Study: Diversity + Proximity = Yup, You Guessed It

Chateau Heartiste

Add another vindicating fluff of yer ‘umble narrator’s e’er-so-‘umble ego. Via HBD Chick, a pointer to a 2017 research paper that lovingly (if jargonistically) validates my Diversity + Proximity = War equation and (re)discovers that ethnic diversity in close proximity raises the risk of civil war and other miserable outcomes.

From the paper’s abstract:

We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms, values…

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