Citation

Alonso-Fernández F. An. R. Acad. Nac. Med. (Madr) 1999; 116(3): 651-64; discussion 664-6.

Vernacular Title

Las raices psicosociales del racismo y la xenofobia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Real Academia Nacional De Medicina)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10846583

Abstract

The concept of race is only a human particularity. In spite of this, the racism, as a construction of imagination or a paranocial delusion or an ethnic attitude, is spread among the narcissist personalities and the environment dominated by nationalist or religious fanaticism and anyway generates collective violence. There is also a psychosocial racism almost always actual in the common human relations, appeared in form of positive attitudes towards similar others and negative attitudes towards different others. The best defence against these both phenomena are the attitudes of tolerance, understanding and liking.

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