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Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space
Yang, Yung-Jui
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- Title
- Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space
- Author(s)
- Yang, Yung-Jui
- Issue Date
- 2012-02-06T20:07:59Z
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Chiu, Chi-Yue
- Committee Member(s)
- Chiu, Chi-Yue
- Wyer, Robert S., Jr.
- Cohen, Dov
- Vargas, Patrick T.
- Department of Study
- Psychology
- Discipline
- Psychology
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- Ph.D.
- Degree Level
- Dissertation
- Keyword(s)
- intercultural relations
- cultural symbolism
- spatial intrusion
- Abstract
- Facing the increasingly intensified interactions between cultures, why do people sometimes react to foreign cultural influence in a negative way? Three critical conditions were proposed to account for people’s negative reactions toward intrusion of a foreign element into the sacred space of the local community. These three conditions are (a) perceptions of the foreign element as a symbol of the culture it belongs to; (b) the foreign element is perceived to have intruded into the physical space of the local community; and (c) the local space is widely regarded by the local community with reverence and respect. Experiments 1 to 3 tested this proposed framework in different intercultural contexts: Chinese’s responses to the opening of a new McDonald’s shop at the Great Wall of China (Experiment 1); Americans’ responses to an image of Mao Zedong superimposed on that of the Statue of Liberty (Experiment 2); and Americans’ responses to the construction of a Muslim Mosque near Ground Zero in New York City (Experiment 3). The results from these three experiments supported the proposed model. Two additional experiments (Experiments 4 and 5) explored other bases of resistance to spatial intrusions of a foreign element. Results from these additional experiments showed that when cultural intrusions occur in a foreign country or in a competitive political outgroup, individuals may be motivated by culture preservation values, or by political ideology to resist or welcome these intrusions. I close with a discussion on the implications of the results for managing intercultural relations and future research.
- Graduation Semester
- 2011-12
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29633
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2011 Yung-Jui Yang
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