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This 3 page paper discusses racial discrimination, argues that it is learned and explains how it is learned, and what theory of social psychology best accounts for it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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people of color. This paper argues that racism is learned and explains how it is learned, and what theory of social psychology best accounts for it. Discussion The student will
have to extrapolate from his or her own experience to identify a specific incident in which he became aware of his prejudice. But an article by DAndrea is a good
starting place, because he identifies things that are quite likely to be almost universal experiences. He writes, "... it is unfortunate that many people do not take time to consider
how the racial images and messages they received during childhood and adolescence may have influenced their own attitudes and beliefs about people who are racially different from themselves" (DAndrea, 1999,
p. 38). Clearly, DAndrea sees that our racism is "received knowledge" and that we have learned it from a very early age. DAndrea relates that he loved and admired his
uncle very much, and always looked forward to his visits, especially when he talked about fighting the Japanese in WWII (DAndrea, 1999). He also remembered how his uncles "tone of
voice and disposition would change when he talked about the niggers that lived like animals in the new housing projects that had been built in our city" (DAndrea, 1999, p.
38). Although DAndrea was unaware of it, "describing African Americans in subhuman terms reflected a view that was commonly held and articulated by other working-class individuals with whom I grew
up" (DAndrea, 1999, p. 38). Thus, he learned as a young boy that African-Americans were, as a group, animalistic and inferior; he also learned that as a white male, he
was superior (DAndrea, 1999). He absorbed these lessons without ever thinking about it, as is the case with most people-we simply listen to what our parents, relatives, friends and others
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