Stereotipuri etnice și dimensiuni ale identității. Investigație cross-culturală

A stereotype is a complex mechanism, through which social connotations of personal and business qualities are passed on from generation to generation, and even more than that. In fact, it contains some filters which allow us to highlight the defining characteristics of the subject, on the basis of which we can draw the image of the person representing the ethnic group. In this context, the logic of the research is based on the principle of value judgment, which allowed us to answer the following questions: How is the person representing the ethnic group perceived today? What are his/her distinctive features? Can living environment and context have an impact on value judgment?. Questions to which we tried to answer through the social representations of Moldovan adolescents who are immigrants in Italy and Moldovan adolescents who live in the Republic of Moldova.