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triceratopsyesterday at 4:39 PM1 replyview on HN

I love how racism gets snuck into everything these days.

No, homogeneity doesn't cause happiness.[1] And the US was always less homogenous than other "western" countries.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Japan#Suicide_proble...


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xienzeyesterday at 8:00 PM

> No, homogeneity doesn't cause happiness.

Funny though how all those European countries everyone on HN and Reddit point to as "how things should be" are all pretty ethnically and culturally homogenous, though that's changing rapidly. Interestingly, cracks are starting to appear.

> And the US was always less homogenous than other "western" countries.

The US was 85-90% white in 1965. That's pretty homogenous.

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