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Ethnic Hostility among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups

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7. Educational Attainment <strong>and</strong> <strong>Ethnic</strong> <strong>Hostility</strong> | Results<br />

again give support to the idea that involvement with the host country, as expressed by Dutch<br />

media usage <strong>and</strong> contact with natives in leisure time is positively related to cultural integration.<br />

Negative contact – as measured with personal experiences of discrimination - strengthens<br />

identifi cation with the country of origin but not for Turks <strong>and</strong> second generation Moroccans. Given<br />

our fi ndings, we conclude that negative contact has a less consistent impact on (attitudinal<br />

indicators of) cultural integration than positive contact.<br />

Our mediators signifi cantly interpret the education effect for all ethnic categories with<br />

a signifi cant total effect of education. Although consumption of media from the country of origin<br />

was strongly positively related to identifi cation with the country of origin, it may come as no<br />

surprise that origin country media usage does not interpret the education effect; educational<br />

attainment was not related to this mediator as we already observed above (see Appendix 7.1).<br />

Once again, we fi nd that the negative effect of education is (fairly consistently) interpreted by<br />

Dutch media usage <strong>and</strong> contact with natives in leisure time.<br />

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