Contribuição: Wilma Ribeiro
Professora do Curso de Psicologia
Faculdade Adventista da Bahia
Meu nome é Khan! Um filme interessante para se analisar os estereótipos e o preconceito étnico. Trata-se da história de Khan (Shahrukh Khan- mesmo sobrenome na vida real), portador da síndrome de Asperger, que quando criança aprende de sua mãe muçulmana que a única diferença que existe entre seres humanos é entre bons e maus. Ao tornar-se adulto vai morar em São Francisco – EUA, casa-se com uma hindu e após o ataque às torres gêmeas – 11 de setembro de 2001 – a sua vida muda completamente. A xenofobia contra muçulmanos acaba tornando a dinâmica social e psicológica da família de Khan insuportável. A jornada de Khan que é apresentada no filme trata-se de sua tentativa de provar que não é um terrorista. Recomendo!
A estréia do filme “Os Smurfs”, em 2011, provoca lembranças infantis. E hoje, mais “consciente” do que há pelo menos vinte anos, é fácil perceber que a diferença entre a Smurfete má (morena) e a Smurfete boazinha (loira) vai além de uma mera caracterização estética, e carrega significados mais profundos (e preconceituosos).
Smurfete morena: traiçoeira, mentirosa, fingida e má. Os outros Smurfs evitavam ficar perto dela, não aceitam o convite dela para um piquenique.
Smurfete loira: recebe presentes, todos os Smurfs ficam interessados nela, e adoram-a.
Quem tiver curiosidade, ou quiser re-lembrar, existem episódios do desenho no YouTube.
This article focuses on Ken Dion’s contributions to a central issue for understanding the psychology of immigration: namely, intergroup relations and immigrants’ experiences. Immigrants face many challenges, including the experience of prejudice and discrimination directed toward them by others already residing in the society to which they have immigrated. Ken’s research focused on the perspective of those who are the targets of discrimination. After briefly describing his early seminal work on the social psychology of reported discrimination, his later contributions to this area are discussed, in particular, his involvement in interdisciplinary collaborative research pertaining to immigration which provided unique opportunities to further develop and test his ideas.
A special Latin American acculturative context is currently developing in Chile in which native Chileans have contact with several immigrant groups, particularly newcomers from Peru. This study examines several intergroup variables including contact, national and Latino American identities, group distinctiveness, realistic threat, intergroup anxiety, and acculturation preferences as predictors of prejudice on the part of both Chilean natives and Peruvian immigrants. Three hundred Peruvian immigrants (194 females and 106 males) and 300 Chileans (199 females and 101 males) participated in the study. Acculturation preferences, perceived group distinctiveness, and especially intergroup contact were shown to be important predictors of prejudice toward out-group members. Intergroup anxiety and realistic threat mediated some of these effects. The pattern of these results also varied as a function of nationality. Theoretical as well as practical implications for further research are discussed.
Recent theoretical frameworks assume that the ideological attitudes of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict individuals’ attitudes toward immigrant groups, and that these predictive relations are affected by contextual factors. Based on these assumptions, we conducted a meta-analysis of the relations between ideological attitudes and anti-immigrant attitudes in 155 samples from 17 countries (totalN= 38,522 participants). As potential correlates of cross-national differences in these relations, socioeconomic indices, cultural worldviews, and collective perceptions of immigrants were considered. RWA was a particularly strong predictor of anti-immigrant attitudes in countries where immigrants were perceived as increasing the crime rate and as not being beneficial to the economy (e.g., Germany, Italy); and SDO was a particularly strong predictor in countries with a higher relative unemployment rate of immigrants (e.g., Belgium, Sweden). We discuss the interplay of individual and sociocultural factors and offer directions for future research.
Escrito por Marcos E. Pereira 
