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- In a little more than a decade, the process of refugee resettlement had transformed Clarkston from a simple southern town into one of the most diverse communities in America.†
Chpt Intr.
- in less than a decade, little Clarkston, Georgia, became one of the most diverse communities in the country.
Chpt 3 *diverse = varied
- In 2007, a group of researchers led by the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam published a study detailing the results of surveys they had done with some thirty thousand residents of forty-one ethnically diverse communities in the United States.†
Chpt 3
- "Inhabitants of diverse communities tend to withdraw from collective life," the authors wrote, "to distrust their neighbors, regardless of the color of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more, but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television."†
Chpt 3
- Vertovec proposed a simple three-step process for building connections between members of different cultures within a "super-diverse" society.†
Chpt 19
- In Clarkston, even your basic parking-lot fight was super-diverse.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(diverse) varied or (having differences amongst things of the same kind) -- especially with regard to ideas or members of a population group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)