Study shows ethnic diversity without boundaries and without a dominant culture leads to ethnic conflict by Lawrence Auster

When uber-liberal Brandeis University publicizes a study (Via ParaPundit.) concluding that "good fences make good neighbors," that "well-defined borders help prevent ethnic tension," and that when a dominant culture lacks the force to impose its standards on other cultures, ethnic conflict breaks out, you know that there is something shifting in the fundaments of the modern world. The story, based on an article in Science, is posted at a website called EurekAlert, but it lists a contact person at Brandeis University where the study was done, so it would seem to be an official release. It's interesting enough to post the full text here

Good fences make good neighbors
Novel study show how ethnic conflict is governed by global pattern formation.

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