Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of threat perception, economic status, and political persepctive on xenophobic attitudes within the ethnic majority group in European Union. Specifically, we investigate the impacts of the aforementioned factors on one’s ethnic preference for immigrants. Through SEM and logistic regression analysis, we discover that perceptions of cultural threat lead to one’s ethnic preference for their same race, implying an assumed linkage between cultural opposition and racial opposition. We also discover that citizens tend to associate their country’s overall well-being with preference for immigrants of the same race, but associate personal well-being with preference for immigrants of different races. Finally, we show evidence that people with right-wing ideologies tend to have stronger opposition toward the immigrant group, with immigrants of different races being more victimized.