Race Relations Research in Korea.
Abstract
For several years, the Army supported research in Korea designed primarily to examine cross-cultural differences and to provide ways of improving relations between American soldiers and Korean host-country nationals. However, this research yielded little information about whether host nationals react differently toward majority and minority soldiers among American troops or whether majority and minority soldiers react differently toward host nationals. With the increased emphasis on Army-wide Equal Opportunity Treatment/Race Relations (EOT/RR) programs, there was an increased awareness that host nationals treated majority and minority soldiers among American troops differently, and vice versa. Commanders and those who conduct behavioral and social research viewed the problems in Korea as three-cornered, involving interactions between white soldiers and host country nationals, minority troops and host country nationals, and White and minority troops. The overall problem appeared to be highly complex. Thus, the American soldiers, majority and minority, in Korea, have been in an environment which has a drastically different culture, and in which the host nationals are non-white. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA077946
Entities
People
- George Hampton
- James A. Thomas
- Roland J. Hart