Does racial diversity really make people more sensitive and understanding towards race?

Statistically, it can be shown that in places with less diversity, people have typically more stereotypes and prejudices than in places with more a diverse population. This can be attributed to the simple fact that those people usually don't know anyone who isn't "like them" and thus have no reason to doubt the stereotypes and prejudices which they hold.

Somebody asked: "But why would someone have a stereotype about a group they don't interact with?"

Wikipedia defines stereotypes as "ideas held by some individuals about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group."

The whole point is that they don't apply to somebody you know, but to a whole group. These stereotypes are usually not based on personal experience, but on what people read, hear or see in the media or from other people. Steretypes are generalizations. If you know people from a certain group, you're less likely to make generalizations about the group as a whole.

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But why would someone have a stereotype about a group they don't interact with? This still doesn't make sense to me.
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by SalientAlien on September 22nd, 2006
Because people are ignorant. They just prejudge because for some reason that's what people do.
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by HeeroYui752 on July 30th, 2008

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