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Explaining Everyday Hate in a Multicultural Context

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The previous chapter detailed the survey sample’s exposure to racially and religiously motivated hostility and highlighted their involvement in verbal and physical expressions of it. From the responses supplied by young people who admitted to expressing such hostility—as well as the responses provided by those who shared their opinion on why people participate in targeted hostility—it was suggested that perpetrators commit acts of targeted hostility because they are either frustrated at themselves or at ‘Others’, or because they think that it is thrilling or funny. Whilst the survey findings were insightful in revealing that 43.9 % of respondents routinely hear racially and religiously prejudiced views, and that approximately a quarter had either verbally or physically expressed hostility on the basis of someone’s ethnicity or religion, these data were limited in their ability to shine a light on the everyday contexts in which targeted hostility take place. It did, however, illustrate that for a significant proportion of young people, their lives are permeated by racially and religiously motivated hostility, which in turn influences their perception of England’s multicultural population and their interpretation of social cohesion within Leicester.

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Hardy, SJ. (2017). Explaining Everyday Hate in a Multicultural Context. In: Everyday Multiculturalism and ‘Hidden’ Hate. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53236-7_8

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