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.
Can people control whether or not they're racist?
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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.