The consumption of out-of-home highbrow leisure by ethnicity and national origin: attendance at museums and live theatres in Houston

Is Openness in Taste Directly Associated with Tolerance? Exploring a Relationship between Openness in Taste in Leisure Consumption and Attitudes toward Immigrants

“…Contemporary canons of sophisticated appreciation in major urban areas with a significant immigrant presence highlight the value of foreign and immigrant artistic/ cultural manifestations, and promote their consumption (see DiMaggio and Fernández-Kelly 2010;Kasinitz 2014;Rojas Gaviria and Emontspool 2015). In major U.S. cities, museums and theaters are affordable and inclusive spaces where visitors can appreciate/consume legitimate international and multicultural manifestations with strong international roots (Levitt 2015;Paredes 2016). For example, individuals with different ethno-racial characteristics and nationalities-regardless of whether they are Mexican Americans, Vietnamese immigrants, African Americans or non-Hispanic whites-are able to appreciate Indian, Spanish, or Mexican art when they visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.…”

“…In Houston, museums are inclusive spaces where visitors find multicultural, international cultural manifestations, and several local organizations promote multicultural live theater events (Paredes 2016). As in other major U.S. metropolitan areas, Houston offers a variety of attractive leisure activities including museums, theaters, and sport venues with respect to other urban areas with limited leisure alternatives (e.g., smaller urban areas).…”

“…4 In addition, Houston has professional major, minor, and semi-pro sport leagues. Due to its cosmopolitan ethno-racial diversity and its rich cultural offer, this city stands out as an attractive research setting for studying the consumption of out-of-home leisure and tolerance toward immigrants (Paredes 2016(Paredes , 2017.…”

“…Beyond the sophistication attributed to tastes for highbrow cultural manifestations, openness in taste represents a standard of sophistication typical of cosmopolitan societies in accordance with the inclusive standards of cultural omnivorousness. Houston, Texas, the urban research setting, is an established immigrant destination with significant transnational connections, a complex ethno-racial diversity brought about by immigration, and a great offer of out-of-home leisure activities (Paredes 2016(Paredes , 2017.…”

Impact of the EU Blue Card programme on cultural participation and subjective well-being of migrants in Germany

“…The majority of the earlier studies have explored economic, demographic, political and institutional outcomes as measures of integration, including wages, employment, language, citizenship rights, religion, fertility choices and language [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. While few studies have explored the role of different types of cultural and leisure activities as part of the integration process [13,14], our study contributes to the earlier literature by exploring the impact of the migration policy of the EU Blue Card programme in 2012 on cultural participation using a sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) and as a robustness check, we apply a fuzzy RDD. While we recognize that integration is very important for promoting social inclusion and the well-being of migrants in terms of economic and political initiatives, such as citizenship rights, employment and wages, we argue that research should also focus on the effect of policies on cultural participation, as it can demonstrate well-being, promote social inclusion and build a space for cross-cultural dialogue [15,16].…”