Analysis of Conflict
Social identity theory can explain the formation of competing groups involved in this conflict. Looking at Arizona laws and recent presidential speeches, such as the Arizona speech, it is clear that Latino immigrants are not welcomed in this country. Both anti-immigrant laws and speech references bring attention to the racial and ethnic differences between the American population and immigrants coming from South America. In many cases it is difficult to distinguish where exactly a particular person came from, but facial features or skin color, as well as Spanish language, lead to the assumption that the person is somehow different from the majority of American population. Based on race and ethnicity people are categorized …show more content…
Adversaries tend to compete and bargain in a distributive manner, where trustworthy partners tend to collaborate and do more integrative negotiating. In their current state, immigrant and American communities are adversaries because levels of CBT and IBT are low in their relationship. The goal is to reach the state of trustworthy partners, where levels of trust are high in both categories. In order to see an improved relationship and collaboration between the immigrant and American communities, intervention methods need to work on building CBT and IBT …show more content…
This is an ongoing long term approach that can be conducted by trained volunteer facilitators. Facilitators need to be representative of the participants, culturally and ethnically. One benefit of Tamra is that it equips participants with skills needed to conduct these dialogues in their communities outside of the program. This helps to carry out continuous and ongoing intervention when it’s needed. Combined with a comprehensive reform of immigration laws in America, these recommendations can help reconcile the conflict between immigrant communities and American population with limited resources. This shared narrative among both parties can create a new generation where gradually trust can be built on shared values that the two parties discover, which leads to a common understanding focusing on similarities rather than those things that divide both communities. Only then immigrants and American public will be able to coexist without carrying the pain of historical strife and be able to thrive in this American society which is truly the land of opportunity for
Social identity theory can explain the formation of competing groups involved in this conflict. Looking at Arizona laws and recent presidential speeches, such as the Arizona speech, it is clear that Latino immigrants are not welcomed in this country. Both anti-immigrant laws and speech references bring attention to the racial and ethnic differences between the American population and immigrants coming from South America. In many cases it is difficult to distinguish where exactly a particular person came from, but facial features or skin color, as well as Spanish language, lead to the assumption that the person is somehow different from the majority of American population. Based on race and ethnicity people are categorized …show more content…
Adversaries tend to compete and bargain in a distributive manner, where trustworthy partners tend to collaborate and do more integrative negotiating. In their current state, immigrant and American communities are adversaries because levels of CBT and IBT are low in their relationship. The goal is to reach the state of trustworthy partners, where levels of trust are high in both categories. In order to see an improved relationship and collaboration between the immigrant and American communities, intervention methods need to work on building CBT and IBT …show more content…
This is an ongoing long term approach that can be conducted by trained volunteer facilitators. Facilitators need to be representative of the participants, culturally and ethnically. One benefit of Tamra is that it equips participants with skills needed to conduct these dialogues in their communities outside of the program. This helps to carry out continuous and ongoing intervention when it’s needed. Combined with a comprehensive reform of immigration laws in America, these recommendations can help reconcile the conflict between immigrant communities and American population with limited resources. This shared narrative among both parties can create a new generation where gradually trust can be built on shared values that the two parties discover, which leads to a common understanding focusing on similarities rather than those things that divide both communities. Only then immigrants and American public will be able to coexist without carrying the pain of historical strife and be able to thrive in this American society which is truly the land of opportunity for