When glory-based pride fails, high identifiers shift to humanitarian self-stereotypes

Evidence

For high Australian identifers, the history of dispossession of the Indigenous population does not provide particularly fertile ground for a positive social identity. The legal basis for the colonial occupation of Australia by Britain was that it was land that was unoccupied by other people. The exposure of this falsehood made it difficult to present the extension of White settlement as a positive, heroic achievement. High Australian identifiers are therefore likely to look elsewhere to sustain a positive social identity. One rich avenue has been Australians’ historical self-stereotype as easygoing, egalitarian, and as espousing humanitarian values. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 838

Categorization

• XREF: Directly foreshadows the glorification vs. attachment distinction: Australians excluded from a glory-route must find another positive-identity route, setting up non-comparative attachment. — connects to: Stigmatized people compensate for devalued attributes by overperforming elsewhere — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 964; Stigmatized people disengage self-worth from domains where they face bias; People stereotype themselves and their own groups to justify existing social arrangements — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2960

Broader Connections

• People stereotype themselves and their own groups to justify existing social arrangements #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2960
• Stigmatized people disengage self-worth from domains where they face bias #expands (0.73)
• Stigmatized people compensate for devalued attributes by overperforming elsewhere #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 964