Shocking Racial “Stereotypes” By Brian Simpson
This story goes back only to 2019:
“Children associate being 'brilliant' with white men, but not black men, a shocking new study suggests.
Researchers surveyed 200 children and found that, regardless of their own race, they linked the stereotype of intelligence with white men much more than white women.
However, by contrast, the stereotype wasn't applied to black men, as black women were seen by the children as smarter.
The New York University team says the findings feed into patterns of stereotypes that discourage children of color and women from pursuing careers like those in science and technology, where being seen as an intelligent person is valued.
Among adults, gender stereotypes apply differently to men and women depending on their race,' said senior author Dr Andrei Cimpian, an associate professor in NYU's department of psychology.
'That's why it is important to consider how gender and race intersect when examining children's gender stereotypes about intellectual ability.'
For the study, published in the Journal of Social Issues, the team recruited 200 five and six-year-olds from public elementary schools in New York City.
Researchers showed the children photographs of eight pairs of adults - a woman and a man of the same race - in a setting such as a home or office.
The kids were then told one of the two adults was 'really, really smart' and asked to guess which adult was the smart one.
Overall, the results showed that children named the white men in the photographs as the 'smart person' compared to the white women.”
https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/josi.12352
Naturally the establishment screams “racism,” but even so, the “stereotype” was not applied to Black men, with Black women being perceived as smarter by the children, which would contradict the universal racism hypothesis. Yet a more plausible explanation is that this fits into a pattern of evidence showing that racial awareness is wired into the brain, so for example, babies can distinguish between races, and link the languages:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dev.21851
“Research demonstrates that young infants attend to the indexical characteristics of speakers, including age, gender, and ethnicity, and that the relationship between language and ethnicity is intuitive among older children. However, little research has examined whether infants, within the first year, are sensitive to the co‐occurrences of ethnicity and language. In this paper, we demonstrate that by 11 months of age, infants hold language‐dependent expectations regarding speaker ethnicity. Specifically, 11‐month‐old English‐learning Caucasian infants looked more to Asian versus Caucasian faces when hearing Cantonese versus English (Studies 1 and 3), but did not look more to Asian versus Caucasian faces when paired with Spanish (Study 2), making it unlikely that they held a general expectation that unfamiliar languages pair with unfamiliar faces. Moreover, infants who had regular exposure to one or more significant non‐Caucasian individuals showed this pattern more strongly (Study 3). Given that infants tested were raised in a multilingual metropolitan area—which includes a Caucasian population speaking many languages, but seldom Cantonese, as well as a sizeable Asian population speaking both Cantonese and English—these results are most parsimoniously explained by infants having learned specific language–ethnicity associations based on those individuals they encountered in their environment.”
Even more shocking, “infants show racial bias toward members of their own race and against those of other races”:
“Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and their collaborators from the US, UK, France and China, show that six- to nine-month-old infants demonstrate racial bias in favour of members of their own race and racial bias against those of other races.
In the first study, "Older but not younger infants associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music", published in Developmental Science, results showed that after six months of age, infants begin to associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music.
In the second study, "Infants rely more on gaze cues from own-race than other-race adults for learning under uncertainty", published in Child Development, researchers found that six- to eight-month-old infants were more inclined to learn information from an adult of his or her own race than from an adult of a different race.
(In both studies, infants less than six months of age were not found to show such biases).
Racial bias begins at younger age, without experience with other-race individuals
"The findings of these studies are significant for many reasons," said Dr. Kang Lee, professor at OISE's Jackman Institute of Child Study, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and lead author of the studies. "The results show that race-based bias already exists around the second half of a child's first year. This challenges the popular view that race-based bias first emerges only during the preschool years."
Researchers say these findings are also important because they offer a new perspective on the cause of race-based bias.
"When we consider why someone has a racial bias, we often think of negative experiences he or she may have had with other-race individuals. But, these findings suggest that a race-based bias emerges without experience with other-race individuals," said Dr. Naiqi (Gabriel) Xiao, first author of the two papers and postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.
This can be inferred because prior studies from other labs have indicated that many infants typically experience over 90 per cent own-race faces. Following this pattern, the current studies involved babies who had little to no prior experience with other-race individuals.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/desc.12537
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.12798
The Leftist position on race, advanced by the likes of Stephen Jay Gould, seems to be increasingly undermined by recent research, even in our present woke culture. Just imagine if there was genuine freedom to investigate race and gender issues:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-018-0152-x
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