Terrible doesn't even begin to explain the implications here, and apparently the results from these studies, which have been going on since the 40s, haven't changed a whole lot.

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Is this an indication that society is perpetuating the racism, or the families passing down their own perceived bigotry, onto their children ?

Or is it a mix of both ?

If its a mix, which one is more predominant, the parents perceived bigotry towards themselves, or societies ?

Tough questions, implications are huge is an understatement. If kids are being indoctrinated like this en` mass by their parents, one would think that the best way to stop racism is to have a huge public push on telling parents to be very careful about passing sterotypes onto their kids.

But then the same could be said of religion.

This study is very very disturbing, however, as it showed both of the babies, it was apparent that, while both being horribly ugly, the black baby doll was just a dark version of the white baby doll with no African-American features. This can be viewed subconsciously as a dirty white baby which would raise a red flag of being "dirty" and therefore "bad". Try this experiment using real babies or realistic dolls. I'd be interested in seeing those results. I've seen some very beautiful black babies as well as white babies. In fact, I've seen a lot more ugly white babies than ugly black babies. Maybe that's my guilty white conscious talking, but hey, it's what I seem to have noticed.

It would be a more thorough test if they had one ugly-on-purpose white baby against a cute black, and then a cute white vs an ugly-on-purpose black baby to see how much of a measure the actual attractiveness of the child plays into the responses.

Ie. take beauty out of the equation.

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i don't comment very much on sift vids, but this is one of the saddest things i've ever seen. thanks for posting it.

I partially blame the dolls they are using.
I don't think there was any consideration taken to find ethnically accurate dolls. Maybe that black doll was ugly. It looked ugly to me, and not because it was black.
I think doll makers and the companies purchasing the dolls need demand new scupts for different ethnicity. Just changing the colour, doesn't make it a black doll..., or an oriental, a native, or any other ethnicity.

There was no right answer. Does anyone honestly expect a child of that age to respond, “Neither is more beautiful than the other. You shouldn’t be asking those questions.” It was a stupid series of questions to begin with. Might as well ask them who they love more, their mother or their father; then extrapolate their answers into having profound far reaching ramifications. The real shame is the extraction of alleged inherent/genetic racism from a nonsensical, asinine experiment.

I wonder which doll white children choose.
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I wonder what the results would be if the person asking the questions were Black, Chinese or Indian. What if it was a female of a different race asking the questions. I think the child's perception of who is asking the questions may be a factor.