When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens

[Blackking]

I guess race isn't real but... maybe the cure to most issues is ...... something related to this.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6328654?cps=gravity_2900_-5356652454641738653

 

[Auger]

You're not going to post a summary, video or nothing?

 

[Hagendas]

Lazy posting

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Do any of yal remember that Ice Cube produced reality tv show where a white family became black and a black family became white?

 

[XII]

Negged for getting me to read at 7:30 in the morning

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

 

[Blackking]

Negged for getting me to read at 7:30 in the morning

Thanks...


The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to "walk a mile in someone else's shoes," as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are taking the maxim one step further, providing people an opportunity to experience life in someone else's skinby experimenting with virtual reality as a means of helping people shed racial stereotypes.

Researchers from London and Barcelona teamed up to discuss their recent experiments on virtual reality and race in an opinion piece for thejournal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, published Dec. 15. The researchers found that if people got the chance to physically experience their own body with different skin colors (or ages and sexes), their unconscious biases against other racial groups could be diminished.

This isn't merely a question of changing mentality or perception. The experience of "living" in different skin triggers sensory signals in the brain that allow it to expand its understanding of what a body can look like. This can "cause people to change their attitudes about others," wrote the study's co-researcher, Professor Mel Slater, a part-timeprofessor of virtual environments at the University College London and research professor at the University of Barcelona.

"Our methods and findings might help us understand how to approach phenomena such as racism, religious hatred, and gender inequality discrimination, since the methods offer the opportunity for people to experience the world from the perspective of someone different from themselves," said Professor Manos Tsakiris of the Royal Holloway University of London in a press release about the study review.

The research has special significance in the wake of the deaths of Staten Island resident Eric Garner andFerguson, Mo. teen Michael Brown, which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said have raised issues over "implicit bias and pervasive community distrust," as reported by CNN.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Wow, white folks dont have the human emotion known as empathy.

What a surprise!

 

[Blackking]

Wow, white folks dont have the human emotion known as empathy.

What a surprise!

Solution??

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Solution??

They'd have to lose their constant privilege and experience that loss from birth.

An old white nurse from the north told me about about a convo she had with a fellow white one from the south.
Told me some white folks are on some "Well, that's the way things have always been. Why change tradition?"-type shyt

Evil is second nature whether they know it or not. That's how ignorant they are.

 

[Blackking]

They'd have to lose their constant privilege and experience that loss from birth.

An old white nurse from the north told me about about a convo she had with a fellow white one from the south.
Told me some white folks are on some "Well, that's the way things have always been. Why change tradition?"-type shyt

Evil is second nature whether they know it or not. That's how ignorant they are.

umm, yeah...



that's what i was thinking too

 

[unit321]

I guess race isn't real but... maybe the cure to most issues is ...... something related to this.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6328654?cps=gravity_2900_-5356652454641738653

My friend is white, both parents are white. But his mother is French Mediterranean so he's olive skinned. Some white person thought he was black and called him a nigg*r.

 

[Ruck]

what is the purpose of this with regards to racism and especially the deaths of brown and garner? this maybe cool for cacs who rarely see or interact with blacks, but if they think this shyt will bring some sort of new perspective, especially here in america... . if you need technology to help shed your false notions, u lost. im white and i don't need to conduct a research or look at a fukking computer animated reality to see the privilege i have been born with and bullshyt that's going on in society in terms of racial equality.

the problem is simple. the modern world is shaped from white ideology, and they don't want nobody changing that.

 

[mrken12]

Of course the Bluffington Post would have one of these "experiments".

what is the purpose of this with regards to racism and especially the deaths of brown and garner? this maybe cool for cacs who rarely see or interact with blacks, but if they think this shyt will bring some sort of new perspective, especially here in america... . if you need technology to help shed your false notions, u lost. im white and i don't need to conduct a research or look at a fukking computer animated reality to see the privilege i have been born with and bullshyt that's going on in society in terms of racial equality.

the problem is simple. the modern world is shaped from white ideology, and they don't want nobody changing that.

I really hate bullshyt studies and experiments like this from fake white liberals trying to pretend like they give a fukk. This won't change anyone's perspective and they know that.

 

[CinnaSlim]

Do any of yal remember that Ice Cube produced reality tv show where a white family became black and a black family became white?