When Ways of Life Collide: A Critical Analysis

When Ways of Life Collide written by capital of Minnesota Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn is a tidings which focalisees on the collision of Western European set and Muslim values. The book tackles relevant information on the relationships of cultures values (with focus on the Netherlands) its injustices and reactions towards another culture. Moreover, the book explores multiculturalism policies and the diverging clash of values it causes amid the Dutch legal age and Muslim minority in the Netherlands.The book includes an preliminary chapter, four body chapters which be ground on a 1998 subject area digest that consists of erudite designed statistical experiments and a concluding chapter. Muslims, the archetypal of the body chapters, tackles the culture of Muslims and the Dutch majority towards their treatment on women and children. The book was able to show that the obvious rejection of a particular group repayable to conflict over values might not be incessantly take eff ect.In particular, one of the authors interesting conclusion is that individuals end slew the Muslims values in a negative while at the same(p) time creating a constructive attitude towards Muslims and in effect catch even their way of life and culture. Chapter three, Prejudice, is a mere discussion and analysis of prejudice. Both Sniderman and Hagendoorn view prejudice as a readiness to peck at minorities, to dislike them, to shun them (p. 47). What the authors have to measure prejudice are based on statistical survey.The survey was designed for the individuals to agree or take issue on the eight most probable characterizations of minorities. The authors find that intolerance can eventually results to an open denial of the equal rights of the immigrant minorities (Muslims). On chapter four, the authors use a decoupling experiment to basically improve the previous research. Both Sniderman and Hagendoorn believes that an observed little terror to an individuals cultural identit y shows a sturdy predictor of prejudice than a perceived economic threat.However, chapter five entitled Top-Down Politics illustrates that individuals who are committing negative attitudes and show prejudice to the minority immigrants are also on the same way the most probable to react positively towards the immigrants. The briny argument of the book is that the Netherlands policy towards multiculturalism which was determined through consensus has led the central point on the political argument that involves group identities immigrant minorities and Dutch majorities.The change magnitude conflicts between the immigrant minorities and Dutch majorities are trigger by the 9/11 attack, the rise to power of Pim Fortuyn and the Theo van Gogh murder in 2004 by a Dutch Moroccan. The book is particularly significant to a word form of audience concerned on the prevailing attitudes shown by the Dutch majority towards immigrant minorities, immigration and multiculturalism. This book is good i n particularly using scholarly surveys and statistical studies in providing significant conclusions on the study.