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Preserving National Unity: Culturometric Rapid Appraisals of Ethnic Inequalities
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Preserving National Unity: Culturometric Rapid Appraisals of Ethnic Inequalities
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Preserving National Unity: Culturometric Rapid Appraisals of Ethnic Inequalities
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Modern developing multi-cultural countries claim their status as progressive democracies by promulgating policies of civic cohesion engendering ethnic equity within a national unity. However, what is promulgated through government mission statements, public speeches and the sentiments of national anthems might hot successfully align with realities of citizen concern. This book introduces a Culturometric application for evaluating these claims to progressive democracy within multi-cultural developing countries. The Culturometric method is demonstrated in this book by evaluating claims to ethnic equity and national unity In Trinidad. The evaluation uses a representative sample of Trinidadian households surveyed to identify advantaged and disadvantaged demographic groups by education/income, wealth, etc. and to measure the equity of their-ethnic identities and comparative national allegiances. This new area of research has been made possible by the innovative tools of Culturometrics. Socio-cultural bricolage in modern multi-cultural societies undermines the utility of traditional, cultural research that uses simplistic binary self-labelling of ethnicity based on ancestral genetic body types. The Culturometric methodology is more rigorous and applicable than traditional cultural studies in that, rather than a binary count of heads, it utilises Cultural Index Regulators that measure, the strength of cultural components within individual identity. This quick and sensitive appraisal of ethnic allegiances among population subgroups rapidly measures inequalities that threaten national unity so that governments and NGOs can be proactive in avoiding flash-point civic disorder and its attendant human suffering.