The Economic Costs of Racial and Cultural Diversity

Hard facts. Period.

“Diversity” is arguably the most popular “feel-good” word inAmerican popular culture. It conjures up images of a society whereeveryone is welcome and nobody dominates.

Of course, thoseseeking to promote diversity never express a need to admit more whitesor even Hispanics to “historically black colleges,” nor to increaseblack or Indian homeownership in New York’s Chinatown. “Diversity,” farfrom meaning “let’s all get together,” really means, “let’s displacewhites.” And racially unconscious whites don’t care about—in fact, theyeven “celebrate”—their own decline.

But according to a new study undertaken by Dr. Edwin S. Rubenstein,the negative effects of diversity programs are not limited to thewhites who are displaced by them. They are harming the economy as awhole—to the tune of trillions of dollars.

Today’sneo-“conservatives,” whose only remaining connection to traditionalconservatism is a concern for free enterprise and economic prosperity,routinely join liberals in the clamor for more diversity. They would dowell to read Dr. Rubenstein’s study, which proves that the damagescaused by diversity can be measured in the only terms neoconsunderstand: dollars and cents. Lots of dollars and cents.

Read/download NPI’s report on the costs of diversity

2008-12-18