Romaphobia among adolescents : the role of perceived threat, nationalism, and acculturation expectations
Ljujic, V.
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Ljujic, V. (2011, December 14). Romaphobia among adolescents : the role of perceived threat, nationalism, and acculturation expectations. Retrieved from
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Romaphobia among adolescents: The role of perceived threat, nationalism and acculturation expectations
door Vanja Ljujic
1. In most of Europe, the Roma share similar brunt of disadvantageous status and prejudice (Ringold, Orenstein & Wilkens, 2005).
2. Threats lie at the heart of prejudice (Stephan, 1999).
3. Reciprocal relationships between nationalism and Romaphobia are limited to conditions in which groups compete over scarce resources (this thesis).
4. One’s desire to limit either cultural, or socio-economic inclusion of the Roma, reflects anticipation that Roma threaten national values, and that
disproportional social benefits would be spent on the Roma (this thesis).
5. One’s wish to preserve a dominant group status in face of economic instability overshadows one’s desire to reduce the salience of intercultural differences (this thesis).
6. Contact opportunities and perceived threat have diametrically opposite relationships with prejudice (Wagner, Van Dick, Pettigrew & Christ, 2006).
7. Familiarity decreases threat perceptions (Schneider, 2008).
8. Future interventions for combating Romaphobia in schools must counter negative expectations embodied in perceived threat and facilitate more favorable evaluations of inter-group relationships (this thesis).
9. The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer (Allport, 1955).
10. Meeting one Roma a day keeps Romaphobia away.
