theshadowman said:
i saw a special on kids saying racist things, yet it has said to be alright because if we were not suspicious of other people then terrorism or attacks could happen daily just thought that was an interesting special
I think the more interesting set of conclusions to come from this is the idea that racism is NOT a learned behavior, but a natural instict we have built in to protect us from rival tribes and even other human species. It makes a certain amount of sense, especially the heightened form of this reflex in Europeans. Europeans, of all the populations of
homo Sapiens, were the last to out-compete the other local human species (neandetals) and so we have a more skeptical eye towards brow and nose shape and other charactaristics we find "scary."
I remember when I was quite small (4-6, I'd say) I used to be scared of Black People... not because of anything I learned from my parents but simply because I they were unlike anyone in my family, who were all I knew.