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Parent Map Magazine - Are we born racist? |
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 Parent Map
Are we born racist?
Instead of ignoring racial differences, parents should call them out
explicitly and discuss them — just like they do with other differences,
says Po Bronson, co-author with Ashley Merryman of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children.
“When you’re reading a picture book to a 1-year-old, you say, ‘Look at
the yellow jacket! Look at the red truck!’ But the pictures of the kid
who has pinkish skin and the kid who has brownish skin? We never mention
it. I’m thinking, ‘What are we passing on to our kids?” Bronson writes
in NurtureShock, “We tell kids that ‘pink’ means for girls and
‘blue’ is for boys. ‘White’ and ‘black’ are mysteries we leave them to
figure out on their own.”
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