One thing young people possess that helps them tolerate each other better and avoid the stigma of racism, is a genuine " Like" for each other; many of us racist adults just don't " Like" each other; we don't enjoy each other ;like they do. They enjoy each others company and listen to each others point of views.
The simple bridges that many adults have simply dismantled ; the bridges that help connect with others, we simply have torn them down bit by bit and selfishly connect with only those who we deem worthy.
Again, we need to see how this turns out when they are separated.
Millennials are just as racist as their parents
The white supremacist ideology authorities say motivated Charleston shooter Dylann Roof is obviously extreme for anyone, and may seem particularly out of place for a 21 year-old at the young end of the racially diverse millennial generation. Yet research has found racially prejudiced attitudes to be surprisingly persistent among the youngest generation of white Americans. In April, we looked at the data on anti-black prejudice by generation, and found millennials are not much more tolerant than their parents.
Racial slurs that have cropped up
chants,
e-mails and
white boards on America's college campuses have some people worried about whether the nation's diverse and fawned-over millennial generation is not as racially tolerant as might be expected. The Christian Science Monitor went so far as to ask, "A
re millennials racist?"
Surely not all millennials are racist, but data can address a key related question: Are white millennials less racially prejudiced than past generations?
We took a look at five measures of racial prejudice from the
General Social Survey conducted by NORC's 2010, 2012 and 2014 waves. Among many other questions, the survey asked respondents to rate whites and blacks on a scale from being "hardworking" to "lazy." Using this data, we can categorize respondents into whether they rated whites or blacks as being lazier, more hardworking or the same.
When it comes to explicit prejudice against blacks, non-Hispanic white millennials are not much different than whites belonging to Generation X (born 1965-1980) or Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964). White millennials (
using a definition of being born after 1980) express the least prejudice on 4 out of 5 measures in the survey, but only by a matter of 1 to 3 percentage points, not a meaningful difference. On work ethic, 31 percent of millennials rate blacks as lazier than whites, compared to 32 percent of Generation X whites and 35 percent of Baby Boomers. (Question wording and methodology at the end).
Millennials are just as racist as their parents