Despite that integration is considered an acculturation strategy with beneficial consequences for immigrants it has also been argued that becoming one with the host society may hold negative implications for immigrants, because it distracts from looking at social inequalities and actions to change the status quo (Dovidio et al., 2012). Employing a critical discursive social psychological approach, we examined how young people of immigrant origins tended to understate racist incidents and racism within an interview context on their efforts to integrate in the Greek educational system and in the Greek society in general. Participants, when talking about their school years and their early life, would often downgrade racist incidents, arguing that i) they were not affected by them because they were resilient, ii) because they were not bad-intended but just attempts to make fun, iii) these incidents were not a generalized phenomenon, or iv) because they are a generic phenomenon in host societies. Findings are discussed in relation to how the pressure to adjust to the host society may lead to the underestimation of racism.
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