Correspondence biasing, Just world and Reinforcement in Society?

Yesterday, my colleagues were discussing the different races' characters and their personal views on them during breakfast and lunch. Oh, how they all agreed lofting one particular race's so call in born "personality". Overhere I'm going to discuss this particular race and label it as B and the way it relates to people's believe in a just world ( assuming good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people and in fairness of the world ) and correspondence bias ( the tendency to assume that other people's actions and words reflect their personality,their attitudes or some other internat factor rather than external or situational factors ) enacting in our discussion and reinforcement from our society towards this race..

It all started when one of my colleague JE was just complaining the fussiness of our sudsidaries demanding only to employ only certain races but not other races. Then HY and NBZ started citing examples of their laziness and working attitudes Most felt that this race seldom wants to work, picks social support easily, takes advantage of the society's sympathy and is one of the less educated race of all.

When the government came up with the baby bonus, immediately, you'll see more of them popping even more though they were originally very productive in the area, they produced even more as past year statistic shows their race population increasing. Regardless of their financial status, increase they must, to achieve the baby bonus even if its only a small token.

Most of the time, they take the small token and spend it on their housing/furniture or a holiday, cases cited by one of my colleagues,JE. Her best friend who is race B, has a cousin who took the whole family to Malaysia for a week after she gave birth to her third child with the current husband. That is after her confinement period. After spending all their money there, they came back and within two months, announced she is pregnant again... Now, her family isn't rich, her husband's only a bus driver, earning about a thousand bucks. The wife is a housewife and was a remarried case with one from previous marriage. So in total there's 6 in the family all staying in a four-room HDB flat. They are now reaching and asking for social welfare which is a sad case if they had gone for the birth control. However, they planned to have her pregnant again in order to get more social relief from their community and social welfare club ( which is supporting more of these cases ).

Another commented that it is their nature to be lazy, as they only search for work when they need money but goes AWOL when the tough gets going... Else they get many sick leaves whenever they can in order not to work but when it comes to credit, most would try to claim it ( which I find quite true in some cases and not only in their race, though this could be more of a correspondence bias on my side too ).

Whereas, when it comes to education, because of their working behaviour, most are too poor to send their children in for education and this is even though only their race's education fees were heavily subsidised by the government which I guess its due to our geographical location which spells more advantage to them on creating riots and wars if they all goes to our neighbours and be their spies.

But then, to reflect upon it, trying not to have correspondence biasing, if the society doesn't pamper them too much, would they learn to be more independant ?

It is because of the society's reinforment of rewards, that is they are in their low point, they will get social support in terms of money and they will help them to look for a job too. Though the social support group sounds like they are teaching this race to be independant, but they always go back to their old ways as they mostly found it easier to just reach out and beg for social welfare than to work since it is so easily given to them because of the example set by the government with their political issues around the old age race.

Personally, I am a believer of a"just" world, so I do take an offense when our pledge states on equality, it is really not true and so far, it definitely isn't true in the education and housing. Race B gets subsidy in the education and housing regardless of being rich or poor wheares people like you and I have to pay more just to upkeep our depleting Treasury. If they are really poor, I wouldn't mind my taxes contributing to their subsidy in education and housing, but when they are richer than us or of the same financial status as me, I do mind my taxes contributing to their subsidies. Isn't this a sad case for a developed world like ours to practise this double standard?

After last Wednesday's lecture and reflecting back on week before's breakfast and lunch discussion, I realised we all were victims of the two theories presented above, however, there must be sufficient situations where we've seen their way of doing things and cases we've heard of people commenting about this race's attitudes from our friends and family to influence our biases and attitudes towards them. ( Opps, isn't this defensive attributions on my view?? , isn't there a way to get around social psychology's theories ? )