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INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN PLURAL SOCIETIES

INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN PLURAL SOCIETIES. PSYC 338. How much do you agree or disagree that:. It is a good thing for any society to be made up of people from different races religions and cultures.

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INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN PLURAL SOCIETIES

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  1. INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN PLURAL SOCIETIES PSYC 338

  2. How much do you agree or disagree that: • It is a good thing for any society to be made up of people from different races religions and cultures. • Immigrants should give up their original culture for the sake of adopting New Zealand culture. • Immigrants should maintain their original culture as long as they do not mix it with NZ culture. • Immigrants should maintain their original culture while also adopting NZ culture.

  3. LECTURE OUTLINE • Overview and theoretical frameworks • Social Psychology • Cross-cultural Psychology • Ethnocentrism • Stereotypes • Attributions • Similarity-attraction and cultural distance • Threat • Integrated Threat Theory (Stephan) • Instrumental model of group conflict (Esses) • Contact

  4. LECTURE OUTLINE (cont) • Model of Attitudes toward Immigrants in New Zealand • Multicultural Ideology • Acculturation Expectations • Multiculturalism and Biculturalism in New Zealand • Common Ingroup Identity • Conclusions

  5. Ethnocentrism • Stereotypes • Attributions • Similarity-attractiveness

  6. Perceptions of Migrant Groups In New Zealand

  7. THREAT THEORIES • Integrated Threat Theory (Stephan) • Realistic threat • Symbolic threat • Intergroup Anxiety • Stereotypes

  8. THREAT THEORIES • Instrumental Model of Group Conflict (Esses) • Resource stress • Salient Outgroup • Intergroup Competition • Zero sum beliefs • Fear and anxiety • Outcomes • Avoidance • Discrimination

  9. REALISTIC THREAT % of agreement • Immigrants take jobs away from Nzers. 27% • Immigrants bring diseases into NZ that not would not otherwise be here. 24% N = 500

  10. ZERO SUM BELIEFS % agreement • Allowing immigrant cultures to thrive means that NZ culture is weakened. 23% • The more political power immigrants obtain, the more difficult it is for Nzers already living here. 29% N = 500

  11. MAORI AND PAKEHA PERCEPTIONS OF THREAT (% of agreement) Maori Pakeha More jobs for immigrants means 61 29 fewer jobs for Nzers. When immigrants promote their own values, it is at the expense of NZ values. 59 25 Note: N = 500

  12. An integrated model of attitudes toward immigrants in New Zealand (Ward & Masgoret, in press)

  13. MULTICULTURAL IDEOLOGY IN NEW ZEALAND

  14. It is a good thing for any society to be made up of people from different races religions and cultures.

  15. ACCULTURATION EXPECTATIONS • Integration • Assimilation • Separation (Segregation) • Marginalization (Exclusion)

  16. ACCULTURATION EXPECTATIONS: NATIONAL SAMPLE(% of agreement) • Immigrants should give up their original culture for the sake of adopting New Zealand culture. 21% • Immigrants should maintain their original culture as long as they do not mix it with NZ culture. 28% • Immigrants should maintain their original culture while also adopting NZ culture. 82%

  17. ADOLESCENTS’ ACCULTURATION PREFERENCES AND EXPECTATIONS

  18. NATIONAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITY

  19. ACCULTURATION PREFERENCES AND EXPECTATIONS: MAORI AND NZE

  20. MULTICULTURALISM AND BICULTURALISM

  21. BICULTURALISM

  22. MULTICULTURALISM

  23. IMPLICATIONS OF MULTICULTURALISM • Hyphenated, common ingroup identity • Better adaptation of culturally diverse groups groups • Better intergroup relations

  24. CONCLUDING COMMENTS • NZers have a strong multicultural ideology • Both migrants and members of the receiving community favor integration • Biculturalism and multiculturalism are not seen as mutually exclusive

  25. OUR CHALLENGE TO ENSURE THAT • All ethnic groups in New Zealand feel secure about their cultural identity and heritage • All ethnic groups are able to participate fully and equally in New Zealand society • The status of Maori as partners in the Treaty of Waitangi is protected as New Zealand evolves into a multicultural society

  26. Additional References • Lynskey, M. T., Ward, C., & Fletcher, G. J. O. (1991). Stereotypes and intergroup attributions in New Zealand. Psychology ad Developing Societies, 3 (1), 113-126. • Ward, C., & Lin, E.-Y. (2005). Immigration, acculturation and national identity in New Zealand. In J. Liu, T. McCreanor, T. McIntosh & T. Teaiwa (Eds). New Zealand identities: Departures and destinations. (pp.155-173). Wellington: Victoria University Press.

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