Posted on 11/26/2018 10:53:14 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Racial bias can put people of color at a disadvantage when interviewing for a job, buying a house, or interacting with the police. New research suggests that bias may also shape daily interactions between racial minorities and white people, even those whites who tend to be less biased.
According to new research by Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale SOM, white liberals tend to downplay their own verbal competence in exchanges with racial minorities, compared to how other white Americans act in such exchanges. The study is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
While many previous studies have examined how people who hold racial bias behave in multi-racial settings, few have studied how whites who are more well-intentioned interact with people of other races. “There’s less work that explores how well-intentioned whites try to get along with racial minorities,” Dupree says. “We wanted to know their strategies for increasing connections between members of different social groups—and how effective these strategies are.”
Dupree and her co-author, Susan Fiske of Princeton University, began by analyzing the words used in campaign speeches delivered by Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to different audiences over the years. They scanned 74 speeches delivered by white candidates over a 25-year period. Approximately half were addressed to mostly-minority audiences—at a Hispanic small business roundtable discussion or a black church, for example. They then paired each speech delivered to a mostly-minority audience with a comparable speech delivered at a mostly-white audience—at a mostly-white church or university, for example. The researchers analyzed the text of these speeches for two measures: words related to competence (that is, words about ability or status, such as “assertive” or “competitive”) and words related to warmth (that is, words about friendliness, such as “supportive” and “compassionate”).
Warmth, related to intentions towards others, and competence, related to the ability to carry out those intentions, are two fundamental dimensions of how we see others and portray ourselves in social interactions. Stereotypical portrayals of black Americans generally show them as being less competent than their white counterparts, but not necessarily less friendly or warm, Dupree explains.
The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences. The difference wasn’t statistically significant in speeches by Republican candidates, though “it was harder to find speeches from Republicans delivered to minority audiences,” Dupree notes. There was no difference in Democrats’ or Republicans’ usage of words related to warmth. “It was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted behavior.”
With this preliminary evidence in hand, the researchers set out to further test their ideas.
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White liberals patronize the hell out of minorities.
They just need the refresher course in ebonics studies to understand
“Wait ‘till Otis sees us.....HE LOVES US!”
So, they needed an academic study to prove that white liberals are condescending?
Hillary in Selma, AL: Weeee aaannt no wayze tiyuurd! :)
Exactly.
And yet blacks still vote Democrat 80-90% of the time.
I guess they like being talked-down to.
We’re cool, I speak Jive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s
Or maybe it is just a bad day to stop sniffing glue.
“White liberals patronize the hell out of minorities.”
No kidding. If you want see it demonstrated with humor watch Vanessa on Last Man Standing when she interacts with her black neighbors, the Larabees. Funny stuff.
At work, I tried to treat all people the same. Seeing and treating people (black, white, man, woman) the same way keeps you out of trouble. Honestly, it was easier to do this with black people than it was with women people. Women sometimes cry when you chew them out.
Talking to people of color like they’re cute pets makes me feel superior to White people who don’t share my tastes, beliefs, and lifestyle......that’s Liberalism in a nutshell.
This is why I have no problem with Trump calling Omarosa a dog. He deals with individuals based on the content of their character.
White Liberals do not project competence to anyone. They are not about selling intellectual competence in anything. Their sales book is all about selling images. They trade in images, not ideas.
I thought the study was on liberals. I'm not familiar with wannabe fascist tyranny being considered a good intention, except by Nazis. Oh, wait.....never mind....
See the movie “Get Out.”
The left has always believed that minorities are incompetent
Reagan perfectly summed up this kind of liberal condescension as “the soft bigotry of low expectations”.
Obama (the 1/2-white liberal) always starts droppin’ his G’s when he’s around black folks. And starts usin’ the word “folks.”
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