racial attitudes

collocation in English

meaningsofracialandattitude

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racial
adjective
uk
/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/
us
/ˈreɪ.ʃəl/
based on someone's perceived race, especially in a way that is unfair or harmful; or based on policies, behaviours, rules, etc. that result in unfair or harmful treatment of people because of their ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/
us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofracialandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofracial attitudes

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If we then look at the punishments handed down in these cases, a clearer picture emerges of the racial attitudes adopted by the courts.
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This, in turn, set into motion a selfreinforcing polarization among party identifiers in their racial attitudes.
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Our unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes is based on the random assignment of respondents to different treatment groups.
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In this article we make use of a technique that allows us to embed an unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes within a standard telephone survey.
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However, their measure of racial attitudes is problematic because it is based on survey items about desegregation.
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Neither party affiliation, ideological outlook nor racial attitudes significantly influences respondents' preferences for an ethnic, as opposed to a national, political self-identification.
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Most of the evidence scholars and pundits have cited to bolster it is of questionable validity, predicated on proxy variables of key concepts like racial attitudes and party identification.
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Many of these previous efforts study the relationship between the racial balance in one's neighbourhood, precinct, county or even state and one's racial attitudes or voting behaviour.
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In one of this year's cases evidence of the accused's racial attitudes was a prominent feature of the evidence presented at the trial.
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What we need, above all, is a complete change, a revolution, in racial attitudes.
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We can achieve a solution, but if we introduce racial attitudes, hatred and religious differences we shall be culpable and shall deserve to be condemned by posterity.
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Furthermore, employers implicit racial attitudes, which predominantly arise from stereotypes, can predict racial hiring discrimination.
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Victorian racial attitudes were inculcated in children's through books of this genre and historical texts of the time.
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Racial attitudes were slow to change.
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