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ATTITUDES OF POLISH IMMIGRANTS TOWARDS PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Krystyna M. BŁESZYŃSKA1, Yehudi WEBSTER2
Social Issues – Some Examples
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (86-87) 2015, Publication date: 9 November 2015
Keywords: racism, ideology, racist behavior
Abstract The text exams the roots of racist attitudes in some groups of Poles living in the United Kingdom. Particular parts of the undertaken analysis discuss cultural, historical, political, psychological and economic backgrounds of the aforementioned behaviors. Finally three of these factors are pointed as responsible once: the economic one (economic competition with people of color living in the UK), the political one (feeling the injustice caused by the “so called positive discrimination” of whites against non-whites at the labor market), and the psychological one (feeling of marginalization and social depreciation). Concluding, the text shows the behaviors defined as manifestations of racism don’t need to be associated with real racism and its ideology.
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
E-mail: kbleszynska@yahoo.com
California State University, Los Angeles, USA