The Sensitive-Area Complex

A visitor's attitudes toward and images of an alien culture are affected by his perception of the host culture's view of the status of his own country. The visitor perceives hostility as an active component of low-status ascription when interaction includes verbal references to certain "sensitive areas." The latter are the subjects of long-standing criticism of his culture by colonial powers, the mere mention of which recalls the historical hostility. These perceived assaults enhace his personal identification with the prestige of his home country, and he reacts by erecting a set of mechanisms in defense and praise of his country

Aesthetics · Art · Ascription · Colonialism · Criticism · Epistemology · Hostility · Identification (biology) · Linguistics · Perception · Political science · Praise · Prestige · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Visitor pattern · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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• Equal-status interracial contact

  Open Access•Cornelius Riordan•International Journal of…•1978

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• A Comparison of South‐East Asian and Australian First‐Year Students' Views on University

  Open Access•Geraldine Hynes, Geraldine E Hynes et al.•Australian Journal of Social Issues•1971

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• Interpersonal Contact and Racial Prejudice

  Open Access•Wen L Li, Linda Yu et al.•Sociological Quarterly•1974

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• A comparison of black and white prejudice

  Joseph Hraba, Richard L Brinkman et al.•Sociological Spectrum•1996

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