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Ursprungligen postat av
-DaRude-
Det är inte särskilt sannolikt att barn i så små åldrar känner olust för andra invandrarbarn på det sättet. Detta beror sannolikt på föräldrarna och om de vill väl ska de hjälpa till att underlätta för båda grupper i mötet.
Stämmer tyvärr inte, och studier har, faktum är, bevisat att det istället är just precis tvärtom:
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Are Kids Racist?
(Not) talking about race with your children.
Published on April 2, 2013 by Kristina R. Olson, Ph.D. in Developing Minds
Maybe you remember the time your (White) three-year-old told his (Black) babysitter that he was glad his skin was “nicer than hers” or the time your five-year-old shouted that the (dark-skinned Latino) man at the end of the grocery aisle had “dirty skin”. At that moment maybe you wanted to shrink away in horror, disown your first-born, and forget the myths of blissful parenthood. What was going on there? How did you perfectly delightful, well-meaning, angel of a child, whom you’d raised to be so polite and socially-appropriate, suddenly take on the shape and sound of a raving racist? If you are like most parents, your child certainly never heard you say something like that.
Or maybe you are one of the parents, like many who enter my laboratory at Yale and like my closest friends and relatives, who explain that your child is definitely not aware of race—in fact, your child is that very product of Dr. King’s vision—able to treat others based on character rather than skin color.
In my experience as a developmental psychologist, White parents tend to fall into these two camps—those who recall in horror embarrassing incidents in which their children made racist comments to strangers or loved ones—and those who are certain their children are colorblind. In reality, our studies suggest neither portrayal is quite right. In fact, children are not blind to race.
Tvärt emot vad många självutnämnda antirasister påstår, så fann man alltså att föräldrar och praktiskt taget samtliga vita mödrar försökte ignorera ämnet ras allt vad de kunde för att motverka rasism hos barnen- inte understödja den, medan däremot icke-vita föräldrar pratar öppet om ras och etnicitet hela tiden:
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Rebecca Bigler and her colleagues at UT-Austin found that nearly all White mothers in their research study adopted a “colormute”/ “colorblind” approach when discussing a book that was either directly or indirectly about race with their 4-5 year old children; most chose not to discuss race at all. (In case you wonder why I’m focusing on White parents here, previous work has demonstrated that as opposed to White parents, parents of minority children in the U.S., do talk about race and ethnicity quite regularly.)
Vilket dock inte hjälpte, då studier visat att redan mycket små barn inte bara registrerar ras hela tiden, även när vuxna försöker få dem att växa upp "ras-neutralt", utan även konstant favoriserar vissa raser framför andra, trots alltså deras föräldrars försök att vara "antirasistiska":
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What’s more, decades of research suggests that even if parents are not talking about race, children are noticing it, so avoidance will not make it go away.
By 3 or 4 years of age, White children in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe show preferences for other White children. For example, while parents of children in the storybook study above predicted that their children would show no race bias, the children did on average tend to favorite Whites to Blacks.
Results like these demonstrate that those very same White children whose parents insist their children do not see race, walk into research labs across the world and, when presented with a line-up of possible friends, are quick to select the White ones rather than the Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Indigenous ones.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/developing-minds/201304/are-kids-racist
