ABSTRACT
In the United States, research has shown that white males do not recognize discrimination or sexism as readily as blacks or females do (Inman and Baron, 1996). In addition, perceptions of the personal experiences of minorities differ for majority and minority subjects. For instance, Gossett, Cuviet, and Cockriel (1998) found that African-American students considered themselves more marginalized in a predominantly white campus than white students thought they (the African-American students) were. Lest you think this is an American problem, the literature suggests that similar issues are being researched in other countries. For example, Yamazaki et al (1997) studied Asian students attending a Japanese university and found the Asian students' attitudes toward their Japanese colleagues was directly related to the Japanese students' attitudes towards them. That is, when an Asian student had unpleasant experiences with Japanese students, their attitudes toward the Japanese were negatively affected (from the abstract; the article itself was in Japanese).
