Is ethnic prejudice declining in Britain? Change in social distance attitudes among ethnic majority and minority Britons.
Is ethnic prejudice declining in Britain? Change in social distance attitudes among ethnic majority and minority Britons.
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英国的种族偏见正在减少吗？
作者：
Ingrid Storm;M. Sobolewska;R. Ford
大多数关于种族偏见的文献分别论述了多数族裔和少数族裔的种族态度。本文打破了这一传统。我们研究了白色和非白色英国居民的社会距离态度，以测试这些态度是否随着时间的推移遵循相同的趋势，他们是否是由相同的社会进程，以及他们是否相互关联。我们有三个主要发现。首先，随着时间的推移，白色和少数民族英国人与其他种族群体的社会距离都在下降。对于大多数白色人来说，这种下降既有时期因素，也有群体因素。其次，我们看到一些证据表明，多数群体和少数群体之间的社会距离是相互的。具体来说，经历过白色英国人排斥的少数民族会感到与他们有更大的距离感。第三，我们发现，所有群体都有相同的种族等级观念。我们看到的证据表明，所有族裔群体对穆斯林英国人的敌意特别普遍，这表明穆斯林受到许多其他背景的英国居民的负面关注，包括大量不对其他群体表示敌意的人。
Most literature on racial prejudice deals with the racial attitudes of the ethnic majority and ethnic minorities separately. This paper breaks this tradition. We examine the social distance attitudes of white and non-white British residents to test if these attitudes follow the same trends over time, whether they are driven by the same social processes and whether they are inter-related. We have three main findings. Firstly, social distance from other ethnic groups has declined over time for both white and ethnic minority Britons. For the white majority there are both period and cohort elements to this decline. Secondly, we see some evidence that social distance between the majority and minority groups is reciprocal. Specifically, minorities who experience rejection by the white British feel a greater sense of distance from them. Thirdly, we find that all groups share the perception of the same ethnic hierarchy. We see evidence of particularly widespread hostility towards Muslim Britons from all ethnic groups suggesting that Muslims are singled out for negative attention from many British residents of all other backgrounds, including a large number who do not express hostility to other groups.