re: Is "racism" genetic or learned?

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I dont think that is the current definition of racism.

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it is the most accepted one

I doubt we really ever see any tru racism. BUT for this threads sake, racism is not noticed as children, looked down at as high schoolers, and brought about once hitting the work force.

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I doubt we really ever see any tru racism.

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if you're blind, it is hard to see.

Whatever it is, it isn't confined to any one race. Recently, I was assigned to work on a project for a company that offers home delivery of medical products and prescription drugs. The project lasted approximately 4 months.

For whatever reason, or perhaps just by chance, approximately 70% of the employees of this company are black. Well, it wasn't necessarily the worst working environment I've ever experienced, but it was definitely an unpleasant experience. While I was able to form positive relationships and even friendships with some people there, I was predominantly treated as an outsider and made to feel "different" from the group as a whole. I experienced hostility, discrimination, and even what I would characterize as racism.

I had never been in a predominantly black working environment, and I'm just saying, I sure as hell didn't leave that place thinking, "If only white people were this oblivious to race."

Just being honest, and that's why it irritates me when some people want to pretend that prejudice or even racism is somehow a malady with which only one race is afflicted. That simply isn't the case.

maybe it was learned when homo sapiens invaded from Africa and killed the neanderthals off.

I think some people mistakenly equate someone having a preference to be with people of their own race as being racist.

Several years ago I read about an experiment that was conducted using different types of snails.

A bunch of different types of snails were put in a box together and dumped into a closed canyon to see what they would do when released.

When the scientists came back a month later to see what the snails did, the scientists looked for the snails and found out that all of the snails of the same type had segregated themselves into a group away from all of the other types of snails.

Does that mean all snails are racists?

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It probably had more to do with horny male sails following similar female snail trails

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Does that mean those horny male snails are racists because they only want to have or prefer to have sex with female snails that are the same type of snail as they are?

Ingrained by culture, kids don't have a notion of it when they are young. They play together without distinction of skin color in their minds.

This isn't really always the case.
I remember seeing a black girl for the first time in preschool and telling my parents "there is a chocolate girl at daycare". I knew she was different.

That said, there is no doubt I have become more prejudice as time has gone on. Experiences can shape attitudes

I didn't reply to you. Citwitt said kids don't notice color, at least that's how I took it.