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Literature Review on Coping with Social Prejudice

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that the cure for such feelings is integration., However, when we consider the recent studies there is also an emphasis on the need for cultural identity and the recognising of  each races heritage as valuable. Therefore, if we are going to consider the ways in which we need to resolve these issues and prevent racial tension from becoming problematic we  need to consider the origins of these feeling and how they may be minimised if not eliminated. A starting point may be to understand how different racial identities are formed.  As this is the background against which racists actions will take place, and the relevant feelings of resentment or aggravation will develop. We can consider the racial identity model  and see that there are a wide range of relevant issues that are included in this. Most notably is the aspect that by the time a an individual reaches adolescence  they have already developed their racial and ethnical attitudes towards themselves as well as others. In interviews that took place with over 500 different individuals of different ethic backgrounds,  from African-American to Mexican and even Columbian children among others, all located within the US and Latin America there were some distinct patterns that were shown (Link, 2002). Between the  ages of three and six there are some interesting attitudes. These may be seen as both naive and also in a time before racial identity, along with potential preconceptions, has  developed. There is a strong ideas in these children that race is a characteristic that can be changed, for example, that skin colour was effected by the sun, or that  there was a possibly for surgery to change skin colour (Link, 2002). There are even ideas that colour may be changes when washing long or hard enough. By the time