White people empathize less with darker skinner people

Dustin · November 30, 2014, 12:07:33 AM

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King pesto · November 30, 2014, 12:48:17 AM

Jay? Is that you?

Dustin · November 30, 2014, 12:51:19 AM

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King pesto · November 30, 2014, 12:52:37 AM

Quote from: Dustin a Nut on November 30, 2014, 12:51:19 AM

Quote from: Sargon of Akkad on November 30, 2014, 12:48:17 AM
Jay? Is that you?
I found this gem in /pol/ actually

>/pol/

This explains a lot

More Than Mortal · November 30, 2014, 11:40:48 AM

No, this isn't true for me.

PSU · November 30, 2014, 11:55:01 AM

Yeah it is true. Just being 100.

Raptor the Kid (24) · November 30, 2014, 12:40:45 PM

I have no idea what the first one means :/

The second one, a large amount can be put down to propaganda.

Thirdly, well yeah, the people are far away. Your empathy is gonna be severely lacking to people on the other side of the world, especially if its footage you see almost on a daily basis (arab spring)

Fourth is cultural dissonance. Several east Asian cultures are gonna have expressions and music totally alien to american or European counterparts. The same is easily said to every other culture that is physically and culturally far from another.

If all this shit was true, would I view everyone I see as nothing more than an object, because I'm mixed race?

Mr. Psychologist · November 30, 2014, 12:45:33 PM

It's not a surprising finding.

I can't quite recall the study name, but there was one done about recording the number of faces a baby was exposed to.
White baby - How many ethnic faces?
And the result was pretty low, somewhere between 0-1 was the average IIRC.

So you have a different culture and an unfamiliar face structure/colour and it's not too surprising that it's hard for people to empathise with them. I would expect to find similar mirrored results for Asians and Blacks if the study was conducted in countries like Nigeria and Japan.

I'll elaborate if I can dredge the information properly <.<

As for a personal level, I don't have difficulty empathising with people of a different race. I'm just stuck with a silly displaced empathy problem to people in general, it's still there and certainly not lacking but you throw animals into the equation and it gets very screwy >_>

BrenMan 94 · November 30, 2014, 09:43:01 PM

I have trouble empathizing with people in general.

With that said I feel I have some minor racial biases because of my home environment (my mom is very much a racist).

Statefarm · December 01, 2014, 10:03:13 AM

Thanks OP I needed a good laugh