American society holds no single anti-prejudice norm across all groups

Evidence

One implication of dynamic social-impact theory for conformity and prejudice is that different groups in a society will have different patterns of prejudices. It would be a mistake to suggest that, for example, US culture has a strong norm against having prejudices based on race and religion. Some groups in the US have powerful norms suppressing these kinds of prejudices, and others do not (Ezekiel, 1996). Different social groups, living in different places, will have a stable set of prejudices and beliefs (that may conflict with the dominant social view in society), and people in contact with a subgroup will conform to the norms close around them, rather than the general norms that describe American values. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1911

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panics and social-norms literature on how localized beliefs diverge from mainstream culture.