Victims of persecution develop distorting stereotypes that endanger their own survival chances

Evidence

The most provocative aspect of Jost and Banaji’s (1994) theory was that members of disadvantaged groups would themselves engage in system justification (at least under some circumstances), even at the expense of personal or collective interests and esteem. Members of disadvantaged groups should therefore internalize attitudes about themselves and each other that are more similar than dissimilar to the attitudes held by members of advantaged groups. As Allport put it, “so heavy is the prevailing cultural pressure that members of minority groups sometimes look at themselves through the same lens as other groups” (1954/1979, p. 198). Indeed, this does seem to be the case; stereotypical attitudes evince a remarkable degree of consensus across perceiver groups. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1401 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Because the ideas of the dominant tend to become the ideas of the dominated (e.g. Kluegel & Smith, 1986; MacKinnon, 1989; Marcuse, 1964; Marx & Engels, 1846; Mason, 1971), system-justifying stereotypes may be advanced by even those who stand to lose from them. The system-justification approach addresses issues of false consciousness more directly than approaches emphasizing egoor group-justification, since the former stipulates that under certain conditions people will justify the status quo at all costs, above and beyond the desire to justify their own interests or the interests of other group members. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2910 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even disadvantaged group members internalize stereotypes that harm their own interests — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2910; Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others; Prejudiced victims may either target weaker others or sympathize with fellow minorities (+6 more)

Related

• Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. (similarity 0.86)
• Even disadvantaged group members internalize stereotypes that harm their own interests (similarity 0.86)
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudice victims may become either more or less prejudiced than average against others (similarity 0.83)
• Disadvantaged groups adopt negative self-stereotypes that preserve existing social arrangements (similarity 0.83)
• Victims can internalize beliefs that actively worsen their own disadvantage. (similarity 0.81)
• Members of disadvantaged groups deny their own discrimination implicitly (similarity 0.79)
• System justification drives even disadvantaged groups to internalize inferiority (similarity 0.79)
• People stereotype themselves and their own groups to justify existing social arrangements (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Victims of inequality can unknowingly adopt beliefs that perpetuate their own disadvantage #corroborates (0.95)
• Even disadvantaged group members internalize stereotypes that harm their own interests #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2910
• Disadvantaged groups adopt negative self-stereotypes that preserve existing social arrangements #corroborates (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2867
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold #corroborates (0.90) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1401
• Prejudiced victims may either target weaker others or sympathize with fellow minorities #expands (0.80)
• Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others #expands (0.75)
• Positive stereotypes can justify a disadvantaged group’s low status #corroborates (0.75)
• Prejudice victims may become either more or less prejudiced than average against others #expands (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 969
• Victims of discrimination adapt through either externalization or internalization of blame #expands (0.70) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1048