this map should be taken too seriously.
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While they have representations from many ethnicities there aren't large numbers of people from these ethnicities. Nearly 90% of the UK is White/British and the next largest ethnic group is Indian at a measly 1.8% of the total population. Compared to the USA (or almost any other nation) this is not a significant amount. Debates about what constitutes ethnicity aside, the UK has very FEW ethnically diverse PEOPLE despite have MANY total diverse ethnicities.
 
It's amazing how many Indians there are in some parts of the local suburbs - particularly considering how much they apparently can't stand the cold weather. Canada is a great country but I don't quite get why you come here if you are that averse to cold weather. A few people I have known have lived smack dab in the middle of Indian areas and they turn into complete ghost towns in the winter.

There are loads of children - you know there are because you saw them all summer - but are they out throwing snowballs or playing road hockey or whatever Indian kids do to be kids? No. Every single one of them has vanished off the face of the earth for the entire season.

Kind of spooky.
 
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