9.Addressing identity Addressing racism and The discourse of issues prejudice requires reflecting nationalism is frequently on our own identity. Two used to undermine the identities have been linked legitimacy of minority to prejudice. National group identifications, with Identity and the hidden minorities viewed as identity of Whiteness divisive and threatening In Australia, people who score higher on nationalism are more prejudiced against Indigenous Australians, asylum seekers and muslim Australians Useful for antii-prejudice training to examine the meaning of being ‘Australian’and how inclusive this is 10.Finding alternate The role of language in Need further research on talk maintaining relationships, conversation skills or people often increase or strategies that are maintain their relationship effective in dealing with status by using prejudiced prejudiced talk. See conversations or jokes bystander intervention section. 11.Taking into Participants values, their Addressing people’s account function of experiences and what they violated personal values, attitudes such as learn indirectly are and working with indirect values and important sources of sources of experience experience attitudes (such as the media and social networks) to change prejudice attitudes. 12.Use multiple It is preferable to have Prejudice and racism need voices from multiple multiple voices from to be tackled from a disciplines. multiple disciplines and number or angles and any repeating major points one discipline does not have all the answers. 13.Interventions are Having time to reflect on A longer format for more likely to be issues is important. interventions has been successful if there is found to be more the time to go into effective. depth into the issues.
9.Addressing identity issues Addressing racism and prejudice requires reflecting on our own identity. Two identities have been linked to prejudice. National Identity and the hidden identity of Whiteness The discourse of nationalism is frequently used to undermine the legitimacy of minority group identifications, with minorities viewed as divisive and threatening In Australia, people who score higher on nationalism are more prejudiced against Indigenous Australians, asylum seekers and muslim Australians Useful for antii-prejudice training to examine the meaning of being ‘Australian’and how inclusive this is 10.Finding alternate talk The role of language in maintaining relationships, people often increase or maintain their relationship status by using prejudiced conversations or jokes Need further research on conversation skills or strategies that are effective in dealing with prejudiced talk. See bystander intervention section. 11.Taking into account function of attitudes such as values and experience Participants values, their experiences and what they learn indirectly are important sources of attitudes Addressing people’s violated personal values, and working with indirect sources of experience (such as the media and social networks) to change prejudice attitudes. 12.Use multiple voices from multiple disciplines. It is preferable to have multiple voices from multiple disciplines and repeating major points Prejudice and racism need to be tackled from a number or angles and any one discipline does not have all the answers. 13.Interventions are more likely to be successful if there is the time to go into depth into the issues. Having time to reflect on issues is important. A longer format for interventions has been found to be more effective.
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