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I don’t think the issue is with “good-ol’-boyism” The root issue is that human beings are racist or otherwise prejudiced and that’s causing way more problems i

I don’t think the issue is with “good-ol’-boyism” The root issue is that human beings are racist or otherwise prejudiced and that’s causing way more problems in many more areas And prejudice is natural human behavior. Anyone can become prejudiced if they grow up in the right environment But if all your friends are from all walks of life, you will naturally not be prejudiced. So all we need to do is make sure that we have even the right outreach programs so forces are diverse. When people in places of power are going to cookouts and all theirs buddies are all sorts of different people, all these stupid problems will literally disappear in a generation

Kranar 4y ago
>But if all your friends are from all walks of life, you will naturally not be prejudiced. I'd be careful jumping to the conclusion you did based on this premise because there are a lot of subtleties here. More generally this is known as the contact hypothesis (and related to the diversity exposure hypothesis) and there isn't that much evidence to justify the idea that exposure to multiple walks of life reduces prejudice and on the contrary there is evidence that the opposite is true. While there is substantial evidence that people who do have friends from all walks of life are less prejudiced as you point out, that's mostly due to self-selection. People less prejudiced have less issue with befriending people from all walks of life, so we should not be surprised that they do so. However, concluding that all people need is to be exposed to diverse groups of people will reduce prejudice is unsupported by research and in fact to the extent that research exists on this, it actually points to the opposite conclusion. For example in situations where people are required to work or interact among different cultures, studies show unfortunately that those people have more negative attitudes towards that community than the general population. This phenomenon is known as negative intergroup contact: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1368430218761568 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136843021876156... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457726/
- thrashh 4y ago
  Those studies are regarding people experiencing that effect later in life, no? I’m not really expecting to fix older people. I’m an old dog now relatively and I don’t learn new tricks as well I’m talking about people growing up together
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Kranar 4y ago

>But if all your friends are from all walks of life, you will naturally not be prejudiced. I'd be careful jumping to the conclusion you did based on this premise because there are a lot of subtleties here. More generally this is known as the contact hypothesis (and related to the diversity exposure hypothesis) and there isn't that much evidence to justify the idea that exposure to multiple walks of life reduces prejudice and on the contrary there is evidence that the opposite is true. While there is substantial evidence that people who do have friends from all walks of life are less prejudiced as you point out, that's mostly due to self-selection. People less prejudiced have less issue with befriending people from all walks of life, so we should not be surprised that they do so. However, concluding that all people need is to be exposed to diverse groups of people will reduce prejudice is unsupported by research and in fact to the extent that research exists on this, it actually points to the opposite conclusion. For example in situations where people are required to work or interact among different cultures, studies show unfortunately that those people have more negative attitudes towards that community than the general population. This phenomenon is known as negative intergroup contact: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1368430218761568 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136843021876156... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457726/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457726/

thrashh 4y ago
Those studies are regarding people experiencing that effect later in life, no? I’m not really expecting to fix older people. I’m an old dog now relatively and I don’t learn new tricks as well I’m talking about people growing up together
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