Ethnic Self-Identification, Ethnic Involvement, and Group Differentiation among Chinese Youth in the Netherlands

Ethnic self-identification among Chinese minority youth living in the Netherlands was explored. Four types of ethnic self-identification were differentially related to ethnic involvement and to intergroup differentiation, suggesting that group identification may be less straightforward than researchers have assumed. Collectivism as an individual difference variable was related to ethnic self-description and to ethnic involvement. In-group favoritism and an in-group homogeneity effect (both of which may be a function of the Chinese minority position in the Netherlands or of the Chinese collectivist culture) were evident.