Racism: A Comparative Analysis

Racism has been scientifically divided into two common themes psychological pathology and intellectual inferiority. The brains cognitive response ties into both themes and determines how the individual would perceive racism. Experiments and extensive research has been provided to support the evidence that the brains cognitive response has influence over the judgment of an individual’s thoughts. Shaunacy Ferro published a few articles with Popular Science that helps break down the process of understanding what racism is perceived as. In one article Shaunacy Ferro discussed evidence of babies displaying schadenfreude (pleasure derived by someone from another person 's misfortune) toward people who differ in appearance. The article itself explains the results behind the disclaimer of racism being a mental illness. Humans have a strong tendency to lean towards people who are similar to them and share something, either it is a common nationality, food, or even brand1. Babies on the other …show more content…
Collaborations from Royal Holloway University of London, the Central European University in Budapest and Radbound University Nijmegen in the Netherlands to analyze the implicit racial biases of 34 Caucasian participants and subject them to the “Rubber Hand” illusion2. The test consisted of the subjects watching a rubber hand being touched by a paintbrush as they felt their own hand being stimulated out of sight2. This illusion creates the sense that the fake hand is part of the subject 's body, even when it 's of a completely different skin color2. The theory behind this test is to stimulate the brain 's cognitive response and give an illusion showing their skin tone being darker, which would provide a similar/dissimilar interest as discussed in the previous