I asked my uncle once during the holidays what racism felt like or if he had ever faced it, then he said he had faced it and felt it but didn’t really bother about it any longer. He went on to further explain to me that the worst kind of racism was institutional racism, where […]
RACISM AND COLOURISM: TWO SIDES TO A COIN
RACISM AND COLOURISM: TWO SIDES TO A COIN
March 6, 2022
fgsjr2015
Mar 07, 2022 @ 22:40:08
Although there are research results indicating infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries generally are environmentally acquired. Adult racist sentiments are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from one’s environment.
Therefore, one means of proactively preventing this social/societal problem may be by allowing young children to become accustomed to other races in a harmoniously positive manner. The early years are typically the best time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction life skills/traits, like interracial harmonization, into a very young brain/mind. I can imagine that this would also be particularly important to achieve within one’s religious community. …
At a very young and therefore impressionable age, I was emphatically told by my mother (who’s of Eastern European heritage) about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our Black family doctor. She never had anything disdainful to say about people of different races; in fact, she still enjoys watching/listening to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channel. I believe that her doing so had a very positive and lasting effect on me.
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Mohenjo
Mar 08, 2022 @ 06:41:50
I pray for more mothers like yours, I believe that racism is one of the many things taught on the mother’s knee. Thanks for the comment even though I reblogged the article. I believe that all likes on a reblogged article should go to the person who published it. WordPress does not do that.
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unholypursuit
May 21, 2022 @ 01:32:59
How do infants know what race they are?
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Mohenjo
May 21, 2022 @ 16:02:44
They don’t!
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unholypursuit
May 27, 2022 @ 04:33:03
Thanks. 🙂
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fgsjr2015
May 23, 2022 @ 03:06:33
Instinctual, perhaps; but apparently they do.
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Mohenjo
May 23, 2022 @ 05:31:34
Show the proof and not conjecture!
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unholypursuit
May 27, 2022 @ 04:15:40
Mmm, I didn’t know babies knew the difference. I don’t believe babies know this. I believe they are taught it. Children of all races will play happily together if adults do not insert their prejudice in the mix. But I found an article on the subject. That’s new to me. 🙂
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/if-babies-and-toddlers-can-detect-race-why-do-so-many-parents-avoid-talking-about-it/
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fgsjr2015
Mar 12, 2022 @ 01:53:22
Racist sentiment is typically handed down generation to generation, regardless of color or creed. If it’s deliberate, it’s something I strongly feel amounts to a form of child abuse: to rear one’s impressionably very young children in an environment of overt bigotry — especially against other races and/or sub-racial groups (i.e. ethnicities).
Not only does it fail to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly racially/ethnically diverse and populous society and workplace, it also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural/-racial surroundings.
Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their race or ethnicity predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so.
If not for themselves, parents then should do their young children a big favor and NOT pass down onto their very impressionable offspring racially/ethnically bigoted feelings and perceptions, nor implicit stereotypes and ‘humor’, for that matter. Ironically, such rearing can make life much harder for one’s own children.
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