The child dressed as a 'baby bomber'

... The child dressed as a 'baby bomber', Daily Mail, Friday June 28,2002 1. The article depicts a Palestinian child clothed as a 'suicide bomber', with the underlying assumptions of inter-group discrimination between groups, social learning theory and conformity. One of the few certainties of the conflict is the discrimination between the two 'groups'. The attitude of the Palestinian side can be seen from the article, "a large bomb making factory and more than a hundred devices" as that of the Israelis, "Israeli forces swarmed into Hebron". From the situation it is clear ethnocentrism has been exploited. M.Sherif (1956) summer camp experiments suggest that just being in a group is enough to create ethnocentrism. Tajfel (1970) conducted 'The Minimal Group Studies' with the minimal group paradigm using empirical research involving 14 to 15 year olds boys, creating two situations, which give rise to ethnocentrism. Tajfel (1970) defined the situations as in-group out-group

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