After taking the Implicit Association Test, I confirmed that I had no automatic preference between African Americans and European Americans. After learning about attitudes, I thought my conclusions would bring to light some of the explicit attitudes I am consciously aware of; but thankfully the test concluded no huge difference between the two ethnic backgrounds being compared. I honestly grew up in a socially diverse and acceptable environment. I was brought up to learn to love and understand people outside of my ethnic group and appreciate them for the good and bad. In doing this I formed many friendships with different ethnic groups, however, I also learned a lot of stereotypes about ethnic groups that I didn’t notice until my adulthood.
