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Do you have an automatic preference for white over black?

Asked by troubleinharlem (7991points) February 10th, 2011

I’m reading the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and it led me to take a test here (down at the very bottom). I found it to be kind of creepy because it shows your automatic preference shown by your unconscious mind and your snap judgments.

Would you like to take it and share your results? I got that I slightly preferred black over white, which I wouldn’t consider to be necessarily true, but it was still eye-opening for me.

If you don’t want to share your result (which is okay!) then would you like to discuss why you think this happened and why your subconscious made these quick decisions while you were unaware?

Here’s what my book says at the end of the chapter:

So what does this mean? Does this mean that I’m a racist? Not exactly. What it means is that our attitudes toward things like race or gender operate on two levels. We have our conscious attitudes, what we choose to believe, and the unconscious level, the immediate automatic associations.

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