Drich Wrote:Quote:Again as a child this matters because all higher functioning social activity first starts along racial lines. The first division is gender, then instinctively we subdivide by race. If we didn't this question that started this tread would be a non issue.
Children don't have any instinctive understanding of race, it's learned. A five-year old might guess her parents picked out her skin color before she was born, or that she's going to be purple when she grows up. They certainly notice differences between people, but their conclusions about what it means are, understandably, child like. Like guessing that the reason there was never a black president before Barack Obama is because it was illegal.
Children of parents with a racially diverse group of friends are the least likely to show a particular preference for friends of their own race. There's nothing instinctive about it, our attitudes concerning race are entirely learned.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
