POL SCI 137A Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Acculturation, Ethnocentrism, Chauvinism
21 Jan 2017
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Xenophobic rhetoric and its poltiical effects on immigrants and their co-ethnics. Investigate connection between x rhetoric and latino politics. 2 challenges limit knowledge of link between x rhetoric and immigrant politics (1) uncertainty over concept of x rhetoric (2) psychological mechanisms behind immigrant reactions unclear. Def x rhetoric: pol communication that raises salience of ethnic identity while devaluing its worth. Argue: reactions based on individual identification with ethnic ingroup. T1: politician draws attention to illegal immigration: raise salience of latino identity. T2: politician draws attention to same issue and makes negative allegations: raise salience and impugning latino identity"s worth. High identifiers become less pol trusting, more ethnocentric and more supportive of pro group policies > stronger among less acculturated latinos. What we know and don"t about anti-immigrant contexts. Immigratns" political reaction to x rhetoric: social identity approach. Sit: individuals motivated to uphold a positive self image, one way by preserving positive distinctiveness of groups he/ she belongs to.
