IMPLICIT ATTITUDES TOWARD MESTIZOSAND WHITES: A TRI-NATIONAL STUDY

摘要

White university students from the US and Spain had negative implicit attitudes toward photos of Mexican Mestizos relative to Whites, but Mexican Mestizos showed no negative implicit attitudes toward either group. While this asymmetry seems consistent with previous results involving Black and White Americans' responses to Black and White faces, it is not. Black Americans split almost evenly between those who have a pro-Black Bias, a pro-White bias, and those who are neutral, so that the pro-White and pro-Black subgroups cancelled each other out. In contrast, the current study found that 93.5% of Mexican Mestizos had neutral implicit attitudes toward Whites relative to Mestizos. Unlike many Black Americans, Mexican Mestizos simply were not biased either for or against their own race relative to Whites, but 21.6% of White Americans and 46.1% of Spaniards showed negative implicit attitudes toward Mestizos.