Ethnic frictions and status rivalries shape prejudice more than ideology does

Evidence

It was time, I told my Catholic audience, to look at the fabric of society: time to study interactions, not just attitudes, and so to throw light on the overall structure of a multi-ethnic social order. … We were neglecting, for example, frictions between minorities, comparative rates of social and geographical mobility within the United States, tendencies of older Americans to side with some minorities against others, and the striking differences in the acceptance of particular immigrant groups in one part of the country as opposed to another. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2016

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves reader’s divergence question: professed conviction vs. measured bias — Higham argues actual intergroup friction tracks status competition, not belief systems. — connects to: Prejudice motivates perceived group differences rather than emerging from them — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 892; Prejudice stems from distinct threat and competition motives — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2492; Prejudice propagates when privileged groups stand to gain from exploiting minorities — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1480 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Prejudice motivates exaggerated group differences, not the reverse. #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 892
• Prejudice stems from distinct threat and competition motives #corroborates (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2492
• Prejudice motivates perceived group differences rather than emerging from them #expands (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 892
• Prejudice magnifies real group differences, not imagined ones #complicates (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 892
• Prejudice propagates when privileged groups stand to gain from exploiting minorities #expands (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1480
• Prejudice gains power from shared identity, leadership, and politics, not individual bias #contradicts (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 397