The name is absent

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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-
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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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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

Non-aboriginal
respondents

%
(N=.'2S9)

1.         don’t speak proper English         82.8

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

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10.         untrustworthy                       40.3

11.         strong sense of right and wrong 37.6

rank-ordering of responses refers to Aboriginal responses.

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