CORE VALUE: RESPECT
More than 90% of Americans profess to respect others, but is this put into practice?
More than 90 percent of Americans agree that respect for people of different racial, ethnic and religious groups is important to them. This core value, however, gets complicated when it is applied. If minorities don’t do well in life, many Americans feel they have no one to blame but themselves. We proclaim respect for people of different race, ethnicities, and religions—but more than 70 percent of Americans say that immigrants should adopt American values. While Americans generally proclaim to value respect, we seem to put limits on it.
SURVEY QUESTION
How this value was measured:
There are two components to respect as a core value: respect for people of all faiths, and respect for people of different races and ethnicities.
respect for people of all faiths (religious component)
—> respect for people who are atheists…march of the nones (humanism, secularism)
—> would you support having an atheist hold high office or be president
—> where religious buildings are put (Ground Zero)
—> how accepting are we of people who wear different things (hijab, french burqa bans)…sikhs (turbans), orthodox jews (
—>religious sounds (church bells, islam call to prayer)
—> how far and wide does this go (where would you draw the line?)
—>some would draw the line at mormoms, some would draw it at atheism,
respect for people of different races and ethnicities
—>immigration (two sides to multi-culturalism, we should tolerate and celebrate respect for all people…other side is that this threatens social cohesion…assimilation is school. america has people come from all over, eventually it’s a ‘melting pot’—melts into a single unified people. multiculrualist view: people shouldn’t lose their individual identities…shouldn’t lose their customs/dress/ways of speaking. america also takes people from all over (let them maintain a lot of what makes them different.) ‘melting pot ideology’ vs ‘multi-cuturalism.’
—>dual-language education
—>obama, race
—>birther
—>at turn of the century, 40% of us were immigrants
—>Arizona
questions to ask:
your opinion on what this means
“social desirability bias” — i’m going to answer what you think you want me to say or what you’re looking for. short survey questions actually tap more into our real values than our interviews (you would be more likely to use your values to rationalize your behavior.) short survey questions are more likely to tap your real values (don’t have too much time to think about it.)
how do americans rank against other people on their value of respect?
…look at issue of civil rights in the us and how long it took to pass legislation even after slaves were freed (50-60 years before civil rights legislation was passed)
Gangs in New York…Irish Catholics/Protestant clash
How we treated native americans
we’re now seeing higher rates of inter-marriage than ever before
there’s been times we’ve done a terrible job at this
but…have we had any major incidents of ethnic cleansing?
in most other parts of the world minorities are persecuted in a way that doesn’t happen here.
**look at world values survey…look at it online…all info is available there.
polling data
surprised wayne how strong it was…6 measures of coreness…respect was so high on all of those. surprising in an academic sense…trained to see things : as a increases, b decreases. harder to explain consensus…instead of trying to explain instability, trends over time…we find that there are no trends (it’s the opposite problem) how do you explain why things don’t change
2009, 2010, september 2010…
some questions have been asked in other surveys over longer periods of time (gallop—belief in God has been asked for the past 50 years)
devils advocacy — does wayne think we should respect terry jones?
should we respect someone who commited a heinous crime
is this just lip service and do people really behave this way?
survey question!
look back to wayne’s online surveys…find questions and use them to measure readers against
respect for people of all faiths (religious component)
—> respect for people who are atheists…march of the nones (humanism, secularism)
—> would you support having an atheist hold high office or be president
—> where religious buildings are put (Ground Zero)
—> how accepting are we of people who wear different things (hijab, french burqa bans)…sikhs (turbans), orthodox jews (
—>religious sounds (church bells, islam call to prayer)
—> how far and wide does this go (where would you draw the line?)
—>some would draw the line at mormoms, some would draw it at atheism,
respect for people of different races and ethnicities
—>immigration (two sides to multi-culturalism, we should tolerate and celebrate respect for all people…other side is that this threatens social cohesion…assimilation is school. america has people come from all over, eventually it’s a ‘melting pot’—melts into a single unified people. multiculrualist view: people shouldn’t lose their individual identities…shouldn’t lose their customs/dress/ways of speaking. america also takes people from all over (let them maintain a lot of what makes them different.) ‘melting pot ideology’ vs ‘multi-cuturalism.’
—>dual-language education
—>obama, race
—>birther
—>at turn of the century, 40% of us were immigrants
—>Arizona
