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People see multiracial people with Asian names as more Asian-looking: study
A Face By Any Other Name: Seeing Racial Bias: ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2008) — If Barack Obama had taken his mother’s surname and kept his childhood nickname, American voters might literally see “Barry...
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White people think that people of colour have more culture.
White liberals* in North America often say things like, “White people have no culture.” For the overwhelming majority of white liberals, to be white is to be boring. Some white people even claim that...
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This is why white males are so confident in themselves.
The cost of racism by resistance at Resist racism: Another way that racism harms white people is by denying them the ability to develop their critical thinking. This is due in part to the constant,...
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You don’t need a white friend to show you’re not racist.
Many white people feel that white people are stereotyped as racists and are victims of racial prejudice. Consequently, many whites assume that non-white people will be racially prejudiced against...
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Considering intent to evaluate morality is an ancient Western tradition.
Contemporary Western intellectuals embrace secularism as ‘modern’, and they often perceive Eastern and African cultures as ‘traditional’ cultures that are steeped in ancient religious practices. Many...
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Men overestimate their intelligence in all 12 countries, research finds
International Men Of Immodesty (Medical News Today): “We found a consistent difference in how intelligent men and women believe themselves to be; with men giving themselves significantly higher levels...
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“Black or white”, “East or West” are not racially or culturally exhaustive.
Black (#000000) and white (#FFFFFF) are opposite colours, because they have opposite RGB values. As these colour names have been used as labels for racial categories, sometimes Americans make the...
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On the Internet, I can pass as white, but at a cost.
Even now, when I am part of the anti-racist blogosphere with supposed anti-racist allies, I avoid mentioning my ethnicity on the Internet, because I don’t want people to use that knowledge to guess...
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Zaibatsu was a hidden black man on Digg.
Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, is best known for being the #4 Digg user of all time (despite being arbitrarily banned from Digg since September 2008). A political progressive, Zaibatsu had the power to...
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“Easterners” are not collectivist automatons who are poor at analytical...
Figure 1. German (blue) versus Chinese (red) opinions, according to a German art exhibit. The piece was created by a German-educated Chinese woman named Yang Liu. Compare this symbolism with the term...
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“Arrogance” is when men lie and women tell the truth.
In A Rant About Women, Clay Shirky’s example of male arrogance is a man who lies about his exceptional abilities, and his example of female arrogance is a woman who tells the truth about her...
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Auto-exoticism is Asians performing Chinese New Year for a non-Asian classroom.
Once a year, dmp and her mom performed Chinese New Year for her 98% non-Asian elementary class. Afterward, she went to her grandparents’ house and celebrated Têt, the real New Year’s. dmp writes: I...
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Canada is multicultural, not anti-racist.
Canada is an officially multicultural country, but multiculturalism does not address racism. The Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Institution shows six stages from being a...
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Dear IT industry: “Meritocracy” does not mean what you think it means.
IT culture is so ignorant about how society works that what would be satire in other contexts is actually how most IT people think. IT people in general are not exactly experts on how people and...
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Masking the gender and race of job applicants increases diversity in hiring.
Eric Ries writes about his experience in achieving diversity in hiring by masking identifying information from the résumés (emphasis mine): Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black...
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People perceive upper-middle class white men to be smarter than they are.
In On Being Good at Seeming Smart, Eric Schwitzgebel writes (bold emphasis mine): [A]fter a colloquium at which the student had asked a question, one faculty member expressed to me how impressive the...
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Diversity in color names is not caused by innate sex differences.
Randall Munroe of xkcd fame conducted a web survey on color perception, and here are the results on (chromosomal) sex differences (although the correct labels should be “Actual color names if you do...
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White people have difficulty recognizing our emotions, but we can recognize...
From the updated post White people are different from people: In fact, group status may moderate cross-cultural emotion recognition accuracy (see Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002a; and Wolfgang &...
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Nice Guys (TM) are not really nice.
Many self-identified “nice guys”, i.e., Nice GuysTM would sympathize with the male character and perceive his behaviour as being “nice”. According to Nice GuysTM, the poor male character is being...
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Privilege and Perspective: White people are different.
Elon James White (abridged; video and transcript via Womanist Musings): So we’re all familiar with the Black comedian doing “Black people do this, white people do that jokes.” I was thinking, because...
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