miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2015

31% OF WHITE MILLENNIALS RATE BLACKS AS LAZIER THAN WHITES


The Washington Compost did an article on how different generations of Whites perceive the Negro.  Looks as if there is not much difference from the way White Generation-Xers and White millennials view Black folk.  31% of White millennials rated Blacks as lazier than Whites where as 32% of White Generation-Xers viewed Blacks in a similar fashion.
  I would argue that these numbers are really much higher, as many do not want to be perceived as “racist” even if they are merely participating in a study.
Racial slurs that have cropped up chantse-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, “Are 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.

(Source: dailyslave.com)
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