IIRC, I was replying to someone who asked what NOM was... no idea how it showed up here (or why it's dated nearly 2 years ago... it was only a week or so back). O_o
These studies are always so interesting to me particularly because no matter how many times they are replicated the results are always the same. A young woman replicated the Clarks' study with young African American children in 2005 or 2006, and she got the same results. The one difference is that the black American children did identify the black dolls as being the ones that most looked like them, and the looks on their faces as they did were heartbreaking. Like yeah...I know that I'm ugly and bad.
It's curious to see the differences here with the two children, how one of them struggles to find some way to identify with the white doll that they see as better and the other one selects the brown doll, but quickly moves to mitigate that association by pointing out her lighter areas.
All of this. It's extremely sad to see. Reflecting back on my collection of dolls, I think I was the same way when I was younger. My 20+ chest of dolls were all white and blonde except for one-one had red hair (The Little Mermaid). It's really sad to look back on that but I grew out of it, threw them in the recycling bin, and bought myself a Mulan doll.
I got so into reflecting on this, I went on the Barbie collector website to see their "World Culture" collection and, unsurprisingly, found that almost all of the dolls had the same European-looking face. Not to mention, the highly offensively named "Oriental Barbie Doll" at the end of their oh-so "diverse" collection of East Asian dolls and the fact that they put it under "Asia" and conveniently forgot to include Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, among other countries. I looked up Barbie's friends and family on Wikipedia and found that all of the East Asian dolls had the same face-it's called the "Oriental Barbie face sculpt". *not offended at all* /sorry mini-rant-ish thing
Pretty much the same here. Of course, my mother was part of the blame since she thought I needed the pretty white dolls seeing how I ended up with more of my dad's "Russian features" and not Teresa.
Well, people tends to say that "white" (as a color not a skin color) represent purity and goodness while black/brown tends to mean dirty/stained. The light is bright white, while darkness is black... everything in our culture tends to say that white is good clean beautiful and black/brown is bad evil ugly So it's no wonder that those children would apply that logic to people (doll) IF they are not told otherwise.
They need to be taught that this doesn't apply to people.
In East Asian culture, white represents death (so you'd wear white to a funeral instead of black) even though the entertainment industry there are just as shadeist as any other western industry. Sadly, they're heavily influenced by the western entertainment industry.
that's like hoping for a place with no idiocy. who does that. racism is inherently a (lazy) mindset one uses to make themselves feel superior and humans love feeling superiority towards others (it defines their existence as being worth something).
Seeing things like this always makes me so sad. They are all such beautiful children, and yet so many think they're ugly, they think people who look like them are bad...
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You are perfect, luceritos. You are all exactly as you should be.
(For the record, I'm Hispanic too, though not Mexican. This bias definitely exists elsewhere in South America too.)
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It's curious to see the differences here with the two children, how one of them struggles to find some way to identify with the white doll that they see as better and the other one selects the brown doll, but quickly moves to mitigate that association by pointing out her lighter areas.
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I got so into reflecting on this, I went on the Barbie collector website to see their "World Culture" collection and, unsurprisingly, found that almost all of the dolls had the same European-looking face. Not to mention, the highly offensively named "Oriental Barbie Doll" at the end of their oh-so "diverse" collection of East Asian dolls and the fact that they put it under "Asia" and conveniently forgot to include Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, among other countries. I looked up Barbie's friends and family on Wikipedia and found that all of the East Asian dolls had the same face-it's called the "Oriental Barbie face sculpt". *not offended at all* /sorry mini-rant-ish thing
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The light is bright white, while darkness is black... everything in our culture tends to say that white is good clean beautiful and black/brown is bad evil ugly
So it's no wonder that those children would apply that logic to people (doll) IF they are not told otherwise.
They need to be taught that this doesn't apply to people.
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In East Asian culture, white represents death (so you'd wear white to a funeral instead of black) even though the entertainment industry there are just as shadeist as any other western industry. Sadly, they're heavily influenced by the western entertainment industry.
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More seriously, I perfectly know that, and you know that I know.
But look at pandas they're not racist: they're black, white and asian...
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You are perfect, luceritos. You are all exactly as you should be.
(For the record, I'm Hispanic too, though not Mexican. This bias definitely exists elsewhere in South America too.)
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