The largest minority group in a country is most likely to experience hate crimes

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The size of a racial minority group in comparison to other minority groups within a country could impact the rate of hate crimes they experience from the majority group, according to international research. The team looked at census data and records of hate crimes in the US and UK to examine how rates of hate crimes perpetrated by white people change as Black, Hispanic, Asian and Arab populations change within the country. They say a racial minority is likely to experience more hate crimes and hostility if it is the largest minority group in population size within a country compared to if it is the second largest minority group.

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conference: Nature Human Behaviour

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Organisation/s: Harvard University, USA

Funder: This research was supported in part by a National Science Foundation CAREER award (no. BCS-1653188 awarded to M.C.). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

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