How can we encourage young children to accept all races as equal and to reject any form of racism?

Answer 1

Have you ever gone to a daycare and watched the children play. They do not care what color, religion, or background the other children are. Racism is a learned behavior that they learn from adults

Answer 2

You shouldn't encourage children to accept any sort of lie as the truth. Arguments such as "We all have red blood" mean nothing, since animals have red blood, too.

The races are different, and some of the differences are important ones. The average size of the brain is larger in some races than in others. The hormone balance differs from one race to another. And from those primary physical differences come consequential differences in mental ability and in behavior.

People once were much wiser about race than they generally are today. Questions like yours get lots of answers, and most of the answers are simple parrotings of the doctrine of racial equality. No thinking required: just monkey hear, monkey say.

The answers are many and verbose simply because everyone knows that everyone has been indoctrinated with the same racial equality dogma and that the way to "look smart" is to parrot it. It's primate display behavior. It's the same reason that religious people speak freely about their religious beliefs in their own churches: they know in advance that the majority opinion will be on their side, so they'll win the goody points debate if anyone dares to dissent from their statements.

But goody points have nothing whatever to do with truth. And the truth about race is that they are unequal and always have been. The truth is that the racists are mostly right and the racial egalitarians are mostly wrong. And you shouldn't teach lies such as "the races are equal" to children.

Racism is a preference for one's own race in relationships, and a desire to avoid contact with other races. Racism is acquired from experience with other races, and it is therefore the opposite of "prejudice."

Answer 3

Tell them, "Accept all races as equal and reject any form of racism."

Also, give them a true definition of racism -- not a false definition that only serves to advance some political agenda.

For instance, being against affirmative action is not racism. If anything, being in favor of it is.

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Answer 4

You can't force people to like people that they find disagreeable. As much as I keep hearing that racism is based on skin color I disagree. It is based more on differences in culture, customs and values. So unless a person is willing to abandon his or her way of viewing life in favour of others, which they may find repugnant, I don't see it happening.
I don't really see many very young children that display racism. It's a learnt behaviour that is developed as a result of their experiences interacting with other races. At a young age they usually haven't much to go on. Saying that racism is based on ignorance is in itself an ignorant and simplistic statement that merely serves as an excuse to dismiss the actual causes.

Answer 5

This is possible. We can teach our children anything we want, right? It'll take a consistent effort of punishing discrimination, celebrating things like interracial couples and love affairs in the media, and we'd have to finally integrate the schools. They are still segregated. You'll have some holdouts, but hey... the majority will get it.

Answer 6

Monkey see monkey do! You and the people that surround your children are the key to a happy healthy emotional child. With no race hangups. Go to different restaurant's...watch multicultural programs.. and remember these on one RACE the human RACE.
Love and educational conquers all only the IGNORANT and hateful are Racist.

Answer 7

The races are equal only in Gods eyes.

Answer 8

By the way they see you handle friendships with people of other races. Your attitude toward other races be they wit people at a restaurant or simply a person you pass on the street. You should be your childs biggest role model and you should be leading by example.

Answer 9

By positive exposure. Do you have any real friend of other races? If not just start talking and exposing them to other races at an early age. Always express the importance of equality.

Answer 10

Get children to homogenize their sense of difference, water down cultural customs, get all children to wear blue-eyed contact lenses so they look the same, get children to speak with the same accent, in the same inflection, tone and nuance, get children to play with racially-neutral Barbie dolls and stop them from watching any sitcom that has 'black' people in it.

In other words, it ain't gonna happen.

Stopping kids from seeing race is like me telling you that you are not allowed to urinate ever again. Stupid.