Conflicting pro-equality and anti-equality norms make Americans feel genuine internal conflict

Evidence

Because people are forced to follow a contradictory set of internalized rules about how to think, feel, and behave, it can be difficult for people to know what to do. Conformity to social norms about treatment of ethnic groups leads to prejudice in some cases but antiprejudice in others. Because most Americans conform in various situations to both norms, they feel the conflict (Devine, ch. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1904

Categorization

• DEFINE: The paragraph splits ‘prejudice norms’ from ‘egalitarian norms’ as two coexisting cultural rule sets producing felt conflict.
• XREF: connects to: The anti-Semite’s conflict mirrors a clash between prejudiced and democratic norms — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1792