Do you think everyone is a little racist?

Question

i think most people are but i can honestly say that i dont stereotype. i know mad people are gonna say im lying but i honestly can ay that i have never stereotyped before. if i have than it probably has been on a small scale and not on race.

What do you think!

Answer 1

To a certain degree, in one form or another and from time to time, everyone has been.

Answer 2

I’ve to disagree with you.
Although it may sound funny to generalize and say that “everybody” stereotypes which is the main problem about generalizing.
Anyway I’ve studied stereotypes and participated in different events aiming to destroy stereotypes by enlightening people about the diversity of other people.

Not saying that everyone is a little racist but am going to say we all stereotype you will agree with me if you know more about stereotyping.

A "stereotype" is a generalization about a person or group of persons. We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all of the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. In the absence of the "total picture," stereotypes in many cases allow us to "fill in the blanks." Our society often innocently creates and perpetuates stereotypes, but these stereotypes often lead to unfair discrimination and persecution when the stereotype is unfavorable.

Influences of social behavior:
Cultural approaches to stereotypic behavior can be linked to the way that the stereotype is learned, transmitted, and changed.
The culture of an individual influences stereotypes through information that is received from indirect sources such as:
•Parents.
•Peers (Friends).
•Teachers.
•Leaders.
•Mass media.
Different characteristics that we stereotype:
•Races.
•Cultures.
•Clothing style.
•Hair styles.
•Economic statuses.
•Mannerisms / behavior.
•Languages.
•Jobs.
•Body size.

Four Characteristics of Stereotypes
1) Simple: certainly more simple than reality, but also often capable of being summarized in only two to three sentences.
2) Acquired Secondhand: people acquire (and absorb) stereotypes from cultural mediators rather than from their own direct experience with the groups being stereotyped.
3) Erroneous: all stereotypes are false. Some are less false than others, and (more importantly) some are less harmful tan others. But all are rendered false by their very nature. They are attempts to claim that each individual human being in a certain group shares a set of common qualities. Since an individual is different from all other individuals by definition, stereotypes are a logical impossibility. Even countertypes are false when they are presented as the "new" truth about a group and escape this label only when they are presented as possibilities rather than actualities.
4) Resistant to change.

Now tell me what do you think?

Answer 3

I was going to say no, but you made me thank (dangit). I really think I am not, but I was also raised in Iowa, and never saw anyone of ANY other race until I was in my teens...it took me a few years to get over "looking" intently at anyone who was different. I don't honestly think I 'assume' anything of anyone because of their color/race though, and I try not to. I have many black and hispanic friends, and quite a few jewish ones. I am traditional 'caucasian looking' but there is some mixing in my family (great- or great-great-grandma was black) and it really doesn't matter to me, in fact, I have frequently wished I was more interesting/exotic looking. (born redheaded, very pale, green/yellow eyes) Don't know if this really answers the question, but it's really what I'm thinking. Perhaps we are all a little racist, though, because we do notice the race difference when we see someone who 'looks' whatever.

Answer 4

I've been told that having stereotypes/generalizations are not the same as being racist. It's human nature to make assumptions that turn into generalizations about a group.

Went to a diversity class recently that highlighted this online testing (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.jsp). Even the woman conducting it was surprised by her results. If you have some time, you should try it.

Answer 5

No, maybe a little prejudice or stereotype, because sometimes its passed down in families

But I'm not racist

Answer 6

i think of it is genuine, there is only a sprint of hatred or lack of understanding in the direction of yet another race/nationality in all human beings human beings, whether we don't prefer to admit it. I even have pals from differnt cultural backgrounds and religions, yet i'm unable to declare i'm not racist. only using fact somebody has pals from diverse nationalities, that doesn't recommend they don't look to be racist. a stable occasion is New Zealand. it is customary as a multi-cultural us of a, and the white New Zealanders right here like telling others how welcome they are in the direction of different nationalities. yet this is all particularly purely a mask. i'm Asian, and that i grew up right here. i've got experienced and long previous by sufficient to have the skill to declare that the white New Zealand inhabitants is definitely racist. not all human beings is, yet there are a number of them who're. They ***** approximately how the Asians or the Muslims right here do not combine with the white inhabitants of latest Zealanders- in the event that they did not air their unfavorable critiques so brazenly approximately different races, then perhaps we would evaluate integrating. perhaps in case you purely confirmed a sprint extra tolerance in the direction of people who are not ecu or white New Zealander, we would only cosider becoming a member of your crusing golf equipment O_o only final month a piece of writing replaced into printed in a NZ mag, entitled, "Asian Angst- is it time to deliver some decrease back?". you are able to tell the author replaced into biased, using fact the "Asians" they distinctive have been directed at chinese language, Korean and Hong Kong human beings. i in my opinion, replaced into disgusted on the item. of course, the mag sparked somewhat some lawsuits from people who are not so ignorant, expressing the reality that the author additionally did not interview any Asians for his or her critiques. the factor is, a number of people who're racist act so using way they have been referred to and the ambience they grew up in. I even have some pals who're of Asian descent, or perhaps they have had unfavorable stories concerning the Caucasian inhabitants of NZ. There are some people who want the finished international might get alongside, yet whilst a small us of a like NZ can not even recover from their very own dislike in the direction of their Asian or Muslim neighbours, then i'm unable to declare there is a lot desire for something of the international, sorry. yet hi, we would all like to have international peace.

Answer 7

i think everyone is a little for example:) black girls say they dont have a problem with a black man being with a hispanic but as soon as they see the children they r like envious..i know i have s3 beautiful mix children and black women always have a problem ...especilally little black girls pulling at my daughters hair asking if its real! everyone just need to ease up

Answer 8

Maybe not racist but most people do judge other people by what they do or who they are and i think it's kinda the same thing

Answer 9

Well, I thinkl that D.L. Hughley is if you ever watched "The Hughleys". He was such a racist on that show. I hope he isn't really one in real life though (besides on the show).

Answer 10

I don't prejudge races, I judge people. Everyone I meet starts out at a hundred percent. If they go down, it's their fault.