Washington, May 25 -- : With time, people can adapt to societal diversity and actually benefit from it, according to a study.
Whenever people feel insecure for economic reasons and society around them changes, it becomes tempting for politicians to blame immigrants for these feelings of insecurity, even when this is not really the case. It is up to political leaders to set the right tone and message to counteract distrust in the short term so as to encourage integration in the long run.
According to the findings published in the Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, those in power especially set the tone for integrating people into a new society.
"If you give people who are different from you half a chance, they wil...