Teaching children about race and diversity is an important and necessary life lesson not only because it molds the minds of future generations but because talking about race with children can help them see beyond race and the race of other children just as it can with children of different genders. Children can recognize the differences between themselves and another individual of a different race regardless if the conversation of race is present in their home. Children who are spoken to about race are more likely to see past the superficial differences between themselves and children of other races and seek more meaningful relationships based upon common interest rather than visual similarity. Discussions regarding race are an inevitability
