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- Title: An Examination of Post 9-11 Attitudes Towards Arab Americans (Report)
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 191 KB
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been a backlash of public opinion towards Arab Americans as a whole (Skitka, Bauman, Aramovich,&Morgan, 2006) that has only exacerbated the preexisting stereotypes of this population (see Erickson&Al-Timimi, 2001 and Nobles&Sciarra, 2000). While current national security measures have been put in place to make the country safer from future acts of terrorism (see Miller, 2004 for example), these same measures may indirectly reinforce long-held stereotypes and prejudices toward Arab Americans. For example, the Coalition for Secure Driver Licenses recently launched a billboard campaign in two states in which a blatant racial stereotype (an Arab individual in traditional garb holding hand grenades and sporting heavy weapons with Arabic script running along the border) was used, potentially inciting even more fear and distrust toward Arab Americans (Leinwand, 2005). Crandall, Eshleman, and O'Brien (2002) found that people are more likely to express prejudicial attitudes if social norms are in place to indicate that such prejudice is acceptable. Although their data were collected before 9-11, Crandall et al. (2002) found that the group "terrorists" was very high on the list of personal and acceptable prejudices (5th from the top), but that the group "Iraqi soldiers" was near the middle of the list (right above "politicians"). When their data were
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