Culture, Race and Community: Making it Work in the New Millennium
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Prejudice (i.e. unjustified feelings of dislike or hatred towards members of ethnic minority groups) has long been a significant social problem in ethnically diverse countries (Brown, 1995). Indeed, contrary to earlier reports that prejudice was systematically declining, recent evidence suggests that prejudice may simply be being expressed in new disguises, and may actually be increasing (e.g. Dovidio & Gaertner, 1991; Duckitt, 1991; Pettigrew & Meertens, 1995).
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