Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
January 12, 2018
Nearly half of young white males in Generation Z believe efforts to increase diversity harm white people, according to a new wide ranging survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.
PRRI conducted the survey with a random sample of 2,023 young people age 15-24 who are part of market research company GfK’s YouthPulse panel. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points and was conducted online between July 19 and August 3, 2017 in both English and Spanish.
From PRRI:
Nearly one-third of young people, and almost half of white young men, say efforts to increase diversity harm white people.
About one-third (32%) of young people, including 38% of white young people, believe efforts to increase diversity almost always come at the expense of whites.
• White young men are more divided. Nearly half (48%) believe diversity efforts will harm white people, while more than half (52%) disagree. Only 28% of young white women believe efforts that promote diversity harm white people.
Forty-three percent of young white males say discrimination against whites “is as serious a problem as discrimination against other groups.”
More than 1 in 3 white young people believe “reverse” discrimination is a serious problem.
About one-third (36%) of white young people say discrimination against white people is as serious as that experienced by minority groups. Only 16% of black, 19% of API, and 28% of Hispanic young people agree.
• White young men are more likely than white young women (43% vs. 29%, respectively) to say discrimination against whites is as serious a problem as discrimination against other groups.
• A majority (55%) of white Americans overall—including roughly equal numbers of white men (55%) and white women (53%)—agree that discrimination against white people has become as big a problem as discrimination…