For those that don't understand, let me explain:
People generalize by using the confirmation bias. This means that people make an assertion based on only the things that confirm their predetermined beliefs.
Many racists, for example, will go psychobabble on about how blacks are unintelligent, while ignoring such brilliant minds as Barack Obama, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick Douglas, Tyra Banks (she went to Yale), etc.
When doing structuralism, they will retell the events and make the black person sound less intelligent than they actually are. Once they build it up in their minds, it becomes an implanted memory and will be remembered as the truth. This means that first they lie and then they believe the lie, and the cycle continues. Because of the predisposition that black people are inferior, people will regurgitate this process.
When others see this method of analyzing races, they will adopt such forms. This conditioning will make it so the analysis seems fair because everyone else it will have become an established principle, when empirical testing is to the contrary (race is only skin-deep, according to scientists, meaning mental capabilities are all the same). But these stereotypes can manifest into stereotype threat, which causes the person to mentally believe these generalizations are a true, and thus, succumb to them.
Now, the moderators are inconsistent and sometimes lock things depending on their mood. I think, from a biological and sociocultural perspective, it is imperative that we discuss racial stereotypes and their origin. Hopefully we can change some minds in the process, because it is an impeding view that this century needs to rid itself of. These are some of the most important discussions you will have, if we choose to learn from each other. It is the foundation that may shape your race relations for the rest of your life.
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