Experiments have shown that when they ask very young children to list the differences between each other, one child black and the other white, they NEVER mention skin colour! So I believe it has to be learned - but I wish someone would tell me the the reason for racism. I just believe it's an accident of birth where you are born or what colour. I have no problem with anyone at all.
Racism is nothing but someone's stupid idea. And were all racists. No one is innocent of discrimination. The only way to fight racism is to show love. A guy rejected me bc of my race said he wasn't into dating "my color" and i got angry and told him off. Later on I apologized and told him that I was sorry that I snapped and sorry he felt the way he did and I told him I forgave him. Later on we became friends. He told me that my kindness made him take interest in me....so through understanding and just talking things out people can get along and put petty shit behind them, like hating each other bc of aesthetics.
I don't know, my kids always say they hate the black dolls at the store, and recently a black girl joined my daughter's class and she told me about it. She said 'There's a new girl in my class, but she's brown' and made a yucky face. No one taught them that. Oh and one other time, my littlest one was mad at her dad and called him a 'black man' as an insult I guess.
They've obviously heard it from other 'racist' kids or maybe TV. My son went to nursery school until he was 4yo. One day he asked me what 'fat' meant. I asked him where he heard that word and he said the other kids were teasing a little girl about her mom. I asked what her mom looked like and he said she had blonde hair like me.
Another time he asked me if I'd had my hair dyed. When I asked him where he learned the word 'dyed' he said he just heard his teachers talking about me!
Never underestimate what they pick up!
In my home, we don't talk about other people in a nasty way or use insulting words that he may have heard. He never watched TV either so we were really in control of what he learned - except for nursery school :o( Funnily enough his best friend there was Chinese! We live in a very mixed community and I've never heard him describe anyone by colour, just as I wouldn't.
I know its awful to laugh at this, but I just couldnt help it at all. I probably would have laughed if my kids said this to me, which would be a terrible reinforcement.
I posted an example.
It's probably more relevant to people living in Africa.
(There's a local saying that "The difference between a tourist and a racist is one week")
In Short: Cultural differences between certain races in certain regions cause them to behave in a manner that is unacceptable by the standards of another race.
Can people control whether or not they're racist?
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Experiments have shown that when they ask very young children to list the differences between each other, one child black and the other white, they NEVER mention skin colour! So I believe it has to be learned - but I wish someone would tell me the the reason for racism. I just believe it's an accident of birth where you are born or what colour. I have no problem with anyone at all.
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Racism is nothing but someone's stupid idea. And were all racists. No one is innocent of discrimination. The only way to fight racism is to show love. A guy rejected me bc of my race said he wasn't into dating "my color" and i got angry and told him off. Later on I apologized and told him that I was sorry that I snapped and sorry he felt the way he did and I told him I forgave him. Later on we became friends. He told me that my kindness made him take interest in me....so through understanding and just talking things out people can get along and put petty shit behind them, like hating each other bc of aesthetics.
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Maybe one day he will consider trying out women of my color just bc I was nice instead of a total bitch. Kindness goes a much longer way.
I don't know, my kids always say they hate the black dolls at the store, and recently a black girl joined my daughter's class and she told me about it. She said 'There's a new girl in my class, but she's brown' and made a yucky face. No one taught them that. Oh and one other time, my littlest one was mad at her dad and called him a 'black man' as an insult I guess.
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They've obviously heard it from other 'racist' kids or maybe TV. My son went to nursery school until he was 4yo. One day he asked me what 'fat' meant. I asked him where he heard that word and he said the other kids were teasing a little girl about her mom. I asked what her mom looked like and he said she had blonde hair like me.
Another time he asked me if I'd had my hair dyed. When I asked him where he learned the word 'dyed' he said he just heard his teachers talking about me!
Never underestimate what they pick up!
In my home, we don't talk about other people in a nasty way or use insulting words that he may have heard. He never watched TV either so we were really in control of what he learned - except for nursery school :o( Funnily enough his best friend there was Chinese! We live in a very mixed community and I've never heard him describe anyone by colour, just as I wouldn't.
I know its awful to laugh at this, but I just couldnt help it at all. I probably would have laughed if my kids said this to me, which would be a terrible reinforcement.
I posted an example.
It's probably more relevant to people living in Africa.
(There's a local saying that "The difference between a tourist and a racist is one week")
In Short: Cultural differences between certain races in certain regions cause them to behave in a manner that is unacceptable by the standards of another race.