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[ghostrider]

According to Harvard's Implicit Association Test, over 80% of white people in America favor (at least unconsciously) their own racial group. Take the test for yourself-
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/racframe.htm

[PatrickGHBusan]

Yes

No testing required, just look around.

[flakfizer]

[Ninja-Bees]

So, lets break this down. Most people = White Americans. This is based on your post title and the content within.

[isisaredead]

[johnnyrook]

Little to no automatic preference between the two races. I did make two mistakes in the first paired sorting task (first time tried to sort a good word with white/bad, and the second time tried to sort a bad word with black/good). Those 48% with a strong preference for whitey must make a lot of mistakes.

You know though, a lot of us have spent a fair amount of time living in Korea, which should have weakened our sub-conscious positive response to our racial in-group (although, perhaps if you're a Westerner of Asian ethnicity, it might have actually strengthened it -but this test has nothing to do with Asians so won't really enlighten us on that fact), so I expect ESL teachers to do well on this ( assuming that not being racist is "doing well" - some might disagree).

[flakfizer]

[Captain Corea]

[hagwonnewbie]

Racism is natural. Its has been part of human survival strategy for tens of thousands of years. Every seeing animal uses visual cues to avoid predators.

That being said, I dislike being the object of discrimination here. It makes me appreciate the great accomplishments of civil rights leaders and educators in the US particularly who have fought so hard to demonstrate it uselessness in the modern world. We need to treat everyone as an individual and continue to remind ourselves and others of its negative presence.

[NovaKart]

I think the test is kind of stupid. How do they know that people aren't just influenced by associating white with good because that's the way the test was done the first time around?

[isisaredead]

it's almost sexy how smart you people are.

no, wait. it IS sexy.

yay.

[Triban]

[Fox]

[Kepler]

Malcolm Gladwell talks a lot about the IAT in his book Blink. Interestingly, the results of the test can be changed if people are shown pictures of black people who have done a lot of good in this world such as Nelson Mandela prior to taking the test:

[joelove]

I reckon most people have some racism in them. It's how we've been taught to think though we've also been told it's wrong to think that way. I guess most people in the world don't spend a lot of time with different races, seeing how homogeneous many places are. If not racist, then there's some awkwardness or discomfort with going outside the known. There's also language/culture exclusive to many in homogeneous areas. Exceptions may be made for the beautiful or famous/rich perhaps.