Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Puritan (and evangelical) values and prejudice

 "Studies since the ’70s have also found that Americans who score high on a Protestant Ethic Scale (emphasizing self-reliance and self-discipline) or similar metric show marked prejudice against racial minorities and the poor; hostility toward social welfare efforts" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
08/05/opinion/sunday/are-americans-still-puritan.html?_r=1&src=rechp


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