Garrett is a high school drop-out who has been looking for a good job for six months. He blames all the immigrants for his lack of a job rather than his lack of an education and employers' choice to hire illegal aliens as employees without paying taxes. Garrett's hostility toward the immigrants is an example of

a. scapegoating.
b. group prejudice.
c. symbolic prejudice.
d. stereotyped aggression.


A

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