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Quixote1818

(28,946 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 12:52 PM Feb 2016

Doll Test

Watching this always puts tears in my eyes.

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Doll Test (Original Post) Quixote1818 Feb 2016 OP

heartbreaking. Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #1

It gets sadder everytime. liberalnarb Feb 2016 #2

Holy shit! redgreenandblue Feb 2016 #3

Poll: Hopes are high for race relations oberliner Feb 2016 #4

That's some NorthCarolina Feb 2016 #5

Over the years, things don't change much unless you can mingle with kids of another race. Stellar Feb 2016 #6

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)

1. heartbreaking.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:07 PM

Feb 2016

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)

2. It gets sadder everytime.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:15 PM

Feb 2016

This was my first OP on DU

redgreenandblue

(2,088 posts)

3. Holy shit!

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:29 PM

Feb 2016

This blows my mind. I would have assumed that children are most likely to prefer the doll most similar to themselves in all cases.

Is there a way to get more detailed information of the test parameters? What I'd really like to know is how much the result depends on region.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

4. Poll: Hopes are high for race relations

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:31 PM

Feb 2016

Barack Obama's election has inspired a wave of optimism about the future of race relations in the United States, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken the day after the first African American won the White House.

Confidence that the nation will resolve its racial problems rose to a historic level. Two-thirds of Americans predict that relations between blacks and whites "will eventually be worked out" in the United States, by far the highest number since Gallup first asked the question in the midst of the civil rights struggle in 1963.

Optimism jumped most among blacks. Five months ago, half of African Americans predicted the nation eventually would solve its racial problems. Now, two-thirds do.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7213714&page=1

That is from 2009 - the article is from the same date as when ABC did their version of this doll experiment (partially shown in these clips).

Interesting to see how much hopefulness there was about the future of race relations upon Obama's election and where things stand today.

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)

5. That's some

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:34 PM

Feb 2016

fucked-up shit right there.

America should be proud...NOT.

These kids are REALLY young and yet already have a warped sense of race. Who bears responsibility for this sad state of affairs? Is it TV? Is it the schools? Is it our politics? Where does this mindset stem from? We need answers, and from I see in the video we need them fast.

Gawd, this video will be haunting me forever.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)

6. Over the years, things don't change much unless you can mingle with kids of another race.