How ethnic differences such as race and culture lead to discrimination towards Gypsies in Bulgaria The conflicts between groups are everyday experience for all of us. The origin of a conflict could have a very broad range – from basic differences like race and cultural diversity, gender, age, personal beliefs and sexual orientation to more narrow features of the personality like music or literature preferences, political views, involvement in sports and clothing style. Those are just a small part of the things people could find different between themselves, and each of them puts us in multiple separate social groups with others sharing the same inclinations. Being part of this natural process automatically means that there are groups
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Certain prejudice understandings are often learnt at an early age within the home environment, in school, or later on at the working place. The level of depth, in witch this problem occurs is the reason that the conflict is not likely to disappear in the recent future. The widely spread thinking towards the Gypsy community leads to natural avoidance from one of the groups to the other. Precisely that is the reason why the mechanism of the intergroup contact hypothesis would be a very useful tool for desolving the negative outgroup opinions. However, the sole use of the hypothesis will not be sufficient enough to remove the old prejudice mindset of Bulgarian citisents. In order to do that the education of the younger generation needs to takes part as well. It has to include lessons on tolerance and multiculturalism. Bulgarian organisations from the non-government sector could work together for educational programs targeting racist stereotypes and discrimination, and to include the history of that minority in the school …show more content…
Reference section
1 Krueger, Joachim I. ; Didonato, Theresa E. Social categorization and the perception of groups and group differences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2008, Vol.2(2)
2 Kassin, Saul M. ; Fein, Steven ; Markus, Hazel Rose.Tenth edition. United Kingdom: Cengage Learning 2016
3 Linville, Patricia W. ; Jones, Edward E. Manis, Melvin (editor) Polarized appraisals of outgroup members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980, Vol.38(5
4 Marushiakova, E.; Popov, V. Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria, Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang Verlag, 1997.
5 Michael A. Hogg, Graham M. Vaughan 2014. Social psychology
6 National Statistical Institute – Bulgaria; http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2011final.pdf.
7 Silverman, C. (1986). "Bulgarian Gypsies: Adaptation in a Socialist Context." Nomadic Peoples 21-22 (special issue):51-62.
8 Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. The social psychology of intergroup
Certain prejudice understandings are often learnt at an early age within the home environment, in school, or later on at the working place. The level of depth, in witch this problem occurs is the reason that the conflict is not likely to disappear in the recent future. The widely spread thinking towards the Gypsy community leads to natural avoidance from one of the groups to the other. Precisely that is the reason why the mechanism of the intergroup contact hypothesis would be a very useful tool for desolving the negative outgroup opinions. However, the sole use of the hypothesis will not be sufficient enough to remove the old prejudice mindset of Bulgarian citisents. In order to do that the education of the younger generation needs to takes part as well. It has to include lessons on tolerance and multiculturalism. Bulgarian organisations from the non-government sector could work together for educational programs targeting racist stereotypes and discrimination, and to include the history of that minority in the school …show more content…
Reference section
1 Krueger, Joachim I. ; Didonato, Theresa E. Social categorization and the perception of groups and group differences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2008, Vol.2(2)
2 Kassin, Saul M. ; Fein, Steven ; Markus, Hazel Rose.Tenth edition. United Kingdom: Cengage Learning 2016
3 Linville, Patricia W. ; Jones, Edward E. Manis, Melvin (editor) Polarized appraisals of outgroup members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980, Vol.38(5
4 Marushiakova, E.; Popov, V. Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria, Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang Verlag, 1997.
5 Michael A. Hogg, Graham M. Vaughan 2014. Social psychology
6 National Statistical Institute – Bulgaria; http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2011final.pdf.
7 Silverman, C. (1986). "Bulgarian Gypsies: Adaptation in a Socialist Context." Nomadic Peoples 21-22 (special issue):51-62.
8 Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. The social psychology of intergroup