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Psychologists at UCLA have discovered something truly remarkable: Caucasians actually act like human beings when confronted with certain situations!

In this case, they found that when white people were informed they were soon to be a minority in the United States, their support for diversity and multiculturalism … declined.

The UCLA Newsroom reports:

As part of their study, the researchers divided 98 white Americans from all regions of the country — half male, half female, with an average age of 37 — randomly into two groups. One group was told that whites will no longer be the majority in the U.S. by 2050; in fact, this is likely to be true as soon as 2043, according to some projections. The second group was told that whites would retain their majority status in the U.S. through at least 2050. All participants were then asked a series of questions about their views on diversity.

“Whites feel lukewarm about diversity when they are told that they are about to lose their majority status in the United States for the first time,” said Yuen Huo, UCLA professor of psychology and the study’s senior author.

“We see a significant reduction in the endorsement of diversity when white Americans are exposed to current projections of future demographics,” said Felix Danbold, a UCLA psychology doctoral student and the paper’s lead author. “Most Americans view diversity in positive terms, but many white Americans who see the actual demographic projections, and the loss of their majority status, end up being less enthusiastic about it.”

The researchers concluded “that the demographic changes are threatening whites’ sense that they best represent the American identity.”

The results were published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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