Multiculturalism, culture mixing, and prejudice: Effects of priming Chinese diversity models among Hong Kong university students

Multiculturalism, culture mixing, and prejudice: Effects of priming Chinese diversity models among Hong Kong university students

• Ye, Tianfang Frank The Education University of Hong Kong
• Buchtel, Emma Ellen Kathrina The Education University of Hong Kong

Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2021

Frontiers Media

2021

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Social Distance Culture Mixing Cultural Identity Multiculturalism Assimilation

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

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In two studies, we investigated how Hong Kong university students reacted to descriptions of China as multicultural vs. assimilatory, examining effects on emotions, prejudice toward Mainland Chinese, attitudes toward Hong Kong/China culture mixing, and cultural identities. Study 1 compared a multicultural priming condition to a control condition and found that the multiculturalism prime significantly reduced desire to socially distance from Mainland Chinese. Study 2 compared multiculturalism, assimilation, or control primes’ effects, and found that the multiculturalism prime, through increased positive emotions, indirectly reduced social distancing from Mainland Chinese and disgust toward culture mixing, and increased Chinese ethnic identity and multicultural identity styles; the assimilation prime had the opposite indirect effects through increasing negative emotions. Results show new evidence of the importance of emotion in how non-immigrant regional groups, who are both minority and majority culture members, react to different diversity models. Multicultural frames increased positive emotions, with downstream positive effects on both intergroup attitudes and integrated identities. Copyright © 2021 Ye and Buchtel.

• English

Journal Articles

• 16641078

• 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691858

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/e48ca53e

2021-11-05