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In sum, it is noteworthy that a ’world’ that is seen to have a
strongly negative view of Aborigines is not, in retaliation, stereo-
*
typed negatively. One would expect that, at the least, Australians
would be seen as unfriendly by Aborigines. In fact they are rated by
56.0 per cent as friendly.
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V
Conclusion ... .
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The hypothesis that Aborigines would stereotype Australians
negatively was not supported.
20.82 ( v) Aborigines stereotype. Italians
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If was hypothesized that since Italians are a minority ethnic group,
who are not political migrants, but come from economically depressed
areas in Italy, Aborigines would see them (1) as a group near to
them on the social scale and hence to be rejected, (2) as a migrant
group taking jobs rightfully belonging to Aborigines and hence to
be rejected.
TABLE 18
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Aboriginal stereotyping of Italians compared
with non-Aboriginal stereotyping of Italians
Rank order Item stereotyped
Aboriginal
respondents
%
(N=.93)
Non-aboriginal
respondents
%
(N=.'2S9)
1. don’t speak proper English 82.8
82.8
66.8
60.8
65.7
61.9
59.7
61.2
58.1
50.1
36.6
42.8
2. care for possessions 74.3
3. careful with money 64.5
4. good parents 63.4
5, good providers 59.2
6. know where they are going
(purpose in life) 58.1
7. quick-tempered 58.0
8. motivated to get somewhere 53.8
9, clean and tidy 41.8
к
10. untrustworthy 40.3
11. strong sense of right and wrong 37.6
1The
rank-ordering of responses refers to Aboriginal responses.