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Your parents are to blame. You were a racist at age six months.
2017-04-13
Moved to Non-WoT.
And then relocated to bullshi*
[PHYS ORG] Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and their collaborators from the US, UK, France and China, show that six- to nine-month-old infants demonstrate racial bias in favour of members of their own race and racial bias against those of other races.

In the first study, "Older but not younger infants associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music", published in Developmental Science, results showed that after six months of age, infants begin to associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music.

In the second study, "Infants rely more on gaze cues from own-race than other-race adults for learning under uncertainty", published in Child Development, researchers found that six- to eight-month-old infants were more inclined to learn information from an adult of his or her own race than from an adult of a different race.

(In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases).
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  How do these infants respond to "rap."
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-13 19:36  

#13  Below the age of six months infants are not aware of strangers. After that inflection point they differentiate between people they know and everyone else. By eight months trailing daughter #1, whose short life had already held quite a few multi-week periods when Mr.Wife was on the far side of the world -- we accepted the transfer to Germany so that he would only be away about three days each week, and no more than one time zone away -- had clearly sorted the adult male population into Daddy, men with dark hair and mustaches who might be Daddy and therefore were promising targets, men with dark hair, and all other men. Women were sorted into Mommy, women she knew who were not Mommy, and all other women.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-13 16:23  

#12  "In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases".

Do they even have proper vision at less than six months?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-04-13 14:44  

#11  I'd bet toddler boys play with other toddler boys regardless of color over playing with toddler girls. Again familiarity.

Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-04-13 14:44  

#10  Only if you have a brain.
Posted by: gorb   2017-04-13 12:56  

#9  Um, isn't there definition of racism as happy v. sad music just a trifle problematic.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-13 11:40  

#8  This study forgot to mention that this only applies to infants of white parents.
Posted by: gorb   2017-04-13 10:06  

#7  Nonsense. Even toddlers are not racist.
Posted by: European Conservative   2017-04-13 09:40  

#6  Barry Soetoro and Colin Kaepernick being the odd exceptions.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-13 09:36  

#5  So infants prefer the familiar to the unfamiliar? Who, besides everyone who has ever been around one, knew?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-04-13 09:24  

#4  I'm not racist.

I just hate all you idiots equally.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-04-13 09:22  

#3  "It's the MAN infants keeping me down!"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-04-13 09:17  

#2  IMHO, the study reads like so much happy bull crap. Sounds like the researchers are reading their own biases and inferences into the study. How do they operationally define racism for 6-9 month old infants that is meaningful?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-13 08:54  

#1  Now that we've established that it's normal and has evidently always been that way, can we get on with getting the grown ups to calm down?
You would want to argue with science, would ya? (You might end up worming a Gerbil or something.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-04-13 08:26  

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