Why Babies Are Racist
Babies are racist. At least, most babies are. At 3 months of age Caucasian babies can tell the difference between Caucasian or White faces but can't tell the difference between two faces from any other ethnic group. Is this exclusive to white babies? No. All babies are racist. There are famous experiments where if you put 2 White babies, 2 Black babies, 2 Hispanic babies and 2 Asian babies together in a big play area and start them out separated from each other the babies from the same ethnic groups will crawl to each other and sit together, self-segregating, ignoring all of the other babies. Why do babies self segregate? Because they were raised in segregated houses. It turns out that babies learn to discriminate between human faces at a very young age, or learn to tell 2 faces apart by the subtle differences from the standard layout of 2 eyes, 1 nose and a mouth, and if a baby is only ever exposed to their same ethnic group, then they will...