Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility
Evidence
Although one can document expressions of direct hostility or attributions of extreme negative qualities to Roma in text and talk, a closer inspection shows that anti-Roma prejudice is much more complex. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 468
Related
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.88)
- Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.86)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.86)
- Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.85)
- Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.83)
- Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.82)
- Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.81)
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.81)
- Most racism is lukewarm and ambivalent rather than violently hateful (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.80)
- Extreme prejudice needs a framework of reasonableness to be persuasive (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Gypsyism as active hostility must be tackled separately from structural exclusion measures (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are framed not just as outsiders but as a distinct moral universe (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.79)
- Dehumanizing talk draws on shared cultural repertoires rather than individual antipathy (similarity 0.79)