The last decade or two have seen the woke exerting strong pressure to increase diversity, the first component of DEI. This has met considerable resistance, and we should try to understand why that might be.
Ed Driscoll at Instapundit links to a (2020) article in the Annual Review of Political Science, with findings the "woke" have tried hard to suppress. It is titled: "Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review." "Meta-analytical" means not one study but, in this case, a summation of the findings of 87 peer-reviewed studies. The key finding follows.
We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.
For those who want a few more details.
Across studies, the overall meta-estimate of the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust is negative and significantly different from zero; trust is on average lower in more ethnically diverse contexts.
Across all studies, we observe a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust of moderate size. On average, social trust is thus lower in more ethnically diverse contexts.
The relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust is only slightly attenuated, and remains negative and significant, when controlling for potential confounders or mediators, specifically individual minority background, socioeconomic deprivation (individual and contextual), contextual crime, and interethnic contact.(emphases added)
Experiencing more diverse settings as ones where we feel more distrustful certainly explains a fair amount of the resistance to DEI and woke.
