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...like turtles,” Putnam said. In diverse communities, people are not only less trusting of neighbors from different backgrounds, but also of those from their own ethnic and racial groups...
...Angeles, one of the most diverse cities in the world, has the lowest level of trust in the United States, Putnam said. He attributed this to a “socio-psychological system overload,” a type of shock resulting from an influx of heterogeneous newcomers into a generally homogeneous society...
...Putnam said people’s turtle-like behavior when first confronted with diversity fades over time...
Whereas the Catholic-Protestant divide was once a salient feature of American life—and whereas Jews once faced huge hurdles when they sought to integrate into mainstream U.S. society—the separations among religious groups have eroded over the past half-century, Putnam said...
However, as time passed, the practice of endogamy faded and was replaced by intermarriage across denominational lines, decreasing the importance of religious divisions in American society, Putnam said...