- there is no simple relationship between cultural adaptation and cultural repatriation; not a
positive relationship, in which a deep and meaningful adaptation to a host country is
associated with a positive return to one’s home country; nor an inverse relationship, in which
a meaningful and successful adaptation to a host country is associated with a distressing and
painful repatriation experience.
- significant relationship between cultural identity strength and repatriation distress. This is in
line with the model
- life satisfaction is related to an intercultural identity (global identity), and the absence of a
global identity predicts repatriation distress.
THEME 5: PART 1
Learning Goals:
Vignette 1:
1. What is stereotyping (difference btw. prejudice, discrimination, racism) ? Where do
stereotypes come from?
2. Why and how do stereotypes impact behaviour?
Vignette 2:
3. What are the factors that could enhance/inhibit their applications? Can we ignore/ suppress
stereotypes?
4. How does the model explain stereotyping?
5. How can you hold fewer stereotypes?
DEFINITION OF TERMS
- Racism = prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s racial background, or institutional
and cultural practices that promote the domination of one racial group over anothers
- Stereotypes = general beliefs about group characteristics and why certain characteristics go
together, can be neutral and even positive, they are more cognitive in nature
- Prejudice = negative feelings about others because of their connections to a social group
- Discrimination = negative behaviors directed against persons because of their membership
in a particular group
MODERN, AVERSIVE AND IMPLICIT RACISM
- Modern racism: a subtle form of prejudice that tends to surface when it is safe, socially
acceptable or easy to rationalize. According to theories of modern racism, people are racially
ambivalent. They want to see themselves as fair, but they still harbor feelings of anxiety and
discomfort about other racial groups. Contradictions and tensions lead to subtle, often
unconscious forms of prejudice and discrimination.
- Aversive racism: the ambivalence between individuals’ sincerely fair-minded attituted and
beliefs on the one hand, and their largely unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings
, and beliefs on the other. In these forms of racism, prejudice and discrimination surface in
very subtle ways.
- Implicit racism: racism that operates unconsciously and unintentionally. Subtle and often
implicit acts of racial discrimination can be found in just about any setting.
STEREOTYPE THREAT
In situations where a negative stereotype can apply to certain groups, members of these groups can
fear being seen “through the lens of diminishing stereotypes and low expectations” – stereotype
threat.
- Study about stereotype threat
CAUSES OF STEREOTYPE THREAT EFFECTS
positive relationship, in which a deep and meaningful adaptation to a host country is
associated with a positive return to one’s home country; nor an inverse relationship, in which
a meaningful and successful adaptation to a host country is associated with a distressing and
painful repatriation experience.
- significant relationship between cultural identity strength and repatriation distress. This is in
line with the model
- life satisfaction is related to an intercultural identity (global identity), and the absence of a
global identity predicts repatriation distress.
THEME 5: PART 1
Learning Goals:
Vignette 1:
1. What is stereotyping (difference btw. prejudice, discrimination, racism) ? Where do
stereotypes come from?
2. Why and how do stereotypes impact behaviour?
Vignette 2:
3. What are the factors that could enhance/inhibit their applications? Can we ignore/ suppress
stereotypes?
4. How does the model explain stereotyping?
5. How can you hold fewer stereotypes?
DEFINITION OF TERMS
- Racism = prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s racial background, or institutional
and cultural practices that promote the domination of one racial group over anothers
- Stereotypes = general beliefs about group characteristics and why certain characteristics go
together, can be neutral and even positive, they are more cognitive in nature
- Prejudice = negative feelings about others because of their connections to a social group
- Discrimination = negative behaviors directed against persons because of their membership
in a particular group
MODERN, AVERSIVE AND IMPLICIT RACISM
- Modern racism: a subtle form of prejudice that tends to surface when it is safe, socially
acceptable or easy to rationalize. According to theories of modern racism, people are racially
ambivalent. They want to see themselves as fair, but they still harbor feelings of anxiety and
discomfort about other racial groups. Contradictions and tensions lead to subtle, often
unconscious forms of prejudice and discrimination.
- Aversive racism: the ambivalence between individuals’ sincerely fair-minded attituted and
beliefs on the one hand, and their largely unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings
, and beliefs on the other. In these forms of racism, prejudice and discrimination surface in
very subtle ways.
- Implicit racism: racism that operates unconsciously and unintentionally. Subtle and often
implicit acts of racial discrimination can be found in just about any setting.
STEREOTYPE THREAT
In situations where a negative stereotype can apply to certain groups, members of these groups can
fear being seen “through the lens of diminishing stereotypes and low expectations” – stereotype
threat.
- Study about stereotype threat
CAUSES OF STEREOTYPE THREAT EFFECTS
