Ethnic preferences in friendships and casual contacts between majority and minority children in the Netherlands

Fortuin, Janna; Geel, Mitch van; Žiberna, Aleš; Vedder, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.05.005

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“…This suggests that starting with facilitating and improving interethnic contacts is a better starting point. However, if teachers want adolescents experience interethnic contacts in school, just organizing mixed classrooms is not enough (Fortuin, Van Geel, Ziberna, & Vedder, 2014). Teachers can help students by providing such didactic instruments as the jigsaw method, in which students of different ethnicities are forced to work together on tasks.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining negative outgroup attitudes between native Dutch and Muslim youth in The Netherlands using the Integrated Threat Theory

Vedder

Wenink

Geel

2016

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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Explaining negative outgroup attitudes between native Dutch and Muslim youth in The Netherlands using the Integrated Threat Theory

Vedder

Wenink

Geel

2016

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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“…Research on adolescent interethnic prejudice in the Netherlands has found evidence of anti-Muslim attitudes (Van der Noll et al, 2010; Velasco González et al, 2008) and ethnic in-group favoritism (e.g., Fortuin et al, 2014; Verkuyten, 2007). This type of preference is also evident in research on sequences of social distance among ethnic groups, referred to as ethnic hierarchy.…”

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Interethnic Prejudice Against Muslims Among White Dutch Children

Bruijn

Amoureus

Emmen

et al. 2020

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Interethnic prejudice in children has been studied mostly in the United States, but less often in Europe, where the public discourse is increasingly negative about ethnic minorities, especially the Muslim minority. This study examined in-group favoritism (White preference) and out-group rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent (representing the Muslim minority) among White children in the Netherlands. Social preference for and rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent are compared with preference for and rejection of Black children. Social preference and rejection were measured using a task in which participants were presented with pictures of children with different ethnic appearances, and asked to select who they wanted to (not) play with, (not) sit next to, and invite for their birthday party. In addition, maternal implicit prejudice against people of Middle Eastern descent and explicit attitudes toward their children’s interethnic contact were assessed. The study included 140 children aged 6 to 8 years ( M = 7.26, SD = 0.77) and their mothers. The results reveal both in-group favoritism and out-group rejection. The Middle Eastern out-group was preferred less than the Black out-group. Reporting absolutely no reservations about children’s interethnic contact by mothers was associated with less rejection of children of Middle Eastern descent. Findings reveal that young children already show interethnic prejudice and that particularly people of Middle Eastern descent are devalued. The results show that maternal acceptance of child interethnic contact seems to play a role, and provide starting points for further investigation of the relation between parental and child interethnic attitudes.

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“…Homophily can be imposed by social structure, but an important source of homophily is also a preference to befriend similar peers (Kandel, 1978;Lazarsfeld & Merton, 1954;McPherson et al, 2001). Homophily preferences occur on several dimensions, including gender (Dijkstra et al, 2007;Mehta & Strough, 2009), ethnicity (Echols & Graham, 2018;Fortuin et al, 2014;Jugert et al, 2018;Moody, 2001;Quillian & Campbell, 2003;Rivas-Drake et al, 2017;Smith et al, 2014;Stark & Flache, 2012;Wittek et al, 2020), academic achievement (Flashman, 2012;Gremmen et al, 2017;Kretschmer et al, 2018), or music taste (Franken et al, 2017). In addition, recent research has found homophily mechanisms based on the position of individuals in the network; children with a structurally equivalent position in the network (e.g., friends of the same classmates or bullies of the same victims) are more likely to have a positive relationship (Echols & Graham, 2018;.…”

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Multidimensional similarity in multiplex networks: friendships between same- and cross-gender bullies and same- and cross-gender victims

Hooijsma¹,

Huitsing²,

Kisfalusi³

et al. 2020

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Similar peers are more likely to become friends, but it remains unclear how the combination of multiple characteristics, known as multidimensional similarity, influences friendships. This study aimed to investigate whether similarity in gender (attribute) and bullying or victimization (network position) contributes to friendships. The school-level networks of friendships and victim-bully relationships in 17 Dutch elementary schools (2,130 students) were examined using multiplex longitudinal social network models (RSiena). The results showed that friendships were more likely to occur between same-gender peers and between bullies sharing their targets of victimization. Multidimensional similarity (similarities in gender as well as bullying) increased the likelihood of friendships for same-gender bullies targeting the same victims, but not for same-gender victims sharing bullies. The findings underline the importance of unraveling the interplay between different dimensions of similarity for children’s relationships and surpass unidimensional similarity based on single attributes.

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Ethnic preferences in friendships and casual contacts between majority and minority children in the Netherlands

Cited by 35 publications

References 37 publications

Explaining negative outgroup attitudes between native Dutch and Muslim youth in The Netherlands using the Integrated Threat Theory

Explaining negative outgroup attitudes between native Dutch and Muslim youth in The Netherlands using the Integrated Threat Theory

Interethnic Prejudice Against Muslims Among White Dutch Children

Multidimensional similarity in multiplex networks: friendships between same- and cross-gender bullies and same- and cross-gender victims

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