There is a related article by Putnam in the June issue of Scandanavian Political
Studies:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vva4s

E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century The 2006
Johan Skytte Prize Lecture

Robert D. Putnam
Scandinavian Political Studies 30(2): 137–174.

Abstract
Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by
sharp increases in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are
likely to have important cultural, economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits.
In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce
social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in
ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’.
Trust (even of one's own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation
rarer, friends fewer. In the long run, however, successful immigrant societies
have overcome such fragmentation by creating new, cross-cutting forms of social
solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustrations of becoming
comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious
institutions, and earlier waves of American immigration.


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> Click on link below to listen.
> http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/08/20070809_b_main.asp
> 
> Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is a self-described full-on 
> liberal who worries a lot about community in America.
> 
> He made his name in the 1990s with his finding that hordes of Americans 
> were, in his famous phrase, "bowling alone" -- living without the 
> traditional community ties of bowling leagues and Moose clubs that bound 
> people together.
> 
> Then he set out on a huge project to find out why. The answer looks like a 
> liberal's nightmare: diversity. Diverse communities, Putnam found, show 
> dysfunction. At least for a while.
> 
> This hour On Point: Robert Putnam, Pat Buchanan and Lani Guinier on 
> diversity and community in America.
> 
>  Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author 
> of "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community." · Lani 
> Guinier, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author of the forthcoming 
> "Meritocracy, Inc: How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race and Higher 
> Education Became a Gift from the Poor to the Rich." · Pat Buchanan, Founder 
> and Editor of The American Conservative magazine and author of "State of 
> Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

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