Napotism: A Theory Created In A Multi-Ethnic Society

“你好” “Merhaba” “Hola” “Hello”. American schools have been housing more than one race, accepting students of different ethnicities. With a total population in America of 311, 591, 917, 14.8 million teenagers will be attending high schools. 60% of those students attending high schools are of multiple ethnicities, most of which being Caucasian, African Americans, and Hispanics. Amongst these students grows a tendency to prefer being surrounded by their own race, this tendency is called ethnic nepotism. In a multi-ethnic society people group with their own ethnicity due to ethnic nepotism.

Ethnic nepotism is a theory created in the 1960’s by Pierre L. Van Den Berghe. This term emerged from describing rivalry between tribes to emphasizing that in a society with mixed race there is a tendency in individuals utilizing nepotism to favor one’s ethnicity. In able to demonstrate the ethnic nepotism that surrounds us on an average day data must be utilized. The most recent study to be found that focuses on race and ethnic origin was made in May, 1995 from the Bureau of Labor statistics by Clyde Tucker, Brian Kojetin, and Roderick Harrison. …show more content…
Some of the teenagers do it because of the reasons stated above but another reasonable amount of them do it because of ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism plays an important role in ethnic nepotism. Its one of the biggest reasons why people resort to ethnic nepotism. Ethnocentrism occurs in ethnic nepotism when a person thinks less of a different ethnic group. As stated in a research paper from the University of Michigan “Ethnocentrism is a nearly universal syndrome of attitudes and behaviors. The attitudes include seeing ones own group (the in-group) as virtuous and superior and an out-group as contemptible and inferior”. Teenagers don’t realize it but at a certain point they all find themselves superior to a different culture in some