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NCRM research in the Guardian: Poverty is more likely cause of mistrust than race

Published: 30 November 2010Origin: Social Statistics and Demography

Research by NCRM Director Professor Patrick Sturgis has been reported in the Guardian.

Poverty and gross inequality are six times more likely than ethnic diversity to cause British people to be suspicious of their neighbours, a landmark academic paper has found repudiating the argument that multicultural societies make people uneasy and less trusting of strangers.

To read more, please visit The Guardian website.

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