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He reported short-term local dips and explicitly supported continued immigration with bridging policies. Misreadings weaponized one paper for racist politics he rejected. Italy, South Korea, and Singapore shifted business and civic trust through legal reform, education, and anti-corruption — decades, not millennia of "culture genes."
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Social trust
- Core idea Trust beyond kin
- Payoff Lower transaction costs
- Institutions Courts, norms, media
- Scholarly frame Putnam, Fukuyama
- Debate Diversity critiques
- Not this No trust-by-race
Blood groups
- Systems ABO · Rh · many
- Pattern Frequency clines
- Clinical Matching saves lives
- Forensics Weak ancestry signal
- Evolution Pathogen hypotheses
- Universal donor Context-dependent
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Social trust · fact
Surveys describe social contexts. Attributing trust to ancestry revives colonial stereotypes and ignores intra-country variation larger than many cross-country gaps. Segregation and inequality predict low trust better than diversity alone. Inclusive institutions in diverse democracies prove mixing is compatible with strong generalized trust.
Social trust · fact
He reported short-term local dips and explicitly supported continued immigration with bridging policies. Misreadings weaponized one paper for racist politics he rejected. Italy, South Korea, and Singapore shifted business and civic trust through legal reform, education, and anti-corruption — decades, not millennia of "culture genes."
Social trust · fact
IQ-by-group rankings are rejected on this site. Trust correlates with institutional quality and experience of fairness — variables policy can change without eugenics. Robert Putnam documented falling club membership and civic participation in late-twentieth-century America, linking them to weaker local trust and governance.
Social trust · Francis Fukuyama compared family-centered vs broadly trusting so
Francis Fukuyama compared family-centered vs broadly trusting societies, arguing that clan-heavy cultures face higher business transaction costs unless law and voluntary associations widen the circle. Contemporary readers pair the book with caution about cultural determinism and East Asian exceptionalism tropes.
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IQ-by-group rankings are rejected on this site. Trust correlates with institutional quality and experience of fairness — variables policy can change without eugenics. Robert Putnam documented falling club membership and civic participation in late-twentieth-century America, linking them to weaker local trust and governance.
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Francis Fukuyama compared family-centered vs broadly trusting societies, arguing that clan-heavy cultures face higher business transaction costs unless law and voluntary associations widen the circle. Contemporary readers pair the book with caution about cultural determinism and East Asian exceptionalism tropes.
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