The Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans largely interact with members of their own race or ethnicity.
A wide-ranging new survey from the Pew Research Center found that Americans have a complex, and often contradictory, relationship with the country’s changing racial and ethnic makeup. The study measured attitudes toward evolving demographics in a host of social settings, such as the workplace, residential neighborhoods and the public square. Among survey respondents, Pew found that “relatively few Americans interact a lot with people from other racial and ethnic groups.
The picture is similar from the perspective of black Americans, who interact by and large with other black Americans on a daily basis. Although, unlike their white counterparts, nearly half of blacks report interacting “a lot” with whites every day. Following from this discrepancy, black Americans report one of the highest rates of interracial interaction of any racial group surveyed. Eighty-two percent of blacks interact at least a little bit with whites on a daily basis.
Majorities of respondents along every racial, ethnic and political group measured, with one exception, indicated that they believed diversity has a positive impact on the country’s culture. Exactly half of respondents who self-identify as Republican hold this view. Considering that racial intermingling in social settings is not widespread among racial categories, this view may be more of a statement of personal values rather than a lesson born of individual experience.
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