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At the Heart of Racism
Gabriella Israel
Writing English Andrea Lynn Strudensky Thursday, October 10, 2013
Our surroundings, such as the media, our parents, our peers, and our educators, are the key factors that have an influence on our perspective in terms of racism. For this reason, it can unconsciously dictate our feelings and thoughts. This hypothesis is based on Dr. Frances Aboud’s argument, that racism is innate in comparison to Gwynne Dyer’s argument, that racism occurs in the case where an individual has never experienced a relationship with any other racial group. ”. she says that we all come into this world with a prejudice frame of mind,
The essay “P Is for Prejudice”, written by Allen Abel, states Dr. Frances Aboud’s main thesis on racism. Through her extensive research, this McGill University professor who specializes in childhood racial awareness claims that “prejudice is biological” and that “discrimination was wired into our brain at conception”. In her research, she discovered that 50 to 60 percent of 5 year old are prejudice. Furthermore, she found that 5 times out of 6 white kids choose the drawing of a white character for a positive attribute, and they choose the drawing of a black character as the negative one. As a result, she says that these kids don’t become prejudice because of their parents view or their school view on racism. In fact, she believes that the reason why we are all born prejudice is because
Gabriella Israel
Writing English Andrea Lynn Strudensky Thursday, October 10, 2013
Our surroundings, such as the media, our parents, our peers, and our educators, are the key factors that have an influence on our perspective in terms of racism. For this reason, it can unconsciously dictate our feelings and thoughts. This hypothesis is based on Dr. Frances Aboud’s argument, that racism is innate in comparison to Gwynne Dyer’s argument, that racism occurs in the case where an individual has never experienced a relationship with any other racial group. ”. she says that we all come into this world with a prejudice frame of mind,
The essay “P Is for Prejudice”, written by Allen Abel, states Dr. Frances Aboud’s main thesis on racism. Through her extensive research, this McGill University professor who specializes in childhood racial awareness claims that “prejudice is biological” and that “discrimination was wired into our brain at conception”. In her research, she discovered that 50 to 60 percent of 5 year old are prejudice. Furthermore, she found that 5 times out of 6 white kids choose the drawing of a white character for a positive attribute, and they choose the drawing of a black character as the negative one. As a result, she says that these kids don’t become prejudice because of their parents view or their school view on racism. In fact, she believes that the reason why we are all born prejudice is because