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In the Cheerios commercial, a little girl put cereal on her African American dad's heart because her white mother said that cheerios helps the heart. The kids from the reaction video never even notice the colored parent in the commercial until it was pointed out to them. The commercial caused a lot of racial tension between many adult disapproving of the commercial put out by the people at Cheerios. The maker of the commercial said they wanted to depict a "normal family". To the kids who sees interracially marriage everyday on TV and YouTube, this is normal. 15 years ago you would never see something like this on TV. 2013, when the commercial was made, is a totally different time. Segregation had been abolished many years ago in America. People are more adapted to the peaceful coexistence of different race and culture. Even though I think we will never live in a world without discrimination due to race, I do think there will be much less of it. Basically from what I can see, there are different view. Anti-racist people’s image of a perfect world is when every race is intertwined to become one super race. The Pro-Racist people believe that it is just wrong to mix races together. There are argument on both side that to support their view own view. Pro-racist people argue the fact that it is it is unfair for the child. A bi-racial child doesn’t not have an identity. They would argue that single race children already has a hard time blending in with each other. Not knowing which race they belong with would actually make it even tougher on the child.
Anti-racist people on the other hand would argue that people should have the right to marry anyone they like no matter the race. People should not be discriminated due to the skin color. The video with the kid’s reaction is definitely an anti-racist view. They wanted to show that a kid have perspective on racist then the grown-ups.
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