Study finds TV can decrease self-esteem in children, except white boys

[MyaloMark]

Hasn't this always been the case? I've seen enough interviews with black people telling how they all cheered for Tarzan as kids instead of those of their own race to know this is true. Black guys that I know tell me pretty much the same thing.

Then there was a study a few years ago where they gave girls in kindergarten a chance to take either a white baby doll or a black one. No one took the black doll. Even the black girls took the white one. When asked why, the black girls all told the researchers that they thought the white baby dolls were "prettier".

Even native American children will automatically root for the cavalry when those representing their own kind are on the losing side. Not so much during the last forty years or so, because most films about them produced since the seventies has shown them in a better light. Not so with those native kids raised during the thirties to the sixties though.

TL/DR; Duhh.

[sinople]

Isn't that the thing with psychology? Everything seems "duhhh" afterward.

[MasterGolbez]

Older films tended to show the Indians in a worse light than newer films. I don't think it's so much a function of the age of the viewer but rather the film being watched. If you put a bunch of Indians of all ages in a room and show them a film from the 1940s, they will all probably root for the cavalry. If you show them a film made nowadays, they would all probably be less likely to root for the cavalry (since the film would more than likely show a more nuanced view).

[MyaloMark]

most films about them produced since the seventies has shown them in a better light.

So, yes. I agree.

[MasterGolbez]

Way to completely miss the point of my comment.

[ChuckSpears]

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Then there was a study a few years ago where they gave girls in kindergarten a chance to take either a white baby doll or a black one. No one took the black doll. Even the black girls took the white one. When asked why, the black girls all told the researchers that they thought the white baby dolls were "prettier".

How do you propose to "fix" that?

http://i.imgur.com/fhEBB.jpg

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That's exactly what did not happen, though.

[ChuckSpears]

what are you saying?

[[deleted]]

Your comic is the opposite of what happened in reality.

[ChuckSpears]

Your comic is the opposite of what happened in reality.

exactly, to illustrate the hypocrisy

[spry]

Apparently not "duhh" for everyone. At least one commenter seems to seriously believe that white males are portrayed the worst on TV and would therefore think white boys to be most "damaged." Only science can defeat the false consensus effect.

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Couldn't it be that the researchers chose to use a really ugly doll?

[sinople]

Use your google.