How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt
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Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society -- from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice -- and discusses how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address this troubling problem.
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I love that this wonderful woman is giving facts and data regarding biases while people are writing completely biased point of views in the comments.
@muhahaha Bias are the way of life, agreed but that doesnt mean you cant better yourself as a person. That's like someone stating "I get angry sometimes at small things". Your reply is pretty much "Anger is the way of life, deal with it". A person has the right to better oneself unless a person does not want to grow mentally.
How ironic people can be. (Deep sigh)
@@jackjones4135 can't tell whether that was directed to me. If so. Please clarify my irony.
@@sharinganMRDBZ "giving facts and data"
@@sharinganMRDBZ not really directed to you but to those people you are talking about in your comment.
Very good presentation! I feel like it addressed some taboo subjects while still being respectful and factual.
This Ted Talk offers a good synopsis of Dr. Eberhardt's book Biased, but I still highly recommend reading the book, where she more fully lays out the research and data to support her key points. It's written in a very accessible way for the average reader.
Fantastic talk. Great mix of personal stories and corporate/real world examples. Thankyou.
Thank you, Jennifer!
Excellent. Thank you.
Very informative! Thank you!
We all have racial biases..how you react on them is what matters!!
@muhahaha yes..well said
muhahaha> Racial bias is a natural heuristic that saves scares cognitive resources. It will never go away regardless of what we do, but in situations where time allows reflection we should strive to minimize it.
It's not just racial bias, but _all_ kinds of snap, superficial decisions. The problem is that with 8 billion people in the world, there _isn't_ time to get to know people, not even for judges. Overpopulation is the root of most problems.
muhahaha Name says it all
Black cultures have the highest in-group biases of any culture/race. It explains a lot
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z There wouldn't be enough time to get to know people if there were just 1000 of them lol
Thank you for putting together this video. This is an eyeopener. Each point emphatically cited by Ms. Eberhard is true and makes one ponder. I am now more aware of unconscious biases we all have. I also see around me a plethora of instances of religious biases as well. This needs to change. I am grateful to my employer who suggested this TED talk as a part of Annual Ethics & Complaince traning
Thank you Jennifer!
Thank you so much for such for this educational video🤗 My takeaways are: 1. Is my behaviour towards this person ‘intelligence led”; 2. Ensure my language and demeanour is the same for all people; 3. Take time to pause and reflect on the basis of my unconscious bias. Xx
Most useful 14 minutes I spent today. Thank you.
This is VERY good. Thank you very much. Police departments should be required to provide recordings to credible research institutions. It’s only learning our mistakes that we can self evaluate and improve. Also, I am a Nextdoor user, and I appreciate them having reached out to you for your expertise in racial bias and profiling. I wish all businesses took that initiative.
Powerful!!
Thank you for the enriching lecture, Jennifer.
💖The part about “learning to accommodate the prejudiced biases of others to stay safe”…. after being photographed & aggressively “assisted” by 5 store clerks. I found myself putting them all at ease, assuring them I don’t hold grudges after calling one out for addressing me with “What’s up” (at Nordstrom’s) & another caught in the act of filming me on his phone. What’s worse… after I left the store I was followed around the mall by the “What’s up” guy & multiple undercover “Loss Prevention” 😒
Sorry you had to go through all of that 😔
An eloquent essay on bias and racial prejudice. Thank you, Ms Eberhardt.
Thanks for sharing this valid information. As a mom of 2 boys of African. Just walking home from school the police stopped him 7 times and said he was suspicious.
teared up at the elevator part. i can't begin to imagine. thanks for sharing this with us.
there's bias in everything though, not just race - bias based on social status, bias based on appearance, bias based on attractiveness, bias based on sexual preferences, bias based on mental health, etc etc
Yes. But how does that affect her point?
yes that's true. And the speaker would agree. But what's your point? Or was that the point you wanted to make?
A great public speaker, even in a video-only format.
Excelente
Just read her book. So glad Ted is having her speak to this topic.
@@sumukh9007 black lives matters? :))
Whatever you do, DON’T lean into any feelings of discomfort or dare to look inward for understanding of why you can’t stand hearing certain perspectives.
@muhahaha this looks like irony, but I'm not sure since racist people might actually be able to say such things in all seriousness lol.
An extremely insightful video from start to finish. Thank you, Prof. Eberhardt.
As a white Paramedic who worked for many years in the city, (still full time but not in urban areas now) I read a very long study, from Cambridge I think, about bias as it relates to medical treatment of black patients. Very similar methods described in this lecture. The white care providers, all known as decent, caring professionals, were totally susceptible to bias and withholding or delaying treatment. It was a good study. Against my imbedded self awareness and judgement, I had to say, they are talking about me.
An example is, a made up description of patients, mostly black, that we say have "incarceritis' when we pick patients up from jails and holding cells. The premise being, they are faking so the can get out of jail for awhile.
So I did a little test on myself. In my mind I removed the jail and focused only on the Patients words. I literally pretended they were white.
And guess what happened?
I did a lot more 12 leads and I started a lot more IV's.
Act on what the patient is saying. That's it.
Hi Chris. Do you remember the title of the article you read ? I am interested in it.
@@eduardomunoz3516 , No but if this helps any, it was on line maybe 3 years ago. It had some video attachments. I’m sorry. Not much to go on. Boston based.
Well done: you're a better healer as a result of becoming aware of your biases and taking responsibility for your actions for the good of your patients. One by one, this can be done -- I'm with you, friend.
I agree with you. The world is beautiful because it's colorful. Black is beautiful, white is beautiful, brown is beautiful. In this world, there are good and bad people, and didn't depend on the color of their skin. Lovely watching and listening to you on the top of the mountain of Italy.
I agree 100% w every angle! You are speaking without bias and with logic and experience! Thank you 🙏 u have the solution. Hope people apply this wonderful life lesson! A permanent change in all society!
Good talk, and I hope that this cognitive reappraisal will work its part to curb those tendencies in myself. Yet, I am searching for more in the realm of what can an affected person do?
How do I stop this nasty visceral reaction? I know it is unjustified and unjust, hurting and hurtfull, but this knowledge alone so far has not stopped my reactivity.
This is a very enlightening presentation. So are the knee jerk responses against it. Those should be studied too.
Yes it's always best to LISTEN to BOTH sides then make a RATIONAL decision based on FACTS.
Only thing I drew from that monologue was something we already know, which is: bias is inherent and it takes effort to go around such implicit bias.
I'd like the studies she references to be sourced in the description, tbh, because I get the distinct feeling she is racist herself. But really the best way, I figure, to stop racism is not to be aware of it, but make the color of someone's skin as mundane as the color of someone's hair color.
Well, that might be the goal, depending on who you ask. But as long as racial bias exists in the world, I think it is important not to be "color blind" and, instead, to see the discrimination people face because of their race.
@@EinhornAnspitzer I don't mean the skin hue the same as being color blind, I mean that we simply don't judge on that, and try to make it mundane.
I know there exists implicit bias & racism, which is why I said we should be aware of our biases, which I figure most people already know and are made aware of.
However, I think explicit racism is a lost cause trying to change in people.
"Racism" as in bias is a natural and healthy behavior. This whole narrative is aimed almost exclusively at white people to criminalize us for noticing patterns and caring about our in-group. But they are totally fine with the same behavior for nonwhites.
You cannot fix something that you're not aware of. If anything, we should become more aware of our implicit biases by educating ourselves and others, not by denying them or sweeping them under the rug. You cannot unsee that someone looks different then you, but you can make a conscious decision to treat them as equal.
Even if we were to all magically be affected by magic that wiped away everyone's racial bias .... Racism wouldn't be over. We wouldn't have racial bias but the racial disparities would still exist. So Racial bias is important because they create and justify racial disparities... But first racial disparities must go. That means creating policies to eliminate racial disparities. Once we have disparities gone and the social structures that create them gone, then we will see that it wasn't racial inferiority that caused disparities but rather social barriers. Many of our biases would be gone by realizing we all regardless of race has similar capabilities. Not the same, because we all are different, which is a good thing, but race isn't an influencer of capability and elimination of barriers would show that.
Reminder for presenters to emphasise correlation ≠ causation and not slack on word choice just to be easier to understand
Interesting talk.
from observing my own biases, I think, that is a very good description.
To underscore her point:
How many people, of a different race than hers, acted on their biases, and made a split second decision to not watch this video as soon as they looked at her, or the title?
For instance, if she were a Victoria Secret model (most of which are white, and if not, then possess traditional European features) this video would have a much greater number of views. Even if the title and content is exactly the same. And it's not as if those people would say "oh, a hot person, let's give them a chance". It's subconscious thing.
The environment is also what shapes a child. Of course if children grew up in a place where being black is seen as something to be ashamed of by many people, black and white children will learn from that. Both children, even without learning it from their parents, will see being black is something negative because it is the dictate of the environment they are in.
Watch this video and reflect for yourself. Put aside your bias and think again.
Thank you Jennifer as I just saw more within myself and outward-facing, in our world, than I knew before listening. What a revelation this journey is. My world is a united nation, yet I have never seen it this clearly. I recognize that awareness and the actions we all must take is a journey, but there is hope that the journey together is more in progress today than ever before. Blessings and again, thank you.
Blow Me see hasan minaj’s video on this to educate yourself rooted on how and why blacks and Asians were brought to this country.
Wow,....I'm assuming Rebukeah is from Colorado where magic mushrooms are now legal.
Very emotional appeal but no actual referral to numbers of people doing whatever.
FBI national crime statistics prove the reality of whats going on in this country. And yet those very same FACTS are always conveniently left out of any discussion like this as they would blow away the false narrative of what is powering their agenda.
She literally mentioned studies in the video and you can do a short google search by your own. I even commented with the links. Are you THAT lazy? Also people tend to use the FBI crime statistics without the details about the opinion of FBI professionals and other professionals talking about why it is possible and sadly confirming that this can come from a racial bias deeply embedded in the system. Not even the facts you cite agree with you. There are additional studies done on this too.
while I agree that TED should post the sources in the description, a simple Google search can lead you to an overview of Miss Eberhardts publications web.stanford.edu/~eberhard/publications.html
I don’t follow. She does give numbers measuring impact of changes taken by organizations (eg Nextdoor). Maybe you think an 11minute TED talk should have more numbers, but it just isn’t the case that there are none.
@@publicayers I've seen shorter videos with more facts on them. Facts are important if you want people to think you're being objective.
Efficiency (typical no-brainer) comes at it's cost. Good video!
When I was young I can remember times when I smiled at someone to make sure that I got a good look at them. Smiling also put a person I felt could be unsafe at ease so they were less likely to treat me negatively.
In our culture we have been trained to see people by how we can use them, what they mean to us.
For an extreme example homeless people are often ignored while celebrities are chased.
We walk around thinking our particular perception is real and everyone is seeing the same thing when it's really not reality but just a story we each are living in.
I would love to see a filming of a bunch of different people watching films of officers stops and guessing whether they were talking with white or black people and see the percentage of who gets it right.
I imagine that it is very rare for a person with strong biases to ever look back at themselves and question their own behavior.
If they did they would have to wake up and lose the bias.
That is the double-bind. Someone with a bias would say " I am seeing the truth so I have no reason to question myself." Ha ha.
Then add the privildege of the added benefit of living in and recieving the perks of a double standard and why would anyone ever choose to question themselves?
People who can't see the benefit will continue to fight for their privildeged bias.
For many people only when it no longer serves them and especially when it becomes a detriment to their success will someone be willing to take a real honest look at their own behavior and perspective.
Love your videos 💖💖
Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steel... read them
No.
Read they Books very Good well written with much racial clarity 💯💯💯
Very interesting. I agree that reflection is the solution.
Reflecting is great. More reflections are smarter decisions but we make choices everyday. Politics requires historical reflection and history requires political enactment
Thank you for this important insight!
Thank you this explains a lot of my interaction with people
Her work is totally dependant on police reform with her helping reform implicit biases training for Oakland police. I wonder what she thinks about now and the avenues for defunding the police and/or abolishing it
Stating her work is “solely dependent” on working with one area really minimizes not only the work she does but also her capabilities. Maybe spend some time reading her bio and understanding her field and career path before making the statement.... or just state what you’re looking to state outright.
This lady is brilliant! Her book is fantastic too
I have several issues and questions about her arguments she made. My biggest issue is the lack of clarification on some topics(what are low level crimes?). But is there any consideration to the same arguments from the opposite side? I'm genuinely trying to not see some hypocrisy in her reasoning.
I think a low level crime would be something like small-scale theft. You know, the kind of thing George Floyd was killed for because he was suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill. These people just want people to stop dying and having unjust uses of force used against them for stupid reasons.
@@solarisengineering15 the cops didn't just pick him off the streets to do that. The man escaped from the squad car after he was put into it. I can agree with the murder charge but there are so many motives to treat him like that rather than his skin color. For one he was 6'6, a bouncer, was reported to be extremely high. Meth and fentnal were found in his system, and he escaped from the squad car.
@@cuzz467 You're arguing in favor of the police, proving you already have preconceived notions that you aren't willing to see the other side of. So no, you're not trying to not see hypocrisy, you're trying to prove her wrong by asking what you think are gotcha questions. Download her book to see all the research and time that went into her ideas that were then condensed into a 14min clip. Your real issue is you don't like being made to feel guilty. The funny thing is if you weren't participating in at least some of the bias behaviors she touched on, you wouldn't feel so negatively towards her message.
Malcolm Gladwell also discusses racial bias
Prejudice is a primal response to life experience. Bias is created.
Just reading the comments section illustrates how much extra work is needed, why voices like hers are crucial. The amount of denial and defensiveness is amazing. Folks, is it that hard to take a step back and reflect?
Education is the key! Any doubts? So who controls it? Any more problems to resolve plz contact me....
@muhahaha ir will change as soon as this new generation gets to power... unfortunately changing mentalities takes time. I wish it was a snapshot away....we need to keep pushing it and get the message out in better forms to be ingraved on kids minds....
muhahaha I’ve been catching you’re racist act at every post you make and u never responded to discuss with me I said look at yourself ignorance in the mirror and practice respect but u didn’t respond so I know your intentions of hate checkmate chicken come home to rooost
Great work being done around racial profiling.
Very empresive
Impressive*
Absolutely brilliant...smiles used to protect oneself - I relate.
Really appreciate this talk. Some great points and thought provoking notes. Thank you for sharing!
Just here to say, that there's nothing wrong with this video. In fact it's quite informativ and helpful. Keep doing what you love, and let the haters hate
@Janusha Looking at what's going on in america, american racism has taken over half of america and most of any news worldwide. It's now more important than ever.
It never stops...
@muhahaha one side will utterly destroy the other IF it pop'd off which it wont because even the protesters in america aren't sure of what they're even protesting
Don't cry.
@@NoExitLoveNow
Non-stop crying from people is why I have been unsuccessfully attacked 3 times by brown-supremacist just in the past year or two blaming be for their failings as the call me "you people" and "your kind"
Whether they are going to try kill me or try to do better in their own life, they can simply try harder .
For those who disliked the video, could you please explain why? I'm just curious.
You can make an argument using facts and reason or emotions and opinions. I choose reason and facts. That's where you find the truth.
BTW I Posted a Long Explanatory Paragraph an Hour Ago and See That its BEEN REMOVED. Black Lying Racist cancelled any reasoned opinions to promote her rant!
Ted should add references for the data their speakers cited. Was the data published in a peer-reviewed journal?
Yes, it was. You can read academic citations for all her evidence in her book, Biased.
The moment you all realize that you can’t bend someone’s thoughts and feelings is the moment you realize the only way to be rid of racism is to accept it’s existence and ignore it.
Well said!
Or prove them wrong by not behaving the way a racist would expect you to. They arnt doing very well so far.
Been there, did that and ended up Here. We need a Change. Come on board all are welcome. The change is happening with you or without you, however it's happening.
Useless - < exactly!
why go around spreading false ideas that people can't change their mind?
It's not _bending_ it's a way reasonable people react when they're informed they're wrong
*Some* people are reasoning resistant, but you can't know unless you (we, someone) try.
Silence is enabling, cosigning, aceepting...
it's inherently racist
(unless your life is in danger if you speak up)
Ayush Sharma
If someone wants to be racist why should you have the right to stop them? People are going to be whatever they what regardless of what you what. Ironically, the more you try and stop them from being racist, the more they’ll be racist because you’re giving them fuel for the fire. The fact that you all can’t see the most simple solution to this problem is in of it’s self a problem. You all cry about racism and how bad of a thing it is when you’re letting yourselves get this hurt and you’re all letting racism be such a bad thing. When you really boil down racism all it is is personal preference and bias from their nurture. Racism isn’t in someone’s nature, it’s in their nurture. If you really want racism to disappear so badly, stop clicking on news stories with false titles designed to make you mad and click their video for money, and simply prove the racist person wrong. Had anyone ever thought of that? Just simply proving them wrong? Arguing with someone isn’t a good way to change their point of view or beliefs, you have to show them in order to change something about them. So the next person you meet in real life who is racist, instead of arguing or yelling at them for their conflicting beliefs, show them that their beliefs are wrong by being a better, taller, bigger person than they are at that moment.
Eu amo esse canal
I feel that all the time where im at & envy if you do good.
Ted talks are the best
As one of a few health care professionals who are black this is horrible to see play out not only to black patients ( very sad ) but also black professionals like myself whom they have decided that I am incompetent before I even open my mouth
A very nice study 👏👏👏👏👏🤗
we in central EU are in different level. we have racism because of the language, you know when everyone is white we need to find another way, why to hate each other. 😊
The EU is evil 👿
Or look at it the RIGHT WAY, there's no actual racism in it's historical form... it's just hate. And in places where there are a lot of blacks, it's easier for them to blame it on skin-color. PS: in C-EU and W-EU you have xenophobia, not racism... it's hatred against people of other nationalities.
Emm N. right.
Its not about language or color, its about what you think how the culture of someone else is like.
This is so true, I'm Chinese, and in China most people never see a white or black people but discriminate other Chinese because different accent. People always find ways to hate others
I like how new TED is now
Nice.. Deleting comments.. I wonder*
@muhahaha yet you're still here? I wonder why?
Mine deleted as well. Reason and facts by white men don't count on this channel. Go To Blaze TV videos.
Sorry to ruin your confirmation bias, but TED doesn't delete any comments.
If it is other peoples comments, they may be deleted by other people
If you posted something that was deleted, then it is likely UA-cam's automated system. It shadow-blocks your comments, but ONLY IF you used certain inflammatory keywords too frequently in your comments. This function is completely out of TED's control, and no one but UA-cam can ever disable this function.
Painful truth
Thank you so much for this. Children are taught early "stranger danger", which may contribute to overreactions to strangers minding their own business.
Strict parenting correlated to racist development
Yeah because children shouldn't trust strangers. What is wrong with teaching them that?
This was really interesting.
This is one important dimension of the problem..There is a lot more as evidenced by things like sibling rivalry and warped human values.
Excellent talk. Thank you, ma’am.
And again tell.yoir son he is really strong and I personally admit this and I m 13 plus I loved your speech
We all have instincts to put objects, animals, people in the the world around us based on what our senses tell us about them. It's an instinct older than humanity - a gazelle that doesn't assume all lions are predators won't live long.
How we judge all of the objects in each category will be based on our experiences and observations. If all the black people we had knowledge of were all peaceful geniuses we'd instinctively expect the same from others we later encountered. We also expect certain characteristics from other races based on acquired understanding - that's instinct, Eberhardt does suggest a sound approach to suppressing those natural biases, or you can just remind yourself to always treat people as individuals and not as members of any collective.
You used a lot of words to say you're racist lol
"How bad parenting works -- and how to not address the issue and dodge the blame | Jennifer L. Ederhardt"
FTFY
Brilliant points made here. I must say that I have fought my autonomic biases most of my life and enjoyed a higher awareness of the world as a result. By repressing my instinctive reactions, I can react calmly and rationally to various situations and fare better. As I'm listening to Jennifer I realised I have also become much more distrusting of my fellow white racial group. I find I get on much better with people of other cultural and racial backgrounds.
Just head on down to the hood for 24 hours straight and see if you come back with a new outlook "fuhreal bro"; if you come back at all.
She’s really good
I think that this video would have been much more powerful if the video started at 4:56
I'm amazed TED can get decent audio quality at home where most newscasters still use garbage webcam quality.
Bias has reason. First black community should be more safe and more successful. And bias will stop to exist. Remove positive descrimination of blacks and they will integrate fast like any other colored people ,like Indians Chinese and so on
So true. I’m white and have lived in the more affluent side of town where there is a larger white population. But I have also lived in the other side of town (which is where I now live) on the other side of town that is not as affluent and where there is a much higher black and brown population is. When I lived in the affluent side of town I was a victim of crime many times snd victimized by white perpetrators. On this side of town I have never experienced crime. Snd I’ve lived in this side of town far longer because as a single woman I feel far safer. However, most people I speak to tell me they don’t like this side of town because of the crime rate. Some restaurants won’t deliver here. Lol. There is a greater police presence here. Not that there isn’t crime in this side of town but there is a greater perception that there is more crime. But that is neither what crime statistics or my own experience confirms. I work with the deaf community so I see everyday how people make assumptions that are incorrect snd how many deaf people compensate in order to keep safe and make others feel more comfortable around them so as to avoid trouble. So unconscious bias is real. Thanks for this post.
Love this!
It's more victimhood, white shaming trash I see way too much of lately. " I'm black so I can't compete in school or for jobs!!!" They hold one hand out for a handout and flip you off with the other. If you want what others have - do what they had to do to get it.
I don't like anything thrown in my face that I have to accept. The real issue is to look and change yourself at yourself.
I'm almost 72 yrs old and grew up in a time that was everything racial. My father lectured us incessantly on kindness that people are different, they look different, and act different. I remember an instance when I was in the first grade in the Pacific Northwest. I wanted my best friend Sheila to spend the night with me. I had my parents permission but when I went to school the next day she told me she couldn't. I was young and naive so I asked why, she matter of factly told me she couldn't spend the night at white people's houses. When I told my mother, she left it up to my dad to explain.
I've lived my life with those same virtues my parents taught me.
So now that a racial component interrupts all phases of life - I will be damned if I need to be schooled on changing someone elses interpretation of bias.
To white parents, teach your children the value of differences; to black parents, teach your children the value of differences.
The solution is pretty simple : have a positive bias on peoples outside our own group, culture, country and invite them share a moment on our group. The racism is based on ignorance of other.
Also i want add the video, a "men bias" exist on our society. It's why the little boy think the black guy is dangerous on the plane, because he is a man before because he is black (with a black woman this reaction will not happend).A men alone on street will be also see "weird" by peoples that look at him.
Peoples that are racists, are racist because they aren't open to other groups. Then as a previous comment said, it's more an "outside group bias" that exist rather a racial biais that trully exist. The history show us thiis concept with religious schisms or discrimination, they don't target a color but they suppose one group had belief he is right and other have wrong idea about god, country, life, family principles, economy, etc.
We have to find something more strong for make a group that our skin color or cultures. I think a human flag is not bad at all as idea :)
Social Conditioning begins and ends in the home. Nuff said.
Racism goes both ways. Bias comes from life experience.
yes, but the majority especially in America is toward black folks
@@iamthefirstandonlycheesecake Do you have a source? I'm not sure what you say is a fact.
No, bias goes both ways. Racism is in one direction: from the dominant group to the minority group. Not everyone has a bias from personal experience and that can be proven with how foreign, non English speaking countries, view Americans. Many have not met an American citizen but still hold both positive and negative bias with regards to them. Racist bias in white people often comes from them taking other peoples personal experiences and making it their own, watching the news or skewed statistics. Non of which can be considered life experience since it wasn't personally experienced by the individual.
@@jollyrancherchick Racism is looking at race, and forming a conclusion. It is both directions.
Thank you, Mrs. Eberhardt, for taking an analytical approach and discussing the issues in the context of careful evaluation. We need more discussions like this, especially when we don't agree with the issues. Calm discussions and sound reasonings go a long way to facilitate discussion for both sides.
I can attest to the innocent youth being indoctrinated by what they see on television. When my 26 year old son was 5 years old he asked me why a Caucasian man was riding the subway. I asked him why did he ask that question and he said he thought that the man should be in a car because he was white. That same year he asked my boyfriend at the time what was he doing Puerto Rican and in this house. I had to have a lot of talks with my son for years to undo what I never knew he was learning from outside sources.
@Ribb Randy I must admit it made me feel as if I had taught my son something wrong. It does show that we all learn certain things from different sources of subconscious stimulation and exposure.
She’s spitting barsssss!! 👏🏽👏🏽 loved this talk, it’s so nice that Ted Talks are continuing despite the pandemic 💗
In the first story i am confused about that does the speaker's son is black? If does that means even black person also racial bias other black?
Yes. That is how I understood it. Even her 5 year old son.
Sounds like a fable rather than a true story .
Racial bias does not exist, this woman proved it😂. To stop racism we need to ignore it and stop highlighting the difference.
Also what kind of five year old says that
I agree this woman didn’t prove it, credible researchers around the world have found evidence to support her argument.
Mikayla there may be subconscious bias but in order to stop racism they need to stop highlighting it and making the segregation even bigger.
So you didn’t listen.
Mister K I did
CountJimbo how so? Try and prove me wrong instead of calling it idiotic
I've been watching TED for a while. I liked their videos. That is why I decided to create my own Channel. 👍🙂
Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?
Art imitates life, even though we selfishly like to think it’s the other way around
What does the data actually say?
When I'm alone on an elevator with a man, I'm not worried about his skin color, I'm scared because he is male. There is a difference when you're talking about the experiences of women.
That's not the only thing I took from her TT for sure, but while I agree with most of what she says, I think all encounters between two strangers are going to be examined in multiple categories and the individual decides the priority of each.
Bias is there in the primitive part of our brain and it is hard to rewire because we react to uncertainty from a fight or flight perspective and it is up to our experience to the contrary to talk down that auto response. She is right that it takes training.
She never considered obviously that the child's primary caregiver put that thought in his head.
Son is CANCELLED
A child is also a social creature, he goes to school for fuck's sake..
Yep, that happened. Don't question anything.
Let’s us normalize calling ourselves out!
Normalize changing our minds upon learning new information.
@muhahaha Hm. It seems as though you've missed my point. But that's okay, carry on with your beliefs and I'll do the same.