Personlig kontakt og svækkelse af etniske minoriteters fordomme

Abstract

Personal Contact and Reduction of Prejudice Among Ethnic Minority Members. This article examines the intergroup contact hypothesis among ethnic minority members. According to this hypothesis, contact with majority members makes ethnic minority members from both Muslim and non-Muslim countries less prejudiced toward the majority population. This hypothesis is tested using a Danish representative national sample among different ethnic minority groups fielded in 2006 (N = 3,462). The intergroup contact hypothesis finds empirical support as intergroup contact reduces prejudice toward Danish majority members among various ethnic minority groups. More generally, analyses show that intergroup contact improves ethnic minority members’ attitudes toward the majority, although ethnic-cultural background is rather strongly conducive to prejudice toward majority members.