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Ethnic Minority Teens Less Keen to Hang Out With Ethnic Peers
It was also found that for most Asian students, being part of an ethnically oriented crowd at school was linked with mostly positive characteristics (such as pride in one's ethnic background). And in case of Latino students it was associated with a mixed group of characteristics (some pride, but also some feelings of discrimination and stereotyping).
In the study, the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dartmouth College, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, polled 2,465 African American, Asian American, and Latino teenagers ages 14 to 19 attending seven public high schools in the midwestern and western United States.
They provided the students with a list of the crowds most commonly mentioned by other teens at their school and asked them to mention the one they identified with most closely. Also, a group of students placed all their classmates (including those initially polled) into crowds; the researchers then looked for characteristics that distinguished adolescents who were part of ethnically oriented crowds from adolescents who were part of non-ethnic crowds.
It was discovered that ethnic crowd affiliation was not widespread, particularly among biracial youth. Only about 30 percent of the teenagers were placed by peers in ethnically oriented crowds, and only half of them linked with such crowds. Teens in the ethnic categories studied tended to be placed by peers, and to place themselves, in crowds that were not defined ethnically.
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