Towards Consumer Ethnocentrism and Animosity in Indonesia

Subject Areas : General Management

Bayu Sutikno ¹ , Julian Ming-Sung Cheng ²

1 - PhD Candidate, Business Administration Department, National Central University, Chung-Li City, Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan.
2 - Associate Professor of Marketing, Business Administration Department, National Central University, Chung-Li City, Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan.

Received: 2011-01-08 Accepted : 2011-01-26 Published : 2011-03-20

Keywords: Animosity, Ethnocentrism, Attitude, Opposed country, Foreign country,

Abstract :

This current study aimed at investigating the effects of gender (male versus female) and age (younger versus older) on consumer ethnocentrism and animosity in Indonesia in regard to eight opposed countries. Based on the ANOVA test, the findings showed that female and young consumers have a higher political and economical animosity; while female and old consumers tend to have higher ethnocentrism. The Indonesian consumers are very ethnocentric; The United States of America and Malaysia found to be the two opposed countries with the highest score of animosity. The economic animosity is higher than politic animosity in China and Taiwan as the opposed countries. These findings can be utilized by marketers in designing marketing communication and segmentation