From: Mneillft-AT-aol.com Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:16:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: AUT: what kids are thinking in Italy ... In response to Laura's comments on the findings of racism. Yes, a rapid change of color in one's parents would no doubt be scary, but the list of things kids said in response to "black" rather thoroughly replicated the ideology of actual racism in the US (e.g., the notion of black as dirty and Africans as stupid). That is, unfortunately, the kids appear to have adopted the ideology of "racial" inferiority of blacks. I suspect if the kids were asked what they would do if their parents turned green, they'd talk about consulting doctors, not about the things they did raise. Believing too much in polls is dangerous; but this seems unfortunately congruent with a wide variety of evidence about racism in Italy. Monty Neill --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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