The Surprising Link Between Trust and Racism

[Mister D]

Racism is the wrong term to use but it is an interesting study nonetheless.

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Trusting people essentially means assuming they are what they seem to be, which, if we don’t actually know the person, can lead us to rely on stereotypes. It’s a form of complacency. Not trusting someone means we’re not sure if a person is what they seem to be or not, and that makes us pay close attention to the actual information we have rather than vague generalities.

The Dutch psychologist Carsten K.W. De Dreu has found that oxytocin, the so-called “love hormone” that drives mothers to bond with their newborns and may play a role in romantic love, also has the effect of making people more ethnocentric. People given doses of oxytocin, he found, tended to discount the value of the lives of those of different ethnicities. The impressive human capacity for connection and cohesion, in other words, is difficult to disentangle from the tendency to create an out-group against which to unite.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles...inked-to-trust

[Cigar]

Ms. Jane Elliott's "brown eyes, blue eyes" experiment in 1970 (the third one after her first in 1968).

This "Eye of Storm" documentary was made by William Peters in 1970 for ABC News and later included in the documentary "A Class Divided" (1985), which included a class reunion (of 1984.)






It's one thing to talk and write about it ... and then there's another thing to actually live it.

[Mister D]

[Cigar]

Game-Set-Match

[Mister D]

Seriously...

[Alyosha]

It's a good thing most people born after 1980 aren't like this because then when everyone who was a hippie in the 60s or danced at Studio 54 in the 70's dies off we won't have to hear people even mention racism.

Guess what people? Kids today date across race lines. Gay kids and transgender kids are elected homecoming queen. We don't care about your baggage and bull$#@!. Wake up to the new world where social media connects people and dispels old myths.

If you oldies didn't create racial tension and drama just to stay relevant we'd never have to think about it at all.

[Mister D]

It's a good thing most people born after 1980 aren't like this because then when everyone who was a hippie in the 60s or danced at Studio 54 in the 70's dies off we won't have to hear people even mention racism.

Guess what people? Kids today date across race lines. Gay kids and transgender kids are elected homecoming queen. We don't care about your baggage and bull$#@!. Wake up to the new world where social media connects people and dispels old myths.

If you oldies didn't create racial tension and drama just to stay relevant we'd never have to think about it at all.

The study, among others, suggests the "baggage" is at least partly genetic. Did you have a comment on the study?

[Cigar]

It's a good thing most people born after 1980 aren't like this because then when everyone who was a hippie in the 60s or danced at Studio 54 in the 70's dies off we won't have to hear people even mention racism.

Guess what people? Kids today date across race lines. Gay kids and transgender kids are elected homecoming queen. We don't care about your baggage and bull$#@!. Wake up to the new world where social media connects people and dispels old myths.

If you oldies didn't create racial tension and drama just to stay relevant we'd never have to think about it at all.

The Races are mixing faster than the Racist.

Soon everyone will have Flavor

[Mister D]

The Races are mixing faster than the Racist.

Soon everyone will have Flavor

Actually, considering the great diversity of American society the rate of admixture is quite low.

[Alyosha]

The study, among others, suggests the "baggage" is at least partly genetic. Did you have a comment on the study?

You're describing the Germany study about artificially creating "distrust" to engender more skeptical, "reasonable" thinking, yes?

Where is the genetic quality? Do you mean oxytocin? It's in all breast milk and is released during all vaginal births.