Summary of Existing Research on Interracial/Interethnic Conflict
Research on intercultural conflict generally, and interracial and interethnic conflict specifically, is a rapidly growing area of study. The vast majority of research on culture and conflict, however, has focused on comparison studies of conflict styles among people from different national cultures (M.
-S. Kim & Leung, 2000). In other words, the focus has been on differences in styles used by members of different countries (M. -S. Kim & Leung, 2000). The same could be said for research on interracial or interethnic conflict (Houston, 2002). Yet a significantly smaller amount of intercultural conflict research exists that focuses on race and ethnicity.At times, it is the different cultural styles of individuals, and not necessarily the context of the conflict itself, that creates problems within the conflict episode (Ting-Toomey, 1988). Not surprisingly, much of the existing research on interracial/interethnic conflict focuses on these differences. This section summarizes existing research studies on race, ethnicity, and conflict. Specifically, our review is organized into two main areas of research: (1) sources of conflict and (2) conflict styles.
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