ABSTRACT
The dominant research on ethnocentrism pursued in the Netherlands is, as in many countries, heavily influenced by the American empirical tradition founded by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson and Sanford. Social identity theory is considered a crucial theory with the potential to explain many empirical observations on ethnocentrism that is on nationalism and ethnic exclusionism worldwide. Recently, cross-national evidence was found for a multi-factorial solution pertaining to ethnocentrism by decomposing the favourable attitude toward the ingroup into two sets and the unfavourable attitude toward outgroup into three sets. Pettigrew and Meertens have used the blatant and subtle prejudice to refer to the 'old' and the 'new' forms of racism. They introduced specific measurements and presented a series of findings suggesting that 'subtle prejudice against outgroups can be measured reliably and separately from the more traditional form of blatant prejudice'. Pettigrew and Meertens claimed that their conception of 'blatant' prejudice is standard, derived from repeatedly emerging components.
