Raised into Racism
As a young child you are impressionable from your early developmental years to your adulthood, everything you see, hear even think can be formed into your own beliefs. Once you have enough repetition you believe that what you feel is all right. Children are easily influenced by their peers to believe, think and act like they do. Children can understand what emotions are commonly acceptable and act upon them when they see their peers do so; just like the ‘monkey see, monkey do’ theory. Children no matter how old will mimic and form beliefs on what they see and experience. Racism is just one of those things.
What is racism? Racism by definition is the discrimination on a race that is seen inferior to another. Racism is …show more content…
Because children are so impressionable, they synthesize what behaviors are acceptable among their peers. For example, the child's parents might talk negatively about a person of color or categorize bad events to only one race, the child will inhabit and reenact these to gain acceptance from them. Like so, child become cognitively aware of differences; “when children's sense of individual identity evolves into group identity both cognitively and emotionally (Piaget describes this stage of development as "socio-centric"). Children become conscious of being part of a group different from other groups.” (Derman-sparks, Higa, Sparks) says the authors of ‘Children, Race and Racism: How Race Awareness Develops’, they all emphasis that children are more aware than what their peers think. These children are able to break down complex ideas and store theses bits of information into cognitive inferences of what is desirable and less desirable about race or even stereotypes about a …show more content…
Children do not understand why their peers make negative comments to people of a certain race or even categorize them based on a stereotype. They simply do not understand if their peers are expressing racism or prejudice against others. thus , they do not understand the difference between the two, in contrast. Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D explains that understand the two makes a difference from how someone's behaviors or feelings are categorized based on what they believe. Children will have prejudices against people of color, primarily because there is no actual reason for them to dislike or stereotype those of color, other than that is what their peers believe. But these soon manifest into characteristics of implementing racism if gone
As a young child you are impressionable from your early developmental years to your adulthood, everything you see, hear even think can be formed into your own beliefs. Once you have enough repetition you believe that what you feel is all right. Children are easily influenced by their peers to believe, think and act like they do. Children can understand what emotions are commonly acceptable and act upon them when they see their peers do so; just like the ‘monkey see, monkey do’ theory. Children no matter how old will mimic and form beliefs on what they see and experience. Racism is just one of those things.
What is racism? Racism by definition is the discrimination on a race that is seen inferior to another. Racism is …show more content…
Because children are so impressionable, they synthesize what behaviors are acceptable among their peers. For example, the child's parents might talk negatively about a person of color or categorize bad events to only one race, the child will inhabit and reenact these to gain acceptance from them. Like so, child become cognitively aware of differences; “when children's sense of individual identity evolves into group identity both cognitively and emotionally (Piaget describes this stage of development as "socio-centric"). Children become conscious of being part of a group different from other groups.” (Derman-sparks, Higa, Sparks) says the authors of ‘Children, Race and Racism: How Race Awareness Develops’, they all emphasis that children are more aware than what their peers think. These children are able to break down complex ideas and store theses bits of information into cognitive inferences of what is desirable and less desirable about race or even stereotypes about a …show more content…
Children do not understand why their peers make negative comments to people of a certain race or even categorize them based on a stereotype. They simply do not understand if their peers are expressing racism or prejudice against others. thus , they do not understand the difference between the two, in contrast. Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D explains that understand the two makes a difference from how someone's behaviors or feelings are categorized based on what they believe. Children will have prejudices against people of color, primarily because there is no actual reason for them to dislike or stereotype those of color, other than that is what their peers believe. But these soon manifest into characteristics of implementing racism if gone