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3 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
“Most of the variation is within these groups and is, in my view, largely down to psychology — whether you like diversity or change — and disposition that would be linked to openness, one of the big five personality traits, or whether you prefer stability and continuity.”
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- 3 Jul 2019
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…Going back to the United States, as a group, why aren’t educated women more worried about immigration? Because they don’t seem to be in polling data. No, they’re less worried, right? There’s still a lot of educated women who voted for Trump, for example, but just less so than other groups of people. I don’t put a lot in the social categories, whether it’s class or even age or gender, in terms of predictors. Most of the variation is within these groups and is, in my view, largely down to psychology — whether you like diversity or change — and disposition that would be linked to openness, one of the big five personality traits, or whether you prefer stability and continuity. We find those kinds of people amongst educated women, white working-class men, et cetera. But I wouldn’t say that there’s necessarily much in the educated female experience per se that would make somebody be pro-immigration. How much of American politics do you think is explained by Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory?…
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