I'm a grown up man, but I've heard racist comments comng from kids as young as grade 3. Is it because the parents talk about other races right in front of thier kids?
2007-01-11 14:58:24 · 16 answers · asked by AUCT!ON 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I want to know your opinion in this particular issue.
2007-01-11 14:58:49 · update #1
I want to know your opinion in this particular issue.
2007-01-11 14:58:50 · update #2
I haven't seen a tremendous amount of kids like that, but it still occurs here and there.
2007-01-11 15:04:00 · update #3
No you are so right. My daughter is 3 and came home from DAYCARE talking about how she doesn't want to play with the brown doll, she wants the yellow (haired) one! I can't believe people would instill this into their children.
And then they all get on YA and ask questions that start with "Well I'm not a racist but..."
lol
2007-01-11 15:08:02 · answer #1 · answered by Baby 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Young children (elementary age through grade school) have not yet developed their own sets of ideals and beliefs. Young children do not have the reasoning capabilities to make such distinctions. They basically "parrot" what they hear and observe from the people around them. It is only in the later years of high school and college that kids truely begin to break away from their parents and start sorting out their own stances on issues like racism, religion, politics, etc.
Unfortunatly, by then, sometimes the damage is already done. Because even though young adults do start to "think for themselves", those thought patterns are highly influenced by their childhood enviroment and experiences. That is why they say that being a parent is the most important job in the world. Everything you do shapes not only your child's present well being, but their future one as well.
2007-01-11 23:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by Camirra 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is because the mere term racism is constantly before the public
either in the news, in questions like yours or elsewhere. It's almost like anything anyone says is carefully measured as to
whether it is offending the rights of others. I honestly think people are overly sensitive to this. I don't think I've ever heard
anyone say that middle easterners buring the American flag
are racists.
It's one thing to talk about other races and their
differences...it's quite another to degrade one solely because of their race. However, many people consider a person a racism
if he even so much as points out the differences in one's race.
To say a person is a Jew or is White or is Black
is not racism. To say a person is less of a human being because he is a Jew or is White or is Black is genuinely utter
disrespect, egotisitic and disgusting. You may call that
racism, I call it just what it really is spelled out in the sentence
above. I believe that description carries more weight.
2007-01-11 23:17:58 · answer #3 · answered by Northwest Womps 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I totally blame the parents. How can it not be their fault? When my daughter was 3 my ex husband would use the n word all the time & I flipped out on him(we were divorced by then) but he told my daughter it was ok since he was saying it to his best friend. Now I didn't want my 3 year old to have to take sides between her mom & dad so what I said right in front of them both Ok dad if you think that it's ok to say that word & I'm wrong let's go for a ride to Harlem &you can scream it then we'll show our daughter if I'm wrong. He never used that word again & my daughter who's now 14 knows what the word means & has & never will use bad words to down any ethnic group.
2007-01-11 23:16:28 · answer #4 · answered by gitsliveon24 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's very sad. It seems like ignorant parents are poisoning their children's minds. My 4th grader asked me not too long ago what a racist was and I told her what the nasty word meant so she'd be prepared later on in life if she encountered racism. And the sad part was that she didn't quite understand why anyone would hate another person because of where they're from or their skin color....
2007-01-11 23:14:35 · answer #5 · answered by precious_jules81 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Children learn from their parents, or people who are close to them in their lives. I live in a community where a racist man handed out flyers from a white supremist group 1 Block from the elementary. This same mans son called by son a racist term about jewish people. It shocked me and when I called the principal at the school and told her, she had never heard that term. She had a assembly within a week about name calling.
2007-01-11 23:04:18 · answer #6 · answered by Virginia C 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is so because when they're so young, their only interaction space is at home with their parents. They listen, they learn, they imitate. It is in the same fashion that we learn our values, our ethics, etc. It just so happens that they pick that up from mommy and daddy as well.
Personally, I think that this only proves how parenting is deteriorating over time. We really have to watch what we say, what we do, and even what we hint at (kids eventually learn how to spell, so forget spelling out d-o-c-t-o-r). They are a reflection of us, and we have to get on top of that and educate them on everything-not just colors and shapes!
2007-01-11 23:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by nerdlovercl 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The are definateky influenced by the adults in their lives. I don't understand why they would force their opinions on the very young, who absorb everything. I came from a racist home and thankfully I do not agree. I realized that I was able to form my own opinion.
2007-01-11 23:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
My children are being taught to be racially aware but not hateful or mean to other children. They have to learn to tolerate other races in the real world to a certain degree but they never have to interact with them on a personal level nor are they encouraged to.
2007-01-11 23:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even younger than that. The reason is being "racist" is natural. They haven't yet been indoctrinated with political correctness and been told to hide their true feelings.
Mother nature makes most of us racist: blacks by and large are not as smart and much more prone to criminality than whites. Asians are generally smarter than the other races. These are proven facts.
2007-01-12 00:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by Moses Dupree 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋