Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Racial Bias

The test that I took tells me that I have a slight automatic preference for white people compared to blacks.  I think that this just shows that there is a racial bias in a lot of people, making it take longer to associtate blacks with good things.  I grew up in a more diverse setting in St. Louis where there was still racism but people weren't uncomfortable around other races.  Here I find that people don't feel comfortable around people of other races.  I'm not suprised that it said that I was slightly biased towards blacks, almost everyone has some sort of bias.  I have no clue why it said I was bias, I guess I just took longer to select blacks with good words.  Obviously everyone has sterotypes, whether it be towards people of other races or people of the opposite sex, everyone has them.  Deep in the back of our minds we associate things together.  Like if we see on the news that a black man commited a crime, we start thinking that all black people are bad, even though they are not. I don't ever think that our sterotypes and bias' will ever go away.

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