Ethnic Prejudice: Reasons and Its Impacts on urban population with Special Reference to Ethno-linguistic City; Karachi

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*Sadia Rehman, **Dr. Kaneez Fatima Mamdani

Abstract

As internal as well as external migration is quite common in big cities in order to get economic opportunities which causes of heterogeneity in urban areas. Karachi is one of the cities which consisted of multiple ethnic groups and each tries to follow its own customs and tradition. When it’s come to language, people consider it as their identity because it makes them different from others specifically in terms of ethnicheritage which forms a heterogeneous society. Due to multiethnic population discrimination, inequality, competitiveness, deprivation, dominancy, diversity, and socio-economic and ethnic status consciousness take place and become a part of urbanism and enormously affects its life due to increasing ethnic prejudice. The present research test the influence of ethnic socialization, ethic discrimination, ethnic relative deprivation, interethnic interaction on ethnic prejudice. Survey data were collected from the 192 citizen aged above 30. The multiple regression analysis demonstared that all the hypothesized relation were supported except the influence of interethnic interaction on ethnic prejudice. The study outlined implication and recommendations for the policy makers and government.

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How to Cite
*Sadia Rehman, **Dr. Kaneez Fatima Mamdani. (2022). Ethnic Prejudice: Reasons and Its Impacts on urban population with Special Reference to Ethno-linguistic City; Karachi. Harf-O-Sukhan, 6(2), 125-134. Retrieved from https://harf-o-sukhan.com/index.php/Harf-o-sukhan/article/view/453