[QUOTE=Zeke129;45415157]You literally just said that we need to teach black kids to deal with it.[/QUOTE]
That's what you do in society. You teach people what's good, bad, and important to care about. I guess teaching kids that what color a person is irrelevant to who they are as a person is teaching them to deal with it?
[QUOTE=Glitchbunny;45410344]Yes, if a ethnic kid, bombarded with white influences, starts to question why they may be different and feel negative about themselves, then clearly it's because their parents failed at their duties.
Children think about their differences from one another whether taught or not ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_and_Mamie_Clark[/url]), and to think that society doesn't play a role in shaping influences? You're deluding yourself.[/QUOTE]
Have you even read the study yourself?
[QUOTE] The child was then asked questions inquiring as to which one is the doll they would play with, which one is the nice doll, which one looks bad, which one has the nicer color, etc. The experiment showed a clear preference for the white doll among all children in the study.[19] [U]These findings exposed internalized racism in African-American children, self-hatred that was more acute among children attending segregated schools[/U]. This research also paved the way for an increase in psychological research into areas of self-esteem and self-concept.[/QUOTE]
The study is about how segregation damage children, in other words, if you are not allowed to do the same things as people of the main ethnicity of the country. By making books for a specific ethnicity you are kind of doing the same thing, you are separating black, white and all colors inbetween.
Also I never said that it's the parents fault that the kids feel different. I said that it is their job to make them understand that there is nothing wrong with being different. Of course the child will notice that it is of another color but unless they are raised to do so, I don't think they will make a huge deal out of it and feel negative about themselves. That being said, I agree that society plays a role but by making toys a specific color for specific ethnicities I think you are causing more segregation and will only contibute to the problem.
[QUOTE=spekter;45410465]No good writer would even bother specifying a character's skin tone unless there was a solid reason for it. Chekhov's gun is one of the simplest and most important rules to follow.[/QUOTE]
Sure, but a lot of children's books are picture books
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45395185]I haven't read many books that explicitly said what a characters ethnicity was[/QUOTE]
I spent 5 years thinking Harry Potter was black.
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