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Racial/Ethnic Identity of Preschool Children

Comparing Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States

Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Chien-Hou Hwang

National Taiwan Normal University

Preschool children from four racial/ethnic groupings in three different sociocultural settings were compared on racial/ethnic identity with a picture interview. One of the settings, Taiwan, was relatively homogeneous in racial/ ethnic makeup; another, Hong Kong, nonstratified; the third, the United States, stratified. In Taiwan and Hong Kong the subjects were Chinese; in the United States they were Afro- and Euro-American. The major hypothesis was supported, for the Taiwan and Hong Kong children differed from the Afro- and Euro-American on racial/ethnic preference, self-preference, and self-perception; from Euro-American on classification ability; and from Afro-American on self-classification. It was concluded that a crucial factor in the development of racial/ ethnic identity was not so much whether the society was multiracial/ethnic or homogeneous, but whether racial/ethnic groupings in the multi-racial/ethnic society were stratified.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 4, 409-424 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022181124002


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