Culture’s competing prejudiced and anti-prejudice norms drive bias into subtle forms.

Evidence

As Fiske and Molm go on to argue, ‘even well-intentioned people are … infl uenced by the culture’s prejudiced portrayals, as well as by culture’s anti-prejudice norms. The internal confl ict drives people’s biases into more subtle forms’ (ibid.). Moreover, subtle prejudice, ‘in all its guises … predicts everyday discrimination: uncomfortable encounters, avoidance, self-fulfi lling prophecies, and ingroup-favoring decisions in voting, housing, education, and employment’ (ibid., p. 344). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism mirrors the tension from Chapter 1 about how tolerant-sounding norms still produce exclusionary behavior.

Related

• Not all prejudices are alike; each is culturally situated (similarity 0.82)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.81)
• Contradictory cultural norms force individuals into conflicting prejudiced and egalitarian stances. (similarity 0.81)
• Modern anti-prejudice norms only drive prejudice underground, not reduce it (similarity 0.80)
• Tolerant and prejudiced discourses coexist within the same societies. (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudice is explained by societal characteristics, not only individual traits (similarity 0.80)
• Beneficial social change breeds subtle prejudice while losses breed open hostility (similarity 0.80)
• Expression of prejudice diverges from private belief depending on perceived social norms. (similarity 0.79)
• Understanding prejudice requires locating attitudes in collective symbolic contexts (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice is deliberately mobilized by elites for strategic gain, not merely implicit cognition (similarity 0.79)
• Pervasive prejudice still takes distinct forms across different societies (similarity 0.79)
• All prejudice involves intergroup relations with a built-in ingroup preference (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudiced people mostly manage inner conflict by vacillating between values (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.79)