Nation-level reconciliation actions can follow from collective guilt
Evidence
In some nations, methods of reconciling with the past have been actively pursued and form a focal issue for the governments of those nations. In Australia, the issue of whether the Prime Minister, as the offi- cial representative of the federal government, should or should not issue a formal apology has been center stage, and a national “Sorry Day” has been instituted as a means of addressing the past treatment of Indigenous Australians (see Augoustinos & LeCouteur, this volume, Chapter 13; McGarty & Bliuc, this volume, Chapter 7). The Canadian federal parliament has likewise publicly addressed the historical treatment of its Native peoples. The new territory of Nunavut was created in 1999, which entailed the return of more than a million square miles of Arctic lands to be selfgoverned by its Native peoples. Widespread feelings of collective guilt stemming from the perceived injustice of these nations’ historical treatment of their Native peoples appear to have played an important role in creating such social change. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 78
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Widely shared collective guilt has produced formal apologies and reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 54; Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 65; Collective guilt can be functional by motivating reparative action — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 229 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Collective guilt functions adaptively by motivating reparation and preventing repeated intergroup conflict
#expands(0.93) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 87 - Collective guilt can be functional by motivating reparative action
#expands(0.92) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 229 - Collective guilt motivates repair and compensation just as personal guilt does
#expands(0.90) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 564 - Collective guilt requires admitting in-group responsibility and spurs reparations
#expands(0.85) — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the In-group, 65 - Collective guilt correlates strongly with perceived reparation obligations toward Indigenous Australians
#expands(0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 818 - Collective guilt predicts reparative motivation while collective shame predicts distancing.
#expands(0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 346 - Collective guilt acceptance is a validated measure mediating inequality salience and reparations
#expands(0.82) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 148