I’m sorry but the dashboard doesn’t suggest anything. Society gives meaning and creates real outcomes. The dashboard example could makes sense theoretically and methodologically if you are making distinctions between people that racially identify as groups of color versus those that racially identify as white and want to show results visually.
Although there’s research indicating that infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries generally are environmentally acquired. More than language, adult racist sentiments are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from one’s environment.
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. Human infancy is the prime (if not the only) time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction characteristics into a very young mind.
COMMENTS
BY Regine
ON December 2, 2021 11:29 AM
Thank you for this read! Clear and actionable!
BY Kam
ON December 3, 2021 08:04 AM
I’m sorry but the dashboard doesn’t suggest anything. Society gives meaning and creates real outcomes. The dashboard example could makes sense theoretically and methodologically if you are making distinctions between people that racially identify as groups of color versus those that racially identify as white and want to show results visually.
BY Frank Sterle Jr.
ON December 3, 2021 01:57 PM
Although there’s research indicating that infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries generally are environmentally acquired. More than language, adult racist sentiments are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from one’s environment.
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. Human infancy is the prime (if not the only) time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction characteristics into a very young mind.