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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This reminds me of the EIU's democracy index. I was struck when looking at the 2018 list by the top few countries:

1.Norway 9.87
2. Iceland 9.58
3. Sweden 9.39
4. New Zealand 9.26
5. Denmark 9.22
6. Ireland 9.15
6. Canada 9.15
8. Finland 9.14
9. Australia 9.09
10. Switzerland 9.03
...25. United States 7.96

Seems like it's a lot easier to be more democratic in a homogenous society.

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Those are all white countries.[b] Now do homgenous non-white countries. [/b][/quote]

bottom five from the site:
https://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index

Chad
Central African Republic
Dem Republic of Congo
Syria
N. Korea[/quote]

So homogeneity doesn't seem to have a strong correlation with democracy. [/quote]
DP: iirc, the research on this has homogeneity swinging both ways.

But just wanted to point out that [b]DROC, CAR, and Syria[/b] are most definitely not homogeneous countries[/quote]

in bold - What's the biggest factor?  religion?[/quote]

Religion, ethnicity and language.  But I'd stress that the American conception of race is not universal.  Moreover, the neat delineations of religion we have are much more complex at the local level (are Alawites muslim?).  Humanity has a nasty habit of choosing to define themselves as different than each other.  We also have a bad habit of projecting our own internal distinctions (ie: race) onto other places and extrapolating from there.

I would agree that shared core values do impact things like democracy and common goods, but, things like the Rwandan genocide show how that can fall apart when artificial constructs of the "other" come into play.  For me, I just think we need to bring civics classes back to school.[/quote]

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