The idea of identifies the best representative as the one who shares a similar racial, ethnic, religious, or occupational background with those he or she represents.

Social Representation

Explanation:

A social representation is a collection of common values, concepts, metaphors, beliefs, and behaviors among group and community members.

Within social psychology and sociological social psychology, theory of social representation is a body of research.

world war i had a devastating effect on german-americans and their cultural heritage. up until that point   german-americans, as a group, had been spared much of the discrimination, abuse, rejection, collective mistrust experienced by so many different racial and ethnic groups in the history of the united states. indeed, over the years, they had been viewed as a well integrated and esteemed part of american society. all of this change with the outbreak of war.