Race study, 1st views on raceFollow

How many years until we stop lumping ourselves in with the decisions made by previous generations?

Edited, May 20th 2010 1:48pm by Bardalicious

5 year old children would pick light over dark images because lighter tones bring positive images to mind. 5 year old children don't over think things like adults do they associate the colour with a feeling and choose the closest word match.

I wouldn't have expected any other result from this study in a perfect world where racism didn't exist. You're asking young children to rate images, all other things being equal, by brightness (as in colour tone). Lighter tones = positive thinking = good, you'd get the same result if you asked them to rate various painted rooms.

This is why the black children are also more likely to rate the lighter toned images as good.

Not to say that if your environment involves racism you won't pick up on it at that age but the study is very flawed.

Yeaaa, unless you have research backing up your "lighter tones = positive thinking = good" I can't really say that your baseless suppositions really mean anything

I was thinking sausage grinder, but whatever.

It's like a twisted game of Russian roulette.

Kenyans must walk around in a state of permanent terror. Probably why they run so fast, I expect.

Haha

It's not really a fear response so much as a be slightly more wary of darker creatures thing, makes sense in nature, but irrational when it's other people that you're seeing. The people involved aren't suddenly frightened when a black dude walks into the room, but according to their brain scans they're slightly more attentive which could translate down to all kinds of unintended bigotry.

It's only one study of course and I have no idea how good it is.

Didn't have time to look up that stuff yesterday, but the colour info is well documented. We associate colours with feelings. Red = Danger/alarm, Black = Unknown/suspicious, White = Sterile/clean/pure, Orange = Energetic/makes you want to eat etc. So all things being equal we'll revert back to our more basic triggers to make judgments about things. Now, obviously people aren't just colours, so this isn't really an issue, unless of course you ask a 5 year old to choose good vs bad on identical pictures with different colours in a racism test.

Of course not, if you're only going to read one line from the study.



Thus all black people were received the same, but skin tone was significant when looking at pictures of white people.