Ethnic minority group members’ responses to their prejudicial treatment can take several forms. One involves identity concealment (e.g., ‘passing’). In order to understand such a response, we must explore participants’ understandings of the interactional context before them, their meta-perceptions of the identity others ascribe to them, and the varied meanings that identity concealment/non-disclosure may have in that context. Our analysis of interview data (N = 30) obtained with Roma in Hungary reveals diverse forms of, and motivations for, the concealment of their Roma identity. Some participants reported examples of proactive identity concealment, others reported more reactive forms (in which they went along with others’ mistaken assumptions concerning their identity). The motivations for identity concealment (whether proactive or reactive) included the desire to: secure material benefits; avoid conflict; take pleasure from seeing others’ assumptions blinding them to the reality before them; test (and expose) majority group members’ attitudes; allow themselves opportunities to experience the world in new ways. Our analysis highlights the importance of social identity researchers recognizing the diverse motivations for ethnic identity concealment: From the actors’ perspective concealment is not always assimilatory, and in some contexts can be experienced as empowering.

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民族身份隐藏和披露：背景和策略

少数族裔群体成员对其偏见待遇的反应可以采取多种形式。一种涉及身份隐藏（例如，“通过”）。为了理解这样的反应，我们必须探索参与者对他们面前的交互背景的理解，他们对他人赋予他们的身份的元认知，以及身份隐藏/不披露在这种背景下可能具有的不同含义。我们对采访数据的分析（N = 30) 在匈牙利与罗姆人一起获得，揭示了隐藏其罗姆人身份的多种形式和动机。一些参与者报告了主动隐藏身份的例子，其他人报告了更多的反应形式（他们同意其他人对自己身份的错误假设）。隐藏身份的动机（无论是主动的还是被动的）包括希望： 确保物质利益；避免冲突；乐于看到别人的假设使他们对眼前的现实视而不见；测试（并揭露）多数群体成员的态度；让自己有机会以新的方式体验世界。我们的分析强调了社会身份研究人员认识到种族身份隐藏的不同动机的重要性：