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Rebuffing racial insults: How culture shapes our behavior

April 12, 2012 by

The color of our skin or where we come does matter when it comes to how we react to a racist insult. A new study has found that African American women are more likely than Asian American women to directly rebuff racist comments, a difference that may reflect deeply rooted cultural differences, report researchers.

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