Ebook: The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature

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" 'Shines a powerful torch on the elephant in the room--the damage being done to the west by the mass immigration of non-European peoples'. --Richard Lynn.

Byron M. Roth is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Dowling College. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His work has appeared in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Public Interest, Academic Questions and Encounter. His previous books include "Decision Making: Its Logic and Practice", co-authored with John D. Mullen, and "Prescription for Failure: Race Relations in the Age of Social Science". The latter was described by the editors of the journal Political Psychology as "a book of major importance to the science and the applications of political psychology."

Byron M. Roth argues that the current debate over immigration policy is unlikely to produce a satisfying outcome since it takes place uninformed by the science of human nature. Any policy of mass immigration will be profoundly constrained by fundamental features of human psychology, prominent among them is a natural bias toward one's own kind and a wariness and suspicion of--if not hostility towards--others. The prospect for social harmony in multi-ethnic societies is thus problematic at best, and difficulties are compounded when groups differ in ability and temperament in non-trivial ways. / Roth explores the history of immigration to the United States, revealing that the earlier, pre-war immigration experience was so different from current patterns that it cannot provide a useful template for understanding and assessing them. In addition, Roth addresses the disturbingly undemocratic nature of the regime of mass immigration imposed by authorities on the citizens of all Western nations in defiance of their clearly expressed wishes. He shows that the chasm between elite views and public opinion is so deep that current policies can only be maintained by an increasingly totalitarian suppression of dissent that undermines the very foundations of Western society."