Ethnic prejudices are reproduced primarily through everyday conversation

Evidence

Thus, in the same way, everyday conversation is a genre, probably the most elementary and widespread genre of human interaction and discourse, typically defined by lacking the various institutional constraints mentioned above for parliamentary debates. Indeed, we virtually all have access to conversations, whereas only MPs have access to parliamentary debates. Much of what we learn about the world is derived from such everyday conversations with family members, friends, and colleagues. The same is true for ethnic prejudices and ideologies. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1074

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to van Dijk’s broader discourse-analysis work on racism and to the vault’s critical race theory material on how racism reproduces itself in mundane talk rather than only overt doctrine. — connects to: Prejudice is sustained through routine conversational identity categorization — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 508; Prejudice is routinely expressed through simultaneous denial in casual talk — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 209

Broader Connections

• Prejudice is sustained through routine conversational identity categorization #corroborates (0.95) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 508
• Prejudice is routinely expressed through simultaneous denial in casual talk #corroborates (0.85) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 209