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Ireland and intolerance, can education help deal with it? Find out tonight!

  • 10-09-2008 9:49am
    #1
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    The next ISS lecture will take place on Wednesday September 10th at 8.00 pm in the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin (www.sciencegallery.org). The gallery is located just inside the Pearse Street gate close to the junction with Westland Row. We are very pleased to be associated with the science gallery and hope you enjoy this new venue.

    The speaker on the night will be social psychologist Dr. Mick O’Connell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, UCD. The title of the presentation is “Is Ireland an intolerant society? And can education change intolerant attitudes?” Dr. O’Connell has sent the following abstract:

    “ireland’s recent substantial demographic changes have coincided with - or more likely produced - a rise in anti-minority/immigrant attitudes. One of the key predictors of overt measures of prejudice is education, i.e. where people are more educated they appear less likely to agree with hostile statements towards ethnic minorities or immigrants. Does this mean that one can ’solve’ problems of intergroup hostility via large doses of liberal education? One must be sceptical since education may simply lead people to redirect their intolerance, or to hide it with greater conviction as they fear being labelled as politically incorrect. While the views of the well-educated in Ireland and across Europe remain consistently more tolerant than those of the less well-educated even in the face of more highly skilled immigration, the better-educated or more skilled nationals have greater inbuilt protection against economic rivalry with immigrants”.

    Admission on the night will be 3 euro for members and 6 euro for non-members.


Comments

  • #2
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    I don't think it has anything to do with education affecting the way we think. I think it has more to do with game theory and how this affects someone who is uneducated.

    A lack of education will mean you will work in jobs where you will be competing with immigrants for a position. This intolerance for immigrants rises from this rivalry, which, without them, would not exist, so you resent it.

    An educated person will work in position that, for the majority, is unchallenged by immigration, so it is not a case that we are more "tolerant" rather we are indifferent because they pose no threat to us and our way of life.


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