Race+and+association

On my page I want to take a real look at how people view race. So I decided to do a little research besides the internet and do a little exploring. In my experiment I wanted to look and she what each individual race or ethnic group preferred when hanging out with people. I wanted to look at kids, then teens, then adults. Here's what I got when conducting on little elementary school kids. 1. What color person they rather have a play date with? They kids answered…


 * //- Black child//**: They answered they'd rather play with a white person; this is because most whites have nice things. They have the cool clothes, the fun toys, and the houses.


 * // - White child //**: They answered they'd rather play with a white person, there reason was the usually have a lot of the same things, and also I thought it was interesting when she said she felt safer around white people. (Was that the girl’s actual belief, or was that her parents, or was it from something she had seen on TV?)


 * // - Hispanic child //**: They answered that they have only had play dates with their own ethnic group. They hadn't had many inter-racial play dates. This also had something to do with a level of security.

From this I learned that children often take their influences of who to hang out with or associate with by what they see on television or their parents. Also what people had was a factor that played into their answer. This answer was usually played into by a racial stereotype. (When asked who they like to play with)



Secondly I wanted to see the association of teens and how they grouped themselves according to race. I began to look at CA. This wasn't a very effective, because with only 700 hundred students in attendance there wasn't a good percentage of diversity. So I went and observed a typical teen hang out... The Movies

While there I took notes on many things: 1) The teens were there with kids of their own race or skin tone. From observation it seemed as if more than 75 percent of each group that walked by consisted of one race. The occasionally mixed bag of people would walk by, but that was rarely the case. 2) The group also seemed to have one every factor in common they all had no problem associating with the other groups in the vicinity. (I was there with a few friends all of which were African- American, but when I went to talk to a friend, who happened to be Caucasian there was no problem in conversing. 3) Lastly I concluded that race does decide who we associate with, but it doesn’t seem to play into racism as of yet. From what I observed a saw race is just our comfort zone, our security net. Most people even I feel better of comfortable with people from their own “race”.

Coming Next: Racism how does it come up, and how does it develop within a person or group?

Let’s first get a general depiction of racism… - Racism according to **// http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/racism.asp //** is defined as the hatred of one person by another -- or the belief that another person is less than human -- because of skin color, language, customs, and place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. - Racism has started wars, lead to slavery, and led to the formation of nations, as well as groups. § Does this play into association

Racism does play into association in some cases, like the Ku Klux Klan. The formations of this white power group not any led to the association or friendship of some Caucasians, but also lead to African American association. The effects of the KKK and slavery led to the formations of radical groups. For Example
 * The Black Panthers Party - was an African-American organization created to promote Black Power , and to promote self-defense  for blacks  . It was around in the United States  from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through their passionate involvement in the Black Power movement and in US politics  of the 1960s and 70s. ( Black Association)

- The KKK – A hate group organizations in the United States whose purpose was to protect the rights of and further the interests of white Americans  by violence and intimidation (Mainly towards blacks). The first such organizations originated in the Southern states and eventually grew to national scope. They developed iconic white costumes consisting of robes, masks, and conical hats. ( white association) The associations of these groups such as the KKK and The Black Panthers are based off of traits. They first all share the same general purpose. For the KKK it's a hatred for the African- American community, and other minority groups. They are brought together, know for the reason why they are grouped the way they are.

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