{"id":773,"date":"2022-09-20T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=773"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T01:16:40","slug":"immigration-traveling-abroad-interacting-with-international-community-results-in-more-tolerance-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/09\/20\/immigration-traveling-abroad-interacting-with-international-community-results-in-more-tolerance-of-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: Traveling abroad, interacting with international community, results in more tolerance of immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the midst of a week when immigration is all over the headlines, a new&nbsp;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/722339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">study<\/a>&nbsp;says members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints <strong>who come into contact with immigrants on their church missions become more tolerant and more favorable of pro-immigration policies.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p>The study, slated to be published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Politics, was based on interviews with 1,804 Latter-day Saints conducted both before and after missionary service, which is typically completed between the ages of 18- to 21-years-old. T<strong>he authors of the study found that missionaries who served around immigrants, or missionaries who served in the U.S. around large Latin American populations or who were assigned to speak a language besides English saw the largest increases in tolerant attitudes toward immigrants<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2022\/9\/19\/23362299\/study-latter-day-saint-mormon-missions-change-political-views-on-immigration\">Study: Latter-day Saint missions change views on immigration &#8211; Deseret News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds &#8211; no surprise &#8211; that those who have gone abroad, or interacted with immigrant populations, or who speak a 2nd language are more favorable towards immigration and immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background","category-languages","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}