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'Whites suffer more racism than blacks': Study shows white American people believe they are more discriminated against
By Daily Mail Reporter
White Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, a new study reveals.
Sociologists
from Harvard and Tufts universities asked 209 white and 208 black men
and women to rate 'racism' against both ethnic groups since the 1950s on
a scale of one to 10.
The results showed that while both
blacks and whites saw anti-black racism decreasing over the decades,
whites saw race relations as a 'zero sum game' where they were losing
out as blacks 'gained' the advantage.
Racism: A group of American whites perceived they were more discriminated against than blacks
Michael Norton (left) and Samuel R Sommers
conducted the research into perceptions of racism to analyse theories
about 'post racial' America
The results, published in the journal Perspectives on
Psychological Science, showed that on average blacks saw anti-white bias
rising slightly from 1.4 in the 1950s to 1.8 today.
Blacks also perceived that racism against themselves had steeply declined from 9.7 in the 1950s to 6.1 in the 90s.
White respondents, however, saw a very different picture.
For
the 2000s, 11 per cent of whites gave anti-white bias the maximum 10
out of 10 rating, compared with only two per cent of whites who did so
for anti-black bias.
Whites believed that discrimination against them had increased from an average of 1.8 in the 1950s to 4.7 in the 2000s.
All those surveyed were asked: 'Indicate how much you think blacks/whites were/are the victims of discrimination in the United
States in each of the following decades.'
Responding to the
results, researchers Michael Norton and Samuel Sommers said that despite
predictions that Barack Obama's election in 2008 would herald a 'post
racial' America, this had not in fact occurred.
They
concluded: 'A flurry of legal and cultural disputes over the past decade
has revealed a new race-related controversy gaining traction: an
emerging belief in anti-white prejudice.
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Whites believe that discrimination against them has increased from an average of 1.8 in the 1950's to 4.7 in the 2000s.
'Whites believe...the pendulum has now swung beyond equality in the direction of anti-white discrimination.'
'Whites
think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but
whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a
new inequality—at their expense.'
Citing several studies, researchers speculated that white people tended to see any focus on ethnic minorities as an 'attack' on white values.
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