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A 7 page paper. The common belief is that children learn to be prejudiced against those who are different than themselves through socialization. In other words, they learn these negative racial and ethnic attitudes from their parents and other important persons in their lives as they are developing. The research says differently. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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lists 7 sources. PGkiddsc.rtf DO CHILDREN LEARN DISCRIMINATION , November, 2001 properly! In every
multicultural society, there is always the potential for racial conflict. The conflict may erupt in reaction to some incident or the tensions may simply build up until there is an
open and aggressive conflict between members of different racial and/or ethnic groups. The underlying factor is prejudice, prejudice against those who are members of a different race or ethnicity, or
different anything else (Vernay, 1990). Even with years of diversity training in corporate America and even more years of multicultural education in the public schools, the degree of prejudice that
still exists in America is nothing short of abhorrent. The paradox is that the affirmative action programs instituted by the federal government as well as other programs initiated by
the federal government have often served to exacerbate the tension that exists between races and ethnicities. These programs had the intention of adjusting the differences in social power between and
among races but in the long run, they succeeded in creating significant problems. The programs did succeed in improving the economic and educational opportunities for persons of minority races but
they did nothing to change the social power structure (Vernay, 1990). Given the efforts over the past more than thirty years, one must wonder why it is that children, often
at very young ages, demonstrate prejudice against children and adults of other races and ethnicities. Racial prejudice is defined as "a predisposition to respond in an unfavourable manner to members
of a racial group" (Aboud and Doyle, 1996). Tragically, racial and ethnic discrimination attitudes seem to be as prevalent in children as they are in adults. In fact, numerous researchers
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