Seeing that people in collectivist cultures tend to stick together in a close network I automatically thought of ethnocentrism because how could you be so close with people of the same culture and not be ethnocentric. While researching I came across the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology with a section titled Ethnocentrism and the Value of a Human Life. It is in here that Pratto and Glasford state “People favor those in their own social categories, or in-groups, over people in other social categories, or out-groups, in their explicit prejudice (e.g., Sumner, 1906), implicit prejudice (e.g., Perdue, Dovidio, Gurtman, & Tyler, 1990), and allocations of resources (e.g., Brewer, 1979, Tajfel, Billig, Bundy, & Glament, 1971).” So basically we favor our own groups and put down others around us is what they found out. Another factor that they found that influences prejudice for people in other groups is intergroup competition. “When benefits to the other group represents harms or losses to one’s own group, people are especially likely to not only evaluate their own group more positively but also to denigrate and harm out groups (e.g., Blake & Mouton. 1986: Campbell, 1965: Fabbie, Benoist, Oosterbaan, & Visser, 1974; Sherif & Sherif, 1953).”