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Aboriginal self-determination in Australia - The effects of minority-majority frames and target universalism on majority collective guilt and compensation attitudes
Reid, Scott A., Gunter, Helen N. and Smith, Joanne R. (2005) Aboriginal self-determination in Australia - The effects of minority-majority frames and target universalism on majority collective guilt and compensation attitudes. Human Communication Research, 31 2: 189-211.
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| Author(s) |
Reid, Scott A.
Gunter, Helen N.
Smith, Joanne R.
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| Title |
Aboriginal self-determination in Australia - The effects of minority-majority frames and target universalism on majority collective guilt and compensation attitudes
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| Journal name |
Human Communication Research
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| Publication date |
2005
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| Volume number |
31
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| Issue number |
2
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| ISSN |
0360-3989
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| Start page |
189
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| End page |
211
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| Total pages |
23
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| Editor(s) |
James P. Dillard
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| Place of publication |
USA
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| Publisher |
Blackwell
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| Collection year |
2005
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| Language |
eng
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| Subject |
C1
380105 Social and Community Psychology
780108 Behavioural and cognitive sciences
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| Abstract |
In the context of Aboriginal-Anglo Australian relations, we tested the effect of framing (multiculturalism versus separatism) and majority group members' social values (universalism) on the persuasiveness of Aboriginal group rhetoric, majority collective guilt, attitudes toward compensation, and reparations for Aboriginals. As predicted, Anglo Australians who are low on universalism report more collective guilt when presented with a multiculturalist than a separatist Aboriginal frame, whereas those high on universalism report high levels of guilt independent of frame. The same pattern was predicted and found for the persuasiveness of the rhetoric and attitudes toward compensation. Our data suggest that (a) for individuals low in universalism, framing produces attitudes consonant with compensation because it produces collective guilt and (b) the reason that universalists are more in favor of compensation and reparation is because of high collective guilt. We discuss the strategic use of language to create power through the manipulation of collective guilt in political contexts.
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| Keyword(s) |
Communication
White Guilt
Power
Exclusion
Identity
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