Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the Netherlands

Intergroup contact and prejudice between Dutch majority and Muslim minority youth in the Netherlands.

“…Multiculturalism combines the recognition of distinctiveness of cultures, national unity or social cohesion, and nondiscrimination (Boog, 2014). Multiculturalism is favored more strongly by minority youth than by Dutch majority youth, who may even perceive multiculturalism as threatening to the benefits of their relatively more favorable social position (van Geel & Vedder, 2011; Verkuyten & Martinovic, 2006).…”

“…Being aware of an ingroup member’s having had a negative experience with an outgroup member may influence outgroup attitudes in the same way that the awareness of an indirect positive outgroup contact experience does. Observing or knowing about unfriendly or even hostile intergroup interactions between the majority Dutch and minority Muslims is far from uncommon in the Netherlands (Boog, 2014; Savelkoul, Scheepers, Tolsma, & Hagendoorn, 2011). The current study includes positive and negative, direct as well as extended, intergroup contact experiences and aims to investigate their relationship with adolescents’ intergroup attitude.…”

The relation between the bifactor model of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory and conduct problems in adolescence: Variations across gender, ethnic background, and age.

“…The stronger role of the Affective dimension in the immigrant groups may reflect anger about negative experiences, such as discrimination, particularly in the non-Western immigrant group (Berry & Vedder, 2016), or not being able to live up to parental expectations, more characteristic of Western immigrant youth (Vogels, Gijsberts, & Den Draak, 2014). Higher scores on the items regarding lack of remorse and callousness may reflect youths’ attempts to cope with this anger and avoid that others see their anger, because this might attract negative attention (i.e., further discrimination or rejection; Boog, 2014; Vedder, Wenink, & Van Geel, 2016).…”