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...that if you hear a bias stated often enough, you begin to believe it. This is what psychologist David Bem calls “semantic generalization.” If, for example, enough people hear Kenta refer to his Japanese peers as “hot off the boat” or Tony call his fellow Italians “dagos,” it isn’t necessary to have had any contact with Japanese immigrants or Italians to begin to agree with these assessments. It also doesn’t matter that Kenta is of Japanese ancestry or that Tony is Italian, the contagion is just as virulent.

Source: David Bem, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Human Affairs (Belmont, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1970)

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