Even Babies See Races

A researcher at the University of Texas has conducted a study with controversial results. Birgitte Vittrup began her study in 2006, and began testing Caucasian children to see how they judge people of other races and skin colors. She began her research on 5 to 7 year old children and asked the children how nice people of different colors are. She then broadened her testing to children as young as six months. As impossible as it may seem she gathered viable information from testing the babies. She showed the babies pictures of people's faces of different races, then monitored how long the babies stared at picture. To her surprise the babies would stare longer at the faces of people who were of a different race than the baby. Vittrup continued her study with older children by handing them a deck of cards with people's faces drawn on them, and told the children to organize them in any way they would like. Only 16% of them organized the faces by gender. But 68% of the kids organized the cards based on the color of their skin. This just shows that children at such a young age are not nearly as color-blind as most adults expect.

Better to "laugh at" than "be" laughed at?

Lets face the facts, no one likes to be the butt of someone else's joke, but is it better to be on the other end making fun of someone? While there may be many perks to making fun of innocent little kids, such as fitting in with the cool kids, or helping feel better about yourself, it isn't necessarily better. A great man once said "that which does not kill you, only makes you stronger." This is a very true statement, the child being made fun of can grow compassionate because he is often made fun of, and help others in similar situations. Also it takes a great amount of courage to dress how you want, or to behave how you do, regardless of what the other people say. On the other hand, it takes nothing to go along with the main-stream group and make fun of someone. In conclusion I believe it is better to be made fun of than to make fun of others. Like I previously stated, anyone can make fun of others, but it takes a lot of courage to be able to take a joke.