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Explaining the relationship between socio-economic status and interethnic friendships: The mediating role of preferences, opportunities, and third parties
Interethnic contact is important for social cohesion and has been shown to vary with people’s
socio-economic status (SES). There is some evidence that SES has opposite effects on interethnic
contact for non-Western ethnic minorities and for majority members in Western countries.
Whereas minority members with a higher SES tend to have more contact with natives, natives
with a higher SES tend to have less inter-ethnic contact. To replicate and further understand these
contrasting findings, we focused on interethnic friendships in particular and tested simultaneousl