But when they don\u2019t conform to common racial stereotypes, such as being non-dominant, even people of East Asian descent are \u201cunwelcome and unwanted by their co-workers,\u201d<\/strong> says a new paper from the University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management.<\/p>\n The study shows there is a difference between \u201cdescriptive\u201d racial stereotypes<\/strong> \u2013 what people believe to be true about members of a particular group \u2013 and \u201cprescriptive\u201d racial stereotypes<\/strong> \u2013 how people want members of a particular group to behave.<\/p>\n One experiment showed that participants held descriptive stereotypes of East Asians as being competent, cold, and non-dominant.<\/p>\n A second showed that the most valued expectation of East Asians was that they \u201cstay in their place,\u201d and don\u2019t take a dominating role. A third experiment showed that participants preferred a white co-worker over an East Asian co-worker if that co-worker had a dominant personality.<\/p>\n \u201cIn general, people don\u2019t want dominant co-workers but they really don\u2019t want to work with a dominant East-Asian co-worker,\u201d says Jennifer Berdahl, a Rotman professor who co-authored the study with graduate student Ji-A Min, after conducting similar research into workplace gender stereotyping.<\/p>\n A fourth study, found that East Asians who exhibited a dominant personality at work reported higher levels of harassment than other workers. Those who \u201cstayed in their place\u201d did not.<\/p>\n Although stereotypes support the interests of the group that dominates in a society, Prof. Berdahl says, \u201cEveryone buys into them to some extent \u2026 even the group that they hurt.\u201d That may explain why the study\u2019s East Asian participants also seemed to hold the same limiting stereotypes about other East Asians.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you stay in your place \u2013 as a woman or as a minority \u2013 the workplace may not be actively hostile to you<\/strong>,\u201d says Prof. Berdahl. \u201cBut that in itself is a form of social coercion<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe first step to remedying the bamboo ceiling created by these prescriptive stereotypes of is to be aware of them and how they can lead to backlash against those who defy them,\u201d says Prof. Berdahl. \u201cHolding East Asians to different standards than whites \u2013 reacting negatively to them when they engage in leadership behaviors \u2013 holds them, and all those who might benefit from their leadership, back.\u201d<\/p>\n The study is forthcoming in an issue of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Rotman School of Management press release: They have been stereotyped as a \u201cmodel minority.\u201d But when they don\u2019t conform to common racial stereotypes, such as being non-dominant, even… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[300,59,81,12,17,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Boardroom2.jpg\" "\\"boardroom\\"")
They have been stereotyped as a \u201cmodel minority.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n