Subtle and blatant prejudice towards indigenous in Argentina

ETCHEZAHAR, E.; UNGARETTI, J.; BARREIRO, A.

Madrid

Conferencia; CiCea / Jean Monnet CiCe Network conference: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice: Innovation, Practices and Research; 2016

Jean Monnet CiCe Network

This study investigated subtle and blatant prejudice toward indigenous people in Argentina and its relationship with right wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and left-right ideological self-placement. The research was conducted with a sample of 249 adults from Buenos Aires, selected by a non-probabilistic incidental method. The participants were aged from 18 to 41 years. They filled a self-administered questionnaire including an Argentinean version of the subtle and blatant prejudice toward indigenous scale, together with right wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and left-right ideological self-placement scales. All scales follows a 5 point Likert-type rating scale. The results indicate higher levels of subtle (M = 16,48; SD = 3,9) than blatant (M = 13,15; SD = 4,1) prejudice toward indigenous and no sex differences in both subtle (t(230) = .337; p = .739) and blatant (t(228) = -.476; p = .635). Moreover, significant positive correlations were found between both subtle and blatant prejudice toward indigenous, with right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation (.31 < r < .39; p < .01). Also, significant positive correlation was found between subtle and blatant prejudice toward indigenous and right ideological self-placement (.18 < r < .32; p < .01). These findings pointed out that, despite legal developments for the social inclusion of indigenous people in Argentina, prejudice is still a problem that needs to be solved in order to improve integroup relations between minority and majority groups.