Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
How is being forced into diversity ethically different from being forced to separate? I don't even think there's an equivalency here. I think it's disingenuous to use the word "forced" when you're talking about living in closed proximity to different cultures because the culture part does not impede your personal freedom, but forcing people to separate impedes their personal freedom. If you have data, I'd love to see it. I like data driven arguments.
The argument isn't about being forced to separate: It's about having a home for people who are like you.

It's not unlike the notion that men need all-male spaces, and women need all-female spaces.

But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.
Google is your friend: http://archive.boston.com/news/globe..._of_diversity/