Ethnocentrism can coexist with indifference, not hostility, toward out-groups

Evidence

In LeVine and Campbell’s (1972) important and underappreciated monograph, the authors maintained that ethnocentrism could fuel cooperation within the group, with little regard to the fate of out-groups. Brewer (2001) acknowledged the possibility for intergroup attitudes to turn antagonistic, particularly in contexts involving scarcity or perceived out-group threat, but as we shall see, she did not view antagonism toward out-groups as inevitable. This insight has proved valuable in understanding the results of considerable research that identified strong in-group favoritism without accompanying out-group discrimination. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1399

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the reader’s existing claims from the Allport reassessment about how group prejudice functions; in-group positivity without out-group animus challenges assumption that bias requires antipathy. — connects to: Extractors exempt themselves from local exchange cultures and show incuriosity toward inhabitants — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 241
• QUESTION: For Islamophobia/racism targets, is discrimination driven more by in-group loyalty than out-group hate? Ambivalent-prejudice theory suggests a mix worth probing.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1399