By Miller Brewer, Marilyn B. Brewer
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Background In the 1950s and 1960s the rapidly expanding West German economy needed more labor than was available at home. The gap was filled at increasing rates with workers from abroad. Recruitment treaties were negotiated with Italy (1955), Spain and Greece (1960), Turkey (1961), Morocco (1963), and several other countries, Yugoslavia (1968) being the last one. 6% of the West German population. The recruitment treaties assumed that a rotation process would occur, that is, that most workers from abroad would stay and work in West Germany for only a few years and then return home, thus requiring continuous replacements.
W. Berry be the reciprocal attitude, that of the larger society toward Native peoples in general. Clearly this is a problem of major national importance. If we wish to pursue multiculturalism as a national policy, we have to somehow keep the current Native preference for integration from turning to one of separation; however, if negative attitudes toward Native peoples continue in the larger society, they are likely to be reciprocated by Native peoples, and in turn lead to a preference for separation.
Thus, one may conclude that these two subgroups of Hauptschule and Gymnasium respondents had had very similar contact experiences with Turks. Nevertheless, they showed the wellknown pattern of differences in their ethnic attitudes. At least with respect to our data, frequency of contact per se may be set aside as a potential mediator of the negative relation between educational status and prejudice; but what about quality of contact? Could it be that persons in the higher educational track usually meet foreigners under more pleasant circumstances than do people from the lower education level?