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6. Rosetta Lee - Early Awareness of Differences

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straight out of the Carolinas because this notion of children don't know difference or notice difference the research is blowing that out of the water over and over again they notice Race by 6 months of it they can tell Rachel differences and their verbal so what you can do what you need to do is measure gays in their own racial group or the racial group of their primary caretaker the gays time is different than if you show them photographs of people of different racial groups so clearly they know right and by nine months of age they're actually starting to show preference okay so you can have two who found the exact same toy and they will reach for the toy head being held by person who matches their primary character how big is the closer you look like to my family or caretaker the more likely you're going to take care of me or feed me looks like an evolutionary and survival thing that they do but the reality is preference shows up years old they are aware of their gender and we know this because the kids were really on the opposite end of the transgender Spectrum so they're born logically a boy but they super identifies a girl or born biologically a girl and super identify the boy they start showing signs of appear that gender starting at 18 months of age or two to three years ago Transylvania  and because if you show up three-year-old the counter stereotypical message especially like a masculine looking man with an apron holding a baby they won't let you no there's something wrong with that picture  they notice different ending love to categorize and they love to tried what the differences are and they absolutely want to know what those differences mean and we do this in the curriculum to like we're like let's sort things by color these things by let's get Define what this needs to find what that means or Natural Curiosity and we satisfy their curiosity about except for identity over and over again Square why is my skin color different than mine is this idea how to make these okay kids pick up a few things one talking about different sand turn on full thing and the adults of my life are not going to Define these things for me so I better figure it out on my own and they look at Miss representative media they look at neighborhood segregation they look at who's in the school and who's not in the school they look at which go to their house to play and how to how do they spend social time what are the what's the music that they let you always choose and sadly they pick up societal byassee and they start manifesting you can do this research and homogeneous areas diverse areas like liberal areas conservative areas profiteroles a cartoon strip of an identical cartoon little girl and the only difference is she comes in different skin tones and you ask that five year old what's a girl who's nice to the girl whose name onto the girl who smart poem to the girl who's not so good in school they won't associate positive attributes with and negative attributes with darker skin sometimes even children of color That's How Deeply ingrained ease by since become and if you show what from that research the parents and teachers they are more to fund their like that is not what I teach my children that is not what we believe in as a family or as a school but what is if you're not teaching them something else they're going to think you think that so my my thing is it's it's not our job to Shield them will it be maintained their innocence it's really more like making sure that be explicit who's the best to the dermal I could neutralize those instead of the external message Now by seven years old they can regulate their biases they know what to say and do despite the fact who's byassee  and we know this from research where you can have a 5 year old and A7 year old in interaction in the five-year-old's going to blurt out whatever they think and the seven year old will Coach the five-year-old but you can tell how to 7 year old has been topped by the way they coach the by girls so let's say a five year old boys boys are just better than girls the seven-year-old miCoach the five-year-old by saying you know what some boys are better than some girl that's some things but now what some girls are better than some boys at other things so it's not fair it's not right to say boys are better than girls some kid will Coach the five-year-old by saying the third grade they're aware of societal biases or belief but they know what the major stereotypes are so I'm going to Terry type workshop with third graders and I remember there was a Jewish little boy who was like oh yeah these are all the stereo you know you're right he's like he was not the only like emotionally can you see a relationship now by fifth grade it's they start to believe  we know this because research around stereo red stars manifest right around this age and 5th grade like surfaces of the way it shows up take about your group and you get into a situation where you might prove a stereotype true there's a part of you even at a subconscious level that's worried about that and spend sec energy worrying about that that you perform right into sterotype so for example there just start out there that says African Americans are not as smart as whites how many qualified mixed race if you tell the first group problem-solving task we're curious as to have different people approach different types of problems there will be no racial achievement yet blacks in lights  if you tell another group of equally qualified college students this is an academic achievement tests like the SAT and ACT is a of your intellectual and academic performance and potential and then they take the test you will see an achievement Gap  now don't know how settle this in Impact is you can get together two groups of Eve  and the both groups are tool cast of in lower for both groups Ray the first group just takes a test again no racial achievement Gap the second group of pulls out race bubbles  bubbles at the what race you are and the actor filling out bubbles the list it's in a chief the bubble effect as been shown with Latinos and language performance girls and Mathematics performer like the educational testing service ETS there's small-scale test of girls taking AP Calculus test before and after filling out bubbles and they did notice a difference now if they were to translate the small-scale test to all the girls taking the AP Calculus test it's estimated that Boards of 5000 additional girl annual pass the AP Calculus test if we would just move the bubbles to the end of the test  Covenant of the bubbles I've been talking to them for years and you know so far like systems are really slow but here's the thing it's not just test either like it's really about whenever there's stereotype and you remind people of their identity they will perform according to certain time can you can say a miniature you can give mix race participants a miniature golf task and if you people can you call an innate ability black people out before my people  if you give an Asian girl an engineering problem solving puzzle if you remind her she's Asia the girl she will underperform you give a group of older people a list of War and you have that article about how there's no link between aging and memory thank you remember the list just fine but if you show them a short article saying there's a link between agent and memory they can't run and that starts to show up in 5th grade  so this notion of we have to start early and we have to do

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