Maybe 18-29-Year-Olds Aren't So 'Multiculti' After All

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Popular wisdom says that young adults, having come of age in a multicultural era, are (unlike their elders) open to all sorts of ethnicities and customs. A survey of 18-29-year-olds by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, in conjunction with Knowledge Networks, gives reason to wonder whether that assumption is altogether correct.

As the chart here shows, many of the 18-29s look askance at “recent immigration,” especially if it’s recent immigration from Latin America. Nor is such sentiment confined to the more downscale, uneducated respondents.

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