Summary: Even Babies Discriminate

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Society- The Future’s Prime Sculptor of Children's Vision on Discrimination

Race ultimately and simply can be defined as just color. After watching the “Journey of Man” documentary and reading “Even Babies Discriminate,” it is irrefutable that we all originate from the same place, East Africa. Both sources embrace each other’s essential points: “race” is not biological, but indeed it can be better defined as a social construct established by society by past generations and is carried on by everyone today. The environment we live in can easily influence our actions and ideas. Different environments can enable a healthy, stable, and mostly a crime free atmosphere, or, they can enable a poisonous atmosphere flooding with misconduct infecting the youth. Fundamentally, society has the
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The first major point is about seeing children’s Racial Attitude Measure. Birgitte Vittrup, a children’s researcher from the Lab at the University of Texas, recruited a hundred Caucasian families with a child five to seven years old. The goal of her study was to test children’s racial attitudes with the help of multicultural videos, sets of questions, and checklists for parent-led discussions. A second point is that “race is only an issue if we allow it to become one.” All the negatives that arise about race sadly culminate to universal discrimination that children become aware of at a young age. Additionally, the article clearly articulates how children are prone to group everything, including themselves, and develop favoritism to certain activities and appearances. Statistically speaking, it is proven that at third grade, children would almost fully develop their own opinions on race. It is difficult for parents to attempt in altering their child’s views and knowledge of different colored people and hard to show them that having interracial friendships is