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Stop Racial Bias From Forming Before it Starts
March 22, 2022
Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), writer, poet and visual artist

"There is research showing that young children – three-year-olds - use race to determine who they want as a playmate," says Karen Babbs Hollett, a researcher at the Pennsylvania State University Center for Education and Civil Rights, in a new video clip, "What Research Tells Us About Children and Social Justice." The clip is part of a new series of videos on promoting social justice in early childhood, recently posted on the Exchange Ed.Flicks online video platform.    

"But there is also great research showing something called inter-group contact, showing that when children have opportunities to play with and interact with and talk to children and people of other races, that reduces their long-term racial bias. It increases the probability that they’ll develop friendships with children of other races as they get older.

So you have this amazing opportunity in early childhood to stop racial bias from forming before it even starts …It is such an important learning developmentally for children when we think about what can we do as a society to disrupt the formation of racial bias. Investing in racially and socio-economically integrated preschool programs where children of all races are given equal status…that’s one of the best things we can do."





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Linda Younger/Sunshine Corners · March 22, 2022
Sunshine Corners
Strasburg, PA, United States


Thank you for sharing this solid guidance coming straight from the heart!
More people need to understand this need and follow this path for our children's sake.

Sarker Javed Iqbal · March 22, 2022
Dhaka, Bangladesh


We cannot blame children for being racial biased. They learn from their parents. We need to teach parents first.



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