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Pre-Survey: DOR ORIG SERIES
One reason people participate in the Dialogue on Race Series is to better understand their own thoughts and feelings about race issues. To help you with this understanding, and to gauge any changes in that understanding resulting from your participation in this dialogue series, we ask that you fill out this survey during the first and last sessions. Please use the last four digits of your social security number for your Survey ID Number.
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Racial Attitude
On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, and 5 = strongly agree, indicate the number that best reflects how you feel about the following statements concerning attitudes on race:
Irish, Italians, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Black people should do the same without any special favors.
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Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for Black people to work their way out of the lower class.
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It's really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if Black people would only try harder they could be just as well as white people.
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Over the past few years, Black people have gotten less than they deserve. White people in the U.S. have certain advantages because of the color of their skin.
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Race is very important in determining who is successful and who is not.
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Race plays an important role in who gets sent to prison.
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Race plays a major role in the type of social services (such as type of healthcare or day care) that people receive in the U.S.
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Racial and ethnic minorities do not have the same opportunities as white people in the U.S.
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Everyone who works hard, no matter what race they are, has an equal chance to become rich.
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White people are more to blame for racial discrimination than racial and ethnic minorities.
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Social policies, such as affirmative action, discriminate unfairly against white people.
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White people in the U.S. are discriminated against because of the color of their skin.
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English should be the only official language in the U.S.
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Due to racial discrimination, programs such as affirmative action are necessary to help create equality.
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Racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. have certain advantages because of the color of their skin.
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It is important that people begin to think of themselves as American and not African-American or Mexican-American
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Immigrants should try to fit into the culture and values of the U.S.
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I resent all of the special attention/favors that African-Americans receive; other Americans like me have problems too.
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African Americans should not need any special privileges when slavery and racism are things of the past.
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African Americans do not need any special consideration because racism is a thing of the past.
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I am concerned that the special privileges for African Americans place me at an unfair disadvantage when I have done nothing to harm them.
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For African Americans to succeed they need to stop using racism as an excuse.
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I don't understand why race is any different from what other people have to deal with.
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African Americans bring up race only when they need to make an excuse for their failure.
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What upsets me most about some successful African Americans is that they had advantages and opportunities I did not have.
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This survey is based on the three surveys most commonly used in the U.S. to assess racial attitudes, the Racial Resentment (RR) survey, the Colorblind Racial Attitudes survey (CoBRAS), and the Explicit Racial Resentment (EXR) survey.
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