Mexico: Racism Prevalent Among Children, Revealing Cultural Pattern (Study)

Racism aside… The researchers never consider the colors themselves; white vs black, day vs night, good vs evil, danger vs safety from an evolutionary standpoint.Think about confounding variables… Mexico’s children do just fine.

Mexicans never recovered from colonial era brainwashing. They are and will remain a backwards thinking group of people for decades to come. Their inferiority complex is generational, its been a fact of mexican existence which began with their intial encounters with the spaniards.

I, too, have been discriminated against by mexicans. But in talking to a REAL native of mexico she pointed out that they (the REAL mexicans) have suffered from racism from the very beginning when the spaniards first arrived. So this racist problem may have its beginnings in europe. At any rate, the latin’s in the US do not appear to have a case against racial discrimination in the US when they themselves are racially prejudiced and bigoted.

Mexicans are extremely racist. Most south Americans can’t stand them.

Why were the “ugly or pretty’ & “good or bad” the only options given? why weren’t they just asked what they thought? Sounds to me like there was more prejudice among the researchers.

I grew up in Mexico, and as a light skin Latino, I definitely had some advantages. This video does not display anything new or surprising. Yes, the questions are very limiting and almost entrapped the children, but their explanations are the important thing to listen to.

This is very sad to me but helps me understand the mentality of some people. I worked in law enforcement where I was involved in a critical incident where I was almost killed; I sustained a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and learning disabilities as a result of the incident. I was forced to kill a Mexican male who was going to kill others after he killed me. The polictical fall-out was viscious. There were rumors and talks by Mexican political organizations that I did not like Mexicans. Being married to a Mexican female and having biracial children it was very hurtful and upsetting. Having grown up in a predominately mexican neighborhood and having dated Mexican women, I learned Spanish as a result of respect for their culture. I find it sad to learn that a country is creating an environment where darker people, (Cuban, prueto rican, Dominicans braizilians and African Americans)are seen as inferior. I will inform my biracial children that the are to be aware of this they grow………..this is really sad!!!!!

It is easier to read light skinned people’s facial expressions and physiological changes.

It may be racism that researchers and ideologues don’t realize this.

Is it also racism that people trust men without facial hair over men with facial hair? Maybe that would mean they would trust a man who is Native American who is hairless over a heavily bearded German. Would it be considered racism then?

This classic experiment was originally done decades ago with African-American children. I recently saw a video repeating the experiment with African-American children today. The results were similar, which is extremely sad. These children (African-American in the original experiment and Mexican children in this experiment) are talking about how they see themselves in these dolls. These attitudes reflect internalized racism. Yes, that internalized oppression unfortunately sometimes gets directed toward others, but it is multi-directional, not one-way by any means. For example, the comment about South Americans hating Mexicans is a prime example. In the Americas Mexicans are often targeted with racist assumptions because of indigenous heritage. The children in this video reflect the legacy of white supremacy, racism, classism, colonialism, and genocide. If this experiment were conducted with children in any country that has been colonized and impacted by white supremacy and racism you would have the same results.

Guatemalans think that Mexicans are racist and we share similar indigenous heritage. What I’m about to say will sound incredibly horrible, but it is the truth. When I first arrived in the US, I had never met a Black person and had no preconceived ideas about them. I was never told anything negative about them before coming. It was the same with every Central American immigrant back then. Within months, every one of us became prejudiced. Not because of anything the “White man” told us, but because of personal experiences.

This reminded me of the equally astute and simple research on sexism 30 some years ago in which subjects were given the same essay to grade but with a male or female name as author. Both men and women subjects graded the one signed with a male name substantially (statistically significantly)higher.

Also reminds me of how Japanese anime children have round western eyes.

We need to teach our children to love themselves and to value what’s real. Anything else is tragic.

As an African American who lives in the Chicago area, I have not experience any racism from Mexicans. My encounters have been that of mutual respect and recognition that we are subjected to the same prejudice and racism on a daily basis. The article took an extreme position that is difficult to perceive as a reality for any groups of Mexicans; whether here or in the United States or in Mexico.

There are native indigenous Mexicans that only marry their own and they would
most likely say their race is the best. Go interview them.

To answer a question oft-regurgitated here: yes, this very experiment has been performed in the US with black and white children at least twice since before the Civil Rights Movement. The answers are always the same. The children always exhibit a preference for the whiter-skinned dolls, photos, illustrations, etc.

As for the why? We all know why; historically when white-skinned persons have come into contact with darker-skinned persons there is a pattern of subjugation, domination and administration over the conquered peoples. White tends to be the winner; I have to say that much, and I’m Black – lighter-skinned, mixed-race, but I am Black.

I grew up and lived in Texas for most of my life, specifially in Harris County which – according to the last survey I read – has the nation’s largest population of Mexicans or people of Mexican background outside of New York City (the 5 boroughs, also counties, which constitute the City).
I happen to have married a white-skinned, light-eyed 1st generation American of Mexican background; this is a matter of genes as practically all other members of his family present with ‘typically’ Mexican (mestizo) features as compared with his – his is not a Spanish-Mexican family.
Several of my friends and acquaintances were Latino of either Mexican or Central/South American background – 1st generation American or naturalized, if citizens at all, so there was opportunity for substantial exposure to the native Mexican or Central/South American members of these families.

Multiple experiences stemming from this convergence of circumstances – the behavior of my husband’s family and interactions I have witnessed between Mexicans and other Latinos – lead me to conclude that Mexicans do exhibit a prejudice against Blacks and those exhibiting typically Black physical features that is unequalled by other Latinos. This is my opinion as derived from what I and others within my realm of familiarity have seen of Mexicans and their interactions with non-Mexican Latinos and from what other Latinos of non-Mexican background have described to me in their interactions with Mexicans.

That said, Eurocentrism is not unique to Mexico; Mexicans have no greater claim to anti-Black sentiments than any other nation of people. It is a color/hair/features thing, make no mistake; for all the bluster about classism the question must still be answered -Why are darker-skinned persons ranked by the society around them lower in the strata? The participation of children in studies such as these really only serves to strengthen the assertion that there is an aesthetic (possibly inherent) prejudice against those physical features associated with sub-Saharan African ancestry.

Im from Massachusetts (not really, just moved there a few years ago). I made sure to get my absentee ballot in for Brown. I think if the election is run honestly (that means if the Republicans have enough monitors and lawyers to challenge all the cheaters) Brown will win. The momentum is all his, his opponent is a mindless Democrat stick of wood, and everyone, from everywhere, is sick of the socialist push that has been going on. But I remain worried. Ive seen what organizations like ACORN can do to steal an election at the last minute. Well see them holding the polling stations in Boston open until 10:00 because of heavy turnout (I guess those dead bodies they carry into the polls are pretty heavy), and the numbers will shift towards the idiot. Every school bus in Boston will be put into action, toting a bunch of illiterate deadbeats to the polls who couldnt care about voting (only the cigarettes and sandwiches they are paid with, a la New Orleans).

I mean Mexicans’ aren’t bad but this is a problem i’m american but half Mexican and this is my opinion on this but this is a big problem in Mexico.