86 university students (36 native, 50 nonnative) responded to a questionnaire assessing attitudes toward natives after being assigned randomly to use one of five ethnic identity labels. Native respondents rated natives uniformly more positively regardless of ethnic identity label, and described their own ethnic heritage most often using tribal terms rather than identity labels employed by nonnatives.
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