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Study shows white Americans feel a special anxiety over Hispanic immigrants

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squarecut1

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The Washington Post recently reported on a study conducted by University of Michigan professors on the attitudes of white Americans towards immigrants. They used a hypothetical Mexican and a Russian immigrant for their study subjects.

The results are quite interesting and revealing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...a-on-white-anxiety-over-hispanic-immigration/

An extract:

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In addition to positive and negative stories, the survey randomly assigned each story to focus on either Jose Sanchez from Mexico or Nikolai Vandinsky from Russia, who were described in identical ways besides their name and origin. After reading the story, subjects were asked a series of questions on immigration policy.

Unsurprisingly, those who read a negatively-toned immigration story expressed less support for immigration. But the impact of seeing a negative story featuring a Mexican immigrant was double the size of a negative story about the Russian Immigrant.

Valentino and his colleagues investigated the differing reactions, and found that negative news featuring a Latino immigrant raised whites’ worries and anxieties about increasing immigration, but not for those about Russian immigrants.

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squarecut1 said:
Valentino and his colleagues investigated the differing reactions, and found that negative news featuring a Latino immigrant raised whites’ worries and anxieties about increasing immigration, but not for those about Russian immigrants.

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Maybe because people know the U.S. does not share a border with Russia and tens of thousands low skilled Russians are not pouring over the border illegally.
 
I'm white - and, I do not feel this anxiety. Also, I am pretty much surrounded by Hispanic Immigrants - as well Croatians, Turks, Italians, Greeks, Pakistanis, etc. etc. They don't cause me anxiety either.

These people polled, do they even live anywhere near Hispanics?? Or, are their fears based on the groups of Hispanic workers, waiting for work outside a Home Depot?

The biggest issue I have with this anxiety is as follows,... These immigrants are here because of work. It does not make their illegal crossing of borders OK, but they are willing to do work that pays very low, by business owners that want cheap labor. Meaning, these immigrants are being invited into this country frankly.

The American work force can't live on such low salaries. The business owners sure as hell don't want to pay any more.

Also, take a look at what happened in Georgia; http://www.theatlantic.com/business...w-costs-millions-in-unharvested-crops/240774/

They passed harsh immigration laws, and the illegal labor scattered, leaving the crops to rot. The demand for this illegal labor is generated by the business owners - illegal labor isn't showing up, trolling for social benefits, home invasions and interracial relationships.
 
rudder said:
Maybe because people know the U.S. does not share a border with Russia and tens of thousands low skilled Russians are not pouring over the border illegally.
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I bet whitey in Eastern Europe is very, very concerned over Russian immigrants while Hispanic immigrants are but a fleeting thought to them.
 
cubby1223 said:
I bet whitey in Eastern Europe is very, very concerned over Russian immigrants while Hispanic immigrants are but a fleeting thought to them.
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Actually, they are concerned over Arabs, Africans and Albanians.

I think Russians are pretty low on their xenophobia list.
 
"Whitey should feel bad about this" thread #34552. Yawn.

I do feel bad about my taxes being wasted to support useless malcontents that whittle their lives away designing and conducting studies like this when they could be doing something useful, like picking the lettuce that goes into my salad.
 
Newell Steamer said:
I'm white - and, I do not feel this anxiety. Also, I am pretty much surrounded by Hispanic Immigrants - as well Croatians, Turks, Italians, Greeks, Pakistanis, etc. etc. They don't cause me anxiety either.
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That is why perhaps you are one of the more open minded people here. I find that it is usually the ones who have spend their entire lives in their little corner of the woods that are the least tolerant. In general - there are exceptions of course.
 
nehalem256 said:
I don't know I think Ukraine might be rather concerned about former Russian soldiers illegally immigrating to their country 😛
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Ya - well, that is an invasion. :-(

If you look at Switzerland's SVP party, they have posters out that specifically target Arabs,.. Muslims in particular.

There are plenty of Nordic countries that have anti-African/anti-Muslim movements.

And, the Albanians are pretty much the Mexicans of European Mediterranean countries.
 
Well duh, they could have saved a lot of time and money. People are already experiencing a problem with illegals flooding in from one border, not from Russia. Of course they are going to have a more negative reaction to a problem they are already familiar with than one that doesn't exist.
 
Joepublic2 said:
"Whitey should feel bad about this" thread #34552. Yawn.
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A predictable response. But that wasn't my intention at all.

I found it interesting from a human, psychological point of view. About why or how we humans tend to be more fearful of anyone who is not familiar. It is not something unique to white Americans.

Thanks for your response anyway.
 
cubby1223 said:
I bet whitey in Eastern Europe is very, very concerned over Russian immigrants while Hispanic immigrants are but a fleeting thought to them.
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Newell Steamer said:
Ya - well, that is an invasion. :-(

If you look at Switzerland's SVP party, they have posters out that specifically target Arabs,.. Muslims in particular.

There are plenty of Nordic countries that have anti-African/anti-Muslim movements.

And, the Albanians are pretty much the Mexicans of European Mediterranean countries.
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Is Switzerland in Eastern Europe?
 
squarecut1 said:
A predictable response. But that wasn't my intention at all.

I found it interesting from a human, psychological point of view. About why or how we humans tend to be more fearful of anyone who is not familiar. It is not something unique to white Americans.

Thanks for your response anyway.
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So you decided we needed a thread about something everybody knows by the time they're five years old? Why don't you make a "your favorite color" poll and a "how to tie your shoes" thread next.
 
squarecut1 said:
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I found it interesting from a human, psychological point of view. About why or how we humans tend to be more fearful of anyone who is not familiar. It is not something unique to white Americans.
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I think most of us are far more familiar with Mexican/Hispanic immigrants than Russians. Where I live we've got thousands of the former and zero of the latter.

Unsurprisingly, those who read a negatively-toned immigration story expressed less support for immigration. But the impact of seeing a negative story featuring a Mexican immigrant was double the size of a negative story about the Russian Immigrant.
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IMO, not surprising at all given that the magnitude of Mexican/Hispanic immigrants is far more than just "double" that of Russians.

Fern
 
I know lots of Russian/Ukranian immigrants. There are quite a few in NE Mpls. They're legal though, I don't know a single Russian who slipped across the border in the middle of the night.

As usual, pro-illegal morons are trying to conflate legal/illegal and confuse the argument.
 
BoberFett said:
I know lots of Russian/Ukranian immigrants. There are quite a few in NE Mpls. They're legal though, I don't know a single Russian who slipped across the border in the middle of the night.
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The study is not about illegal immigrants.

There are attitudes about immigrants which go beyond the illegal debate.
 
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