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Gender Differences In Interracial Relationships

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Gender. A difference among the nature of each gender is one good indication when measuring attitudes. With the opposing nature of genders such that of personality and interest. As according to Williams and Best cited in Lippa (2010), men are seen as naturally aggressive, arrogant, competitive, independent and unemotional compared to what people see in women as being affectionate, anxious, compassionate, dependent, emotional and sensitive. Considering the held nature of genders, the study would look into the extent of which characteristics of gender is more accepting and open when it comes to their relatives who are involved in interracial relationships. Although from the previous findings of Field, Kimuna, and Straus (2013), gender has no impact with regards to acceptance of interracial relationships. Also from Pierce stating that, other factors such as race place significance when it comes to positive attitudes, but with regards to gender there is no significanct difference.
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From the study of Honeycutt et al. (2005), it was assumed that those with higher educational level would be more open to interracial relationships. This was supported by the study of Lewis, Wilson and Roberstson (2014) that people who have acquired higher education are likely to be supportive to the choice of partner of their family members regardless of race although their study found a weak result when it comes to the difference. In contrast, the study of Amoateng and Kalule-Sabiti (2014), results in their study showed that educational attainment has nothing to do with the levels of openness and acceptance of people towards interracial relationships, thus it depended on the kind of school setting whether the exposure to such is a positive factor that they could attribute to their perception of interracial relationships. Lastly, Kalmijn (1993) found that college educated individuals are likely to both approve and engage themselves in interracial

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