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20.8 Typifications by Aborigines

20.81 Hypothesis

It was hypothesized that there would be evidence of institutionalization
of tyρifications, that is, that Aborigines will have internalised
the typifications of Aborigines held by the dominant group.

20.82 Aboriginal response to Schedule I

(i) Aborigines stereotype Aborigines in general

∙∙ ∙ TABLE '12

Aborigines stereotype Aborigines in general
compared with stereotyping of Aborigines by
non-Aborigines

Rank                                 Aboriginal

order    Item stereotype             response

(N = 93)

Of

Non-Aboriginal
response

(N = 289)

Of

*6


3.

*4.

5.

6.

7.

8.


9.

*10.


11.


drink too much

often in trouble with
police

often in debt
friendly
waste money
quick-tempered
don’t keep jobs
don’t care for
possessions
aggressive, pick fights
strong sense of right
and wrong

don’t speak proper English


78.7             82.2 x

72.1             84.2

64.5             72.S

53.2            44.6 unfriendly

49.5            74.1

45.7            68.4

45.2            65.9


45.2            68.5

45.1            77.3

poor sense of

40.8            59.7  right and wrong

39.6            59.4


Aborigines stereotyped ’Aborigines’ negatively on nine items.
Thestarreditems, ’friendly’ and ’strong sense of right and wrong’, were
the only items not stereotyped negatively.

On nine of the seventeen itemsi Aboriginal people have
institutionalized the negative typifications of Tnainstream society.



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