We examined the differences between majority and minority children (i.e., group membership) on racial categorization and perceived cultural distance, among 4‐ to 6‐year‐old children, in low diversified schools. We used a spontaneous social categorization task using pictures of children from three different racial groups broadly represented in France (Europeans, Black‐, and North‐Africans), and an evaluation of the perceived cultural distance between participants' in‐group and the racial group represented in the picture, adapted to children and based on three factors (language, eating habits, and music). Results revealed an effect of age on racial categorization: the older the children, the more successful they are in this task. They showed a significant effect of the racial group represented in the photos on perceived cultural distance: members of minority groups (i.e., Black‐ and North‐Africans) were evaluated as more different compared to those of the majority group on each of the factors. Finally, we got an interaction between participants' in‐group and the racial group represented in the pictures, for the language factor: members of the majority group perceived as more different photographs representing minorities peers than those representing majority peers, while participants belonging to minority groups perceived no differences between photographs, according to the racial criteria.

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检查少数族裔与多数学龄前儿童在社会分类和感知群体间距离方面的差异

我们研究了多样化程度较低的学校中4至6岁儿童在种族分类和感知的文化距离方面的主要和少数儿童（即，团体成员）之间的差异。我们使用了自发的社会分类任务，使用了来自法国广泛分布的三个不同种族群体（欧洲人，黑人和北非人）的孩子的照片，并评估了参与者所在群体与种族群体之间的感知文化距离代表图片中的图片，适合儿童，并且基于三个因素（语言，饮食习惯和音乐）。结果显示年龄对种族分类有影响：孩子年龄越大，他们在这项任务中越成功。他们显示了照片中所代表的种族群体对感知的文化距离的重大影响：在每个因素上，少数群体的成员（即黑人和北非）与多数群体的成员相比，差异更大。最后，在语言因素方面，我们得到了参与者所在小组与图片中所代表的种族群体之间的互动：多数群体成员被视为代表少数群体的照片比代表多数群体的照片更多的不同，而参与者属于少数群体根据种族标准，各组认为照片之间没有差异。