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A 3 page essay that discusses an article by Jeffrey Winters, “Why We Hate,” which addresses the problem of xenophobia. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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2000). Interactionists, in other words, focus their attention on how people perceive social life, rather than on the macro aspects of social systems, which is the focus for functionalists (McClelland,
2000). In his essay, "Why We Hate," Jeffrey Winters takes a symbolic interactionist approach to understanding xenophobia as the root cause of racial and ethnic hatred. Through out his
essay, Winters offers intriguing descriptions of human behavior and social experiments that demonstrate how people interpret their behavior and reactions on a symbolic level. For example, Winters begins his remarks
by describing how Balbir Singh Sodhi was gunned down in Arizona shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 simply because he wore a turban. This victim of xenophobia
was of South Asian ancestry, but he was not associated with the terrorists in any way. He was not even Muslim. He was killed because his murderer associated him symbolically
with Islam due to his turban. Winters goes on to describe how easily, "even arbitrarily," xenophobia can be initiated-sometimes with just a few hours of conditioning. He describes the famous
experiment in prejudice conducted by a school teacher who divided her class by eye color. Winters is quite persuasive in his argument that the tendency toward xenophobia, the urge
to hate those different from ourselves and divide "the world into us and them, derives from "deep-seated need" (Winters, 2007). He then describes the various theories that have been formulated
to account for this behavior. For example, Henri Tajfel and John Turner attribute this tendency to the "desire to think highly of oneself," that is, to boost self-esteem through association
with a "distinctive group" (Winters, 2007). This is an informative discussion that offers the parameters of what sociologists and psychologists are currently thinking in regards to the root causes of
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