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Author: turtoniturtoni Date: Oct 25, 2007 23:14
"If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
into "us" and "them."
Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
successful-steps to combat them.
Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary
Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and
anthropologist Robert Kurzban, of the University of California at Los
Angeles, wanted to test whether this was innate or whether it was just
an artifact of how society groups individuals by race.
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Author: tgtg Date: Oct 26, 2007 05:31
On Oct 26, 2:14 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
Excellent post. Scientific confirmation of what is evident in
general---when times are good, people tend to forget this stuff unless
it is reinforced by the government for its own interests. As in the
last 7 years.
-tg
> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the...
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Author: zinniczinnic Date: Oct 26, 2007 08:49
On Oct 26, 1:14 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
> into "us" and "them."
>
> Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
> and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
> successful-steps to combat them.
>
> Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
> people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
> individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
> Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary
> Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and
> anthropologist Robert Kurzban, of the University of California at Los
> Angeles, wanted to test whether this was innate or whether it was just
> an artifact of how society groups individuals by race.
>
> To do this, Cosmides and her colleagues made a video of two racially ...
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Author: toolytooly Date: Oct 26, 2007 10:36
> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
> into "us" and "them."
>
> Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
> and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
> successful-steps to combat them.
>
> Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
> people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
> individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
> Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary
> Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and
> anthropologist Robert Kurzban, of the University of California at Los
> Angeles, wanted to test whether this was innate or whether it was just
> an artifact of how society groups individuals by race.
> ...
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Date: Oct 26, 2007 11:46
> [...[ I'm sure one as you would deem those like me as pigheaded. I think
> 'first and foremost' through my OWN senses, my own brain, my own capacity
> to understand. And I tell you, I think the King is naked...and the
> multicultural steamroller we have been clubbed with in the west is a
> crock...rife with political activism, dimetrically opposed to western
> ideaology, Christianity, traditional family, and everything that once made
> us strong and whole. Can you say 'anti-American'?
I like to put this idea forward to the intellectuals...
If a large group of people are planning to immigrate to the USA and among
there agenda and beliefs are: they will not speak English, they have a
religious principle which forbids monogamy, they believe that all property
should be public property, and they will work the very minimum to get by and
use public assistance to the extent they can. NOW, would you want them to
come here? The liberal would say, No. Then ask them why the hell they are
fostering such behavior in US citizens?
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Author: Robert CohenRobert Cohen Date: Oct 26, 2007 14:14
On Oct 26, 2:14 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
> into "us" and "them."
>
> Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
> and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
> successful-steps to combat them.
>
> Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
> people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
> individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
> Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary
> Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and
> anthropologist Robert Kurzban, of the University of California at Los
> Angeles, wanted to test whether this was innate or whether it was just
> an artifact of how society groups individuals by race.
>
> To do this, Cosmides and her colleagues made a video of two racially ...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Oct 26, 2007 14:43
On Oct 25, 11:14 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
> into "us" and "them."
>
> Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
> and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
> successful-steps to combat them.
>
> Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
> people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
> individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
> Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary
> Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and
> anthropologist Robert Kurzban, of the University of California at Los
> Angeles, wanted to test whether this was innate or whether it was just
> an artifact of how society groups individuals by race.
>
> To do this, Cosmides and her colleagues made a video of two racially ...
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Author: TopazTopaz Date: Oct 26, 2007 15:41
All liberals have is meaningless buzz words. They call people racists.
Whatever. They don't have anything meaningful to say.
by Thomas Jackson
There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater
horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of
offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press
and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and
arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as
part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never
shrugged off. For example, when a White Georgetown Law School student
reported earlier this year that black students are not as qualified as
White students, it set off a booming, national controversy about
"racism." If the student had merely murdered someone he would have
attracted far less attention and criticism.
Racism is, indeed, the national obsession. Universities are on full
alert for it, newspapers and politicians denounce it, churches preach
against it, America is said to be racked with it, but just what is
racism?
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Author: toolytooly Date: Oct 26, 2007 17:25
"Topaz" hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:98r4i3douhoedqcvnq5ptuf5ka9asatmbo@4ax.com...> All liberals have is meaningless buzz words. They call people racists.
> Whatever. They don't have anything meaningful to say.
>
> by Thomas Jackson
> There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater
> horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of
> offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press
> and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and
> arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as
> part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never
> shrugged off. For example, when a White Georgetown Law School student
> reported earlier this year that black students are not as...
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Author: turtoniturtoni Date: Oct 26, 2007 22:48
On Oct 26, 5:14 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:> On Oct 26, 2:14 am, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
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>>> "If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to
>> xenophobia and racism? It's pretty clear that we are susceptible to
>> prejudice and that there is an unconscious desire to divide the world
>> into "us" and "them."
>
>> Fortunately, however, research also shows that prejudices are fluid
>> and that when we become conscious of our biases we can take active-and
>> successful-steps to combat them.
>
>> Researchers have long known that when observing racially mixed groups,
>> people are more likely to confuse the identity of two black
>> individuals or two white ones, rather than a white with a black. But
>> Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, of the Center for Evolutionary ...
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