Children in ethnically mixed classes of elementary and special schools
(N = 2128, 14% of them Gypsies) were examined by peer nomination meth
od. Additional data were obtained from teachers. In elementary schools
, the hypothesized tendency not to accept and to reject children of th
e other ethnos was confined. In special schools, interethnic relations
hips were found much better. Both Gypsies and non-Gypsies also preferr
ed same-sex children of their own as well as of the other ethnos.