Interracial dating and research

Description:Individual Characteristics What individual characteristics and motives predict cross-race friendships among children? Simulated organizations that were demographically diverse and emphasized organizational membership had more interaction between members and reported other member's demographic characteristics to be less salient than diverse and individualistically oriented organizations. For example, while no more than 11 percent of the teens surveyed thought a white-and-Hispanic or white-and-Asian couple would be ostracized by their respective racial or ethnic groups, about one-quarter of those surveyed said that a white and a black student dating each other would face problems from other white or black students in school. By Kristen Bialik In , the U. They are also more likely to date inter racially, but still, even they prefer Whites. They found that classrooms which exhibit a "status-leveling effect," such as de-emphasizing grades, standardized test scores, and curriculum, enhances cross-race friendship choices among Caucasian students. Yancey analyzed data from a national telephone survey of English and Spanish speaking U.

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