Survey on racism, beta version
Final edited poll
ETA 6:02 p.m. I forgot to include "An observation/commentary on the racism they perceived in your joke" option for Q #5a, but I'm not c & p'ing the entire poll for a second time OTZ.
ETA 08/04/11: And of course, one day later, I realized that the racist question could be taken both ways: racist toward the hypothetical "you," and racist toward the hypothetical "them." ("mostly Caucasian women" in #1, "unknown Caucasian male" in #2, "Caucasian female" in #3 and "subordinates" in #6).
What I meant is racist toward the hypothethical "you." Apologies for the unclear option.
Daughter of ETA: Imma redo the poll in a different host, hopefully with easier editing capabilities than LJ. *cries*
Questions #1 - #5 and Bonus Question #6
Please fill them out (whichever questions you feel like filling) and link to the polls (or this post, if that's easier); I'm genuinely curious what people's answers are.
Non-Americans: feel free to answer the poll(s) too, even though it's probably not as relevant elsewhere. It probably comes across as the unending American struggle to be as politically correct as possible.
And just to have it out there: I've never, in my entire life, claimed that I'm not racist. I'm of the opinion that every single adult* is at least the teeniest bit racist. Whether or not you act on that racism is a different matter (i.e. discrimination).
IMO it's better to be conscious that you might just be, for example, the teeniest bit prejudiced against people wearing green shirt. That way, ideally you can watch out what you say/how you act/behave around/toward green shirt-wearing people. Repeatedly claiming that you treat all shirt-wearing people the same, no matter green, purple, orange, polka dot or paisley is unproductive and just makes you sound defensive =P
* Children don't start out with prejudices. Even then, they do absorb their parents' racism/prejudices at an alarming rate, esp. if their parents are outspoken about it.
My parents were quietly racist, so I didn't really have an inkling of racism until age seven or so, IIRC. Ditto religious discrimination; that was around age eight when a girl commented scathingly on my cross-shaped earrings ("Catholics are okay but I hate Protestants.") In both cases, the other child who "enlightened" me was probably parroting their parents' racism/prejudices/beliefs.
[ LJ | IJ | DW ]
ETA 6:02 p.m. I forgot to include "An observation/commentary on the racism they perceived in your joke" option for Q #5a, but I'm not c & p'ing the entire poll for a second time OTZ.
ETA 08/04/11: And of course, one day later, I realized that the racist question could be taken both ways: racist toward the hypothetical "you," and racist toward the hypothetical "them." ("mostly Caucasian women" in #1, "unknown Caucasian male" in #2, "Caucasian female" in #3 and "subordinates" in #6).
What I meant is racist toward the hypothethical "you." Apologies for the unclear option.
Daughter of ETA: Imma redo the poll in a different host, hopefully with easier editing capabilities than LJ. *cries*
Questions #1 - #5 and Bonus Question #6
Please fill them out (whichever questions you feel like filling) and link to the polls (or this post, if that's easier); I'm genuinely curious what people's answers are.
Non-Americans: feel free to answer the poll(s) too, even though it's probably not as relevant elsewhere. It probably comes across as the unending American struggle to be as politically correct as possible.
And just to have it out there: I've never, in my entire life, claimed that I'm not racist. I'm of the opinion that every single adult* is at least the teeniest bit racist. Whether or not you act on that racism is a different matter (i.e. discrimination).
IMO it's better to be conscious that you might just be, for example, the teeniest bit prejudiced against people wearing green shirt. That way, ideally you can watch out what you say/how you act/behave around/toward green shirt-wearing people. Repeatedly claiming that you treat all shirt-wearing people the same, no matter green, purple, orange, polka dot or paisley is unproductive and just makes you sound defensive =P
* Children don't start out with prejudices. Even then, they do absorb their parents' racism/prejudices at an alarming rate, esp. if their parents are outspoken about it.
My parents were quietly racist, so I didn't really have an inkling of racism until age seven or so, IIRC. Ditto religious discrimination; that was around age eight when a girl commented scathingly on my cross-shaped earrings ("Catholics are okay but I hate Protestants.") In both cases, the other child who "enlightened" me was probably parroting their parents' racism/prejudices/beliefs.
[ LJ | IJ | DW ]