Do you believe racism is a learnt behaviour?

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MCheetah · Accepted Answer

Considering children aren't racist (most of the time), yes, it 100% is learned. In fact, any malice is a learned behavior. I teach kids. Korean kids. Most kids have no prejudices. They just want family, love, and fun. They don't have prejudices unless their parents instill it in them, which PLENTY of sh*tty parents do, in Far East Asia and the West. Like hating Japan because of past war conflicts. It'd be like an American hating the British cause we used to be their colony.

I mean, I say that, but THEN... You get the "AmeriKKKa" idiots who live as upper middle class black teens and young adults who don't have to work for a living and can spend on Twitter. People whining about "400 years of slavery" when even their great grandparents weren't slaves, are even worse than Koreans still hating the Japanese. It's FAR dumber, in fact, because some Koreans could justify their hatred as Japan did invade and take over Korea for like 30 years when these woke kids on Twitter have literally never had a day of adversity in their lives.

The TL;DR is, hate is taught; either through negative experiences or through brainwashers.

Dargil · Accepted Answer

Excellent question +1.
Yes, I do. I was taught it in my household. In my single numbers (1-9), I didn't even notice race. Then, at the same time puberty hit at 12, my parents began talking about "boogs", "coons" and "nigs". But my rebellious nature did not permit me to believe them for long and I ended up in my teens with a black girl friend that horrified my parents. I didn't give a fukk. I was in LOVE!

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Yes, people aren't born racist, but I don't necessarily think it has to be instilled in you through brainwashing. You can become racist over time through constant bad experiences.

This English girl said it best, "We wouldn't be Islamophobic, if you didn't constantly blow us up and rape us."

At some point people need to stop playing the victim and agknowledge that they have no one to blame but themselves for the way they are treated, and start trying to change THEMSELVES, instead of demanding that others change for them.

HighValue · Answer

Yes. It can be learned from their family, from teachers encouraging it (I've personally witnessed this from teachers and from administrators), the media teaches it to young and uninformed people, and some people can become racist by having multiple repeated bad experiences in life from a particular group along with a lack of and good experiences with that group.

bamesjond0069 · Answer

Yes but the issue is its learned by experience. Not like some white power school but by things like: blacks are smaller portion of population but a large portion of crime. What is one to casually conclude about such a thing? Same thing with the ghetto dress attitude speech. You talk to a bunch of people and some speak properly and some speak in a certain slang and what is one to conclude? You can't stop people from making these obvious associations.

BLP11520 · Answer

Yes it is, my boys played with all colors. Somewhere in school ( what years I don't know ) their attitudes changed. They disliked the potheads and stayed away from certain ethnicities. I am not a racist, some whites have a bit of racist attitudes and do not even recognize it.

Hanrej · Answer

Absolutely. Doesn't mean somone taught you or imprinted their view on you. You can just as well learn to be racist from bad experiances, just like most who are sexist or hateful for any reason have their own reasons for being so.

jshm2 · Answer

Partially.  Some people just don't know any better than what they are told on the playground by others.

notwoke · Answer

yes, you learn is just like you learn not to touch fire or swim with sharks based on the prevailing behavior of each race. there's a reason no one makes fun of Asians for being "so athletic"

FunkyMonkee · Answer

OF COURSE it is! How could you POSSIBLY think you're born with it?

exitseven · Answer

Yes. a lot of people learn it from their parents or friends.

ManHater · Answer

It's a natural Human behaviour. People think Racism is something we can hammer out. False it's part of the human subconscious.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

No. As humans grow up those inclined to hatred and bitterness and cockiness tend to become racist.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, you have to be taught to hate someone for the color of their skin. Kids don't care about such things naturally.

noohair · Answer

It is a curse passed from parent to child.

Cherry234 · Answer

I think so.

Agape93 · Answer

Absolutely

Still-alive · Answer

Very much so

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes maybe

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

Yes.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Absolutely it is

clemdenim · Answer

Yes it is

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