Herman And Campbell: Attitudes Toward Interracial Relationships

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Furthermore Herman and Campbell explain that attitudes toward interracial relationships have not been able to separate global and personal attitudes. For many years, surveys of racial attitudes have included measures of approval of intermarriage as an indicator of social distance and feelings about intimate interracial contact. An important factor that offers a “relevant of differences in U.S. society is that there is a problematic link between, culture, race, and understanding the structure of society” (Herman and Campbel, 2012). This study conducted a sample of California college students to test the hypothesis if at least some racial and gender groups may be more willing to date individuals outside their racial group than marry or have

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