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VALA, Jorge  y  COSTA-LOPES, Rui. Youth attitudes toward difference and diversity: a cross-national analysis. Anál. Social [online]. 2010, n.195, pp.255-275. ISSN 0003-2573.

This paper analyses youth attitudes toward difference and cultural diversity. Firstly, we analyse data from 65 countries showing that youths are more tolerant than older people toward both stigmatised groups and groups perceived as racially or ethnically different. Findings also show that political conservatism is a very stable predictor of intolerance to difference. Secondly, we study the appraisals of cultural diversity in 21 European countries, showing that youths express greater openness to cultural diversity than older people. In this new study, while values of conservation correlate negatively with openness to cultural diversity, values of self-transcendence correlate positively.

Palabras clave : intolerance; cultural diversity; youths; discrimination; prejudice.

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