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Are You Racist?

That's exactly it. If an 'African American' whatever that is

I do think it's funny that the test was clearly aimed at white and black Americans and completely ignored all other types of people.

They have other tests for some other groups of people, but I think the majority of studies (at least in psychology) that deal with minorities in the US cover African Americans and Hispanics or Latinos/Latinas.

Of course minorities can have their own stereotypes, prejudices, and discriminatory behavior towards other groups. We touched on this briefly in class but it seems like there just isn't as much focus on other interactions.

There's actually a ton of interesting stuff, such as cases where individuals in a minority will appear prejudiced against their own group, something that has been attributed to preserving social norms. I don't want to discuss all of it because this isn't my social psychology class and we only spent a week covering it, so I'm far from an expert. I just thought that people may find the idea of implicit racism interesting through this test. I'd suggest that people do more research on the topic themselves, especially if they find things confusing or incorrect, as it's quite an interesting subject.
 
Well... I don't think I'm racist, per se. But whenever I say something like this:

This nasty Mexican guy sat down next to me and he smelled like barf.

People interpret it as:

God... I fricking HATE Mexicans!

I don't hate Mexican people, and it's not just for their tasty burritos. I have very rarely seen a Mexican other than illegal immigrants who speak English less than they shower. I know there are good Mexican people out there- it's just that the majority I've seen haven't been very good representatives of Mexican society as a whole. I can list more than 10 Mexican classmates who are actually very intelligent people and really good friends, but when I walk in to Food-4-Less I see over 50 who smell like they would lose half their body weight in germs if they correctly applied soap.
 
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