Abstract
The main aim of this book has been to explore how national pride relates to ethnic prejudice. Building on existing qualitative and quantitative research in this area, and particularly on a rich body of qualitative research conducted on this topic in Cyprus, this study began from the following four premises: First, research that focuses on national pride and prejudice should broaden the focus to consider the variety in national but also other, overlapping (religious, cultural …) identifications made by actors; these identifications vary between contexts and need to be meaningful to the actors involved. Second, research in this area should consider the variety in ethnic out-groups that are meaningful to particular actors within a particular national context, as the relationship between national pride and prejudice can vary according to the perceived characteristics of these ethnic out-groups; this in turn depends on the specific historical relationships between these groups within a particular context. Third, research on ethnic pride and prejudice needs to take account of the underlying social-psychological mechanisms, and related theories of prejudice, that might mediate this relationship. Finally, research needs to investigate how institutional rules and regulations, characteristics of social networks and inequalities in resources, or, in other words, specific features of the broader social structure, stimulate actors to choose particular cultural scripts in describing national in- and out-groups in a particular way.
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