and if'n she is, she just takes her a big-ol slug of that hot sauce she keeps in her handbag...
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 Leftists bump for later....
“Ah don’t feel no ways tahred. Ah come too far from where ah started from!”
LMAO!!! strange, I had forgotten that jewel. Thanks for the hillaryious memory!
bkmk
Been fed a bunch of hogwash in their lives so much so they can’t even function like normal human beings... Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Hell, I do this with other white people who are not as articulate. And I don't do it with any persons, including blacks, who are well-spoken. It's just polite behavior. The level of language competence can be assessed fairly quickly when you meet someone. Until you are sure, use mid-grade vocabulary and avoid idioms.
One of my pet peeves is seeing Americans with no foreign language capacity (unlike Europeans and many educated people from Africa and Asia) yelling at foreign travelers in the U.S—newsflash: yelling doesn't make language any more understandable. I speak several languages and have actually apologized to some foreign travelers who were only trying to order lunch and got yelled at by the American bozo behind the counter.
“the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
I believe it was George W Bush that said it, not Reagan.
I don't believe this propaganda for a single solitary minute.
Racists.
“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 is no basis in fact or in the article that demonstrates leftists are more “well intentioned.”
FAKE NEWS!!!
Racial bias is one way racial BS
Good point. One generally speaks the language of the listener. You do not want to speak down to or above the average level of understanding to anyone.
and if'n she is, she just takes her a big-ol slug of that hot sauce she keeps in her handbag...
“The soft bigotry of low expectations.”
You’re right — it was Bush 43.
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