Race issues #1

In my first year of uni I remember in one of the lectures the lecture said something along the lines of “I don’t agree with the word racism, after all we are all one race... the human race” Now this lecturer is notorious for being mind-numbingly boring, but that one sentence made me give him just that bit more respect because it rings so true!

What perplexes me is that how one psychologist can be so frank as to say something so blindingly obvious, whereas others don’t seem to go by the same logic... let me elaborate...

For my third year project one of the things I’m investigating is the “cross race effect” aka the “other race effect”. Basically this is the phenomenon whereby you are more likely to remember and pay attention to a face of the same “race” as you, as opposed to a face which is a different “race” to you. Example, a Pakistani person is more likely to pay attention to (and consequently remember) another Pakistani face better than... let’s say a Malaysian face and vice versa for a Pakistani person. There’s over thirty years of worldwide research in this area and not one person anywhere has brought up the fact that research is riddled with phrases such as “other race faces”. I mean what the hell is that supposed to mean anyway??, does it mean that those faces are aliens, or elephants perhaps, after all aliens are another race, so are elephants. HELLO!! *waves hand madly in the face of all those top notch psychologists* in case you hadn’t realised we’re all humans here!??

Anyway rant over, I’ve decided I don’t like the new banner it needs some tweaking...