'Whites suffer more racism than blacks': Study shows white American people believe they are more discriminated against
Watch the video on Corruption White Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, a new study reveals. Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universities asked 209 white and 208 black men and women to rate 'racism' against both ethnic groups since the 1950s on a scale of one to 10. The results showed that while both blacks and whites saw anti-black racism decreasing over the decades, whites saw race relations as a 'zero sum game' where they were losing out as blacks 'gained' the advantage. Racism: A group of American whites perceived they were more discriminated against than blacks Michael Norton (left) and Samuel R Sommers conducted the research into perceptions of racism to analyse theories about 'post racial' America The results, published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, showed that on average blacks saw anti-white bias rising slightly from 1.4 in the 1950s to 1.8 today....
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