The famous “doll test” was first tried in the 1940s in the United States, where African-American children responded to dolls of different skin tones. What happened when the experiment was recreated in Singapore, for the programme Regardless Of Race: 5 Years On, with pre-schoolers from the minority races?
The results are disheartening: Just like in America, they show that racial prejudice and discrimination in society can condition feelings of inferiority even in young children.
But researchers are also looking into whether children can be trained early on to reduce their own racial biases. OnePeople.sg chairman Janil Puthucheary tries this solution out on a class of preschoolers.
0:00 “Which doll is nice? Which doll looks bad?”
01:29 “Which doll do you want to look like?”
01:51 How racial bias could be reduced in children
Watch the full two-part special, Regardless of Race: 5 Years On:
Finding Out That We All Have Hidden Racial Bias [ Ссылка ]
What Can Be Done About Our Implicit Racial Biases? [ Ссылка ]
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