Oh, really... Well, not to burst your mythological bubble, but science disagrees with you... Now, back off to your little cultural marxist fantasy land... LOL!!!
See Baby Discriminate
Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do?
Her first step was to give the children a Racial Attitude Measure, which asked such questions as:
How many White people are nice?
(Almost all) (A lot) (Some) (Not many) (None)
How many Black people are nice?
(Almost all) (A lot) (Some) (Not many) (None)
During the test, the descriptive adjective "nice" was replaced with more than 20 other adjectives, like "dishonest," "pretty," "curious," and "snobby."
Vittrup sent a third of the families home with multiculturally themed videos for a week, such as an episode of Sesame Street in which characters visit an African-American family's home, and an episode of Little Bill, where the entire neighborhood comes together to clean the local park.
In truth, Vittrup didn't expect that children's racial attitudes would change very much just from watching these videos. Prior research had shown that multicultural curricula in schools have far less impact than we intend them toâlargely because the implicit message "We're all friends" is too vague for young children to understand that it refers to skin color.
Yet Vittrup figured explicit conversations with parents could change that. So a second group of families got the videos, and Vittrup told these parents to use them as the jumping-off point for a discussion about interracial friendship. She provided a checklist of points to make, echoing the shows' themes. "I really believed it was going to work," Vittrup recalls.
The last third were also given the checklist of topics, but no videos. These parents were to discuss racial equality on their own, every night for five nights.
At this point, something interesting happened. Five families in the last group abruptly quit the study. Two directly told Vittrup, "We don't want to have these conversations with our child. We don't want to point out skin color."
Vittrup was taken abackâthese families volunteered knowing full well it was a study of children's racial attitudes. Yet once they were aware that the study required talking openly about race, they started dropping out.
It was no surprise that in a liberal city like Austin, every parent was a welcoming multiculturalist, embracing diversity. But according to Vittrup's entry surveys, hardly any of these white parents had ever talked to their children directly about race.
http://www.newsweek.com/2009/09/04/see-baby-discriminate.html
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
"I do, like many others, have an affinity for my own group/culture. Then again, that's perfectly natural. "
You do know that children unconditioned by culture, don't have an affinity for their own group/culture. They don't see race, gender, etc. as a way to feel different, superior or inferior to others. They notice the differences, sure, but they don't attribute value to those differences. Culture does that dirty work.
Culture is not natural actually, culture is a shaping of the mind in a manner that is often most unnatural.
Just look at children who have not been polluted by their respective culture to see what is natural...
