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[phoenix]

Journal Social Psychology 2006 Aug;146(4):405-21.Links
Greek Cypriot attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants.Danielidou L, Horvath P.
Psychology Department, Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The authors examined the attitudes of 106 Greek Cypriots toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants on Cyprus. The authors examined Greek Cypriot attitudes, willingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants, and the reasons behind their attitudes in terms of their social-identity perceptions, victimization experiences, and human-rights concerns. A series of repeated measures analyses of variance showed that Greek Cypriots were more willing to cohabit with and had less negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots than they were with and toward Turkish immigrants. Women felt more victimized by Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants than did men. Perceived differences in social identity predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots. Feelings of victimization predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots. Differences in social identity and victimization experiences predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish immigrants. Differences in social identity predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish immigrants. The authors discussed the findings in terms of support for realistic group conflict theories of attitudes and their implications for the coexistence of these ethnic groups in Cyprus and of other ethnic groups in multicultural societies.

They are on to us . . .

[free_cyprus]

Journal Social Psychology 2006 Aug;146(4):405-21.Links
Greek Cypriot attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants.Danielidou L, Horvath P.
Psychology Department, Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The authors examined the attitudes of 106 Greek Cypriots toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants on Cyprus. The authors examined Greek Cypriot attitudes, willingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants, and the reasons behind their attitudes in terms of their social-identity perceptions, victimization experiences, and human-rights concerns. A series of repeated measures analyses of variance showed that Greek Cypriots were more willing to cohabit with and had less negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots than they were with and toward Turkish immigrants. Women felt more victimized by Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants than did men. Perceived differences in social identity predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots. Feelings of victimization predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots. Differences in social identity and victimization experiences predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish immigrants. Differences in social identity predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish immigrants. The authors discussed the findings in terms of support for realistic group conflict theories of attitudes and their implications for the coexistence of these ethnic groups in Cyprus and of other ethnic groups in multicultural societies.

They are on to us . . .

and did these so called psychologist ever asked a question that we might be the same people of cyprus but onlything that is difrent is language we speak and religion people fallow, and did any of those psychologist as they like to call themselves point out the fact that we are cypriots and we have been ruled invaded raped for over 3000 years and its impossible for us to come out off all that as pure turks and greeks that most of the morans believe themsleves to be

and they are supposed to be psychologist

[Get Real!]

Ricco will love these findings...

[Nikitas]

The paper starts witha bollocks premise. There is a vast qualitative difference between cohabiting with Turkish Cypriots who are part of the Cyprus population and being asked to do the same with Turkish "immigrants" which presumably means settlers. Have they asked Cypriots from both communities how they feel about settlers? Are those results different from the Greeks only results?

Have these schmucks asked the same questions of Native Canadians in Canada? Another scientiific joke paper!

[zan]

I think that this Forum is testament to how true the article is.....All over the Internet there is more proof.......

[shahmaran]

It is utter bollocks!! i am sorry to say but i have never felt true racism at first hand until i met Greek Cypriots, everyone i met seems to be fueled by revenge and was seriously delusional about being the greatest race of all times and some other nonsense full of complexes

[Nikitas]

Shah, how did they demonstrate these feelings of being the greatest reace of all time? I ask because there is a short clip of speeches in northern Greece by a Turkish journalist who talks of the fortune of being a Turk etc and he sounds like he is displaying the traits you mention. He also talks about Greek mothers' vaginas etc.

[shahmaran]

Everyone seems to try argue that they are the greatest and we are the barbarians, even the small talk with the person you have just met is not about the weather or football but its about "oh you did this this this and we gave the world Socrates and the alphabet and blabalbalba..." unfortunately for them nothing is that black and white and Greek history is NO WAY as innocent as most of them like to portray it.

On top of all this i think the dispute over Greek history textbooks is a good example of how they love raising their kids, and how they actually see preaching Turkish hate as a part of their identity and history! :s

If this is not racism then i do not know what racism is...

[phoenix]

Journal Social Psychology 2006 Aug;146(4):405-21.Links
Greek Cypriot attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants.Danielidou L, Horvath P.
Psychology Department, Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The authors examined the attitudes of 106 Greek Cypriots toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants on Cyprus. The authors examined Greek Cypriot attitudes, willingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants, and the reasons behind their attitudes in terms of their social-identity perceptions, victimization experiences, and human-rights concerns. A series of repeated measures analyses of variance showed that Greek Cypriots were more willing to cohabit with and had less negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots than they were with and toward Turkish immigrants. Women felt more victimized by Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants than did men. Perceived differences in social identity predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish Cypriots. Feelings of victimization predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots. Differences in social identity and victimization experiences predicted unwillingness to cohabit with Turkish immigrants. Differences in social identity predicted negative attitudes toward Turkish immigrants. The authors discussed the findings in terms of support for realistic group conflict theories of attitudes and their implications for the coexistence of these ethnic groups in Cyprus and of other ethnic groups in multicultural societies.

They are on to us . . .

and did these so called psychologist ever asked a question that we might be the same people of cyprus but onlything that is difrent is language we speak and religion people fallow, and did any of those psychologist as they like to call themselves point out the fact that we are cypriots and we have been ruled invaded raped for over 3000 years and its impossible for us to come out off all that as pure turks and greeks that most of the morans believe themsleves to be

and they are supposed to be psychologist

free_ cyprus, they are highly respected Psychologists. These are some of the factors they addressed for their study, (for the sake of brevity shortened extracts from the above source):

Victimization

Victimization as an explanation of negative attitudes between the two
groups is based on our assumption that the 1974 conflict led to the development of Greek Cypriots’ hostility toward Turks and Turkish Cypriots. Researchers could argue that the war of 1974 and its aftermath led to Greek Cypriot defensive aggression and consequently hostile attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants.

Refugees

Becoming a refugee because of war can also exacerbate a person’s experiences of victimization. Recent Greek Cypriot refugees could have formed negative attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants because the war forced the Greek Cypriots out of their hometowns and properties. Although Turkish Cypriots were not the invaders in the war, they moved into Greek Cypriot properties within Cyprus after the war.

Anger in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

. . could also be the generator of the Greek Cypriot hostility toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants.

Human Rights

Greek Cypriots’ attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants
may also have developed as a response to perceived violations of Greek Cypriot human rights. Greek Cypriots perceived their human rights as being violated during the 1974 war and have continued to perceive them as being violated to the present day. Turkey denies Greek Cypriots the right to return to their homes in northern Cyprus. Greek Cypriot refugees have lost their rights to freedom of movement and to ownership of their property in their former residences. Turkey has offered them no compensation for the interference with those rights.

Turkey committed 14 violations of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Indeed, before the war in 1974, in some villages in Cyprus, the two ethnic groups had friendly, even intimate relations with each other, although intermarriages were rare. The war in 1974 forced the two cultures that had previously intermingled to separate.

It is reasonable to assume that Greek Cypriots would develop negative attitudes against the perceived violators of their rights.

[Nikitas]

The Greek history book was withdrawn because of one, just one, gross inaccuracy of an event that happened in living memory- the destruction of Smyrni that is described as "congestion at the port" while the accompanying photo shows the town in flames.

When I was taught history, in primary school, we were taught that after the siege of Tripolis during the war of independence the Greek fighters committed atrocities and looting, which they also did on a minor scale in the siege of Corinthos and other towns of the Peloponnese. Is there any similar lesson about Chios, Kasos and Psara in Turkish schools I wonder.