"MOST OF US CARRY PREJUDICE."
Dr Myrna Lashley, a Barbadian and a nationally recognised psychologist in Canada, was talking about a tendency among people, Bajans and Canadians included, to harbour false assumptions about people of different ethnic or racial backgrounds.

Such stereotypes can range from "all Whites are racists" and "Blacks are lazy and ignorant"to "these foreigners from the other islands are untrustworthy" and "most immigrants are in our country illegally".

"These are stereotypes that reflect prejudice, a tendency to prejudge. Most of us believe things about people or are willing to believe things about people, especially if we have decided that we don't like that group or we know people from that group and so we are going to taint them with that brush. Barbadians are no different."

She defined prejudice as the ability "to prejudge without knowledge".

Janice Ward Parris, author of The Sweet Shade Of A Chinaberry Tree, prepared a list of questions to encourage people to test themselves.

"The questions as they stand require a yes or no answer," said Dr Lashley.

"This is not a scientific test and the purpose is to get people to look at themselves."

Here are the questions:

1) When telling a story about a person of another race and the point of the story is not about race, do you identify the person by race or colour, such as a white woman or black man?

2) In a meeting where your race is in the minority, do you feel nervous or uncomfortable?

3) If you see a person of another race where your race is dominant, say, your club, work, bar and so on – do you feel inclined to be especially friendly to prove you are not prejudiced?

4) If a person of another race treats you rudely or especially nicely, do you question whether the unusual treatment is because of your race?

5) Would you hesitate to do business with someone of a different race?

6) Would you be nervous about walking around at night in a neighbourhood of a predominantly different race, even though it looked safe?


7) Would you be more hesitant to make a sales call or to sell an insurance policy to a person of another race?

8) Would you be less likely to stop and help someone of another race?

9) If you noticed a $10 bill missing from your belongings at work, would you first suspecta co-worker of a different race?

10) At night on a dark street would you feel threatened encountering a person of a different race?

How did you perform?

A single "yes" signals a remarkable insulation from racial differences or you have overcome a high degree of prejudice.

Two to three "yes" answers indicate fewer prejudices than most.

Four to seven "yes" responses suggests you are about the same as most people when it comes to racial bias.

Eight to ten "yes" answers: a considerable amount of bias exists but there is an opportunity to re-examine beliefs and base your reactions on experience, not myth.

My answers

1)yes, 2)no 3)no 4)yes 5)no 6)yes 7)no 8)no 9)no 10)no

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) In a meeting where your race is in the minority, do you feel nervous or uncomfortable?

Depends on what kinda meeting, if its a klan meeting, then yes i'be a bit nervous

bighairlol@ Stick-upkid

Two to three "yes" answers indicate fewer prejudices than most.

Wow! and here I was thinking that I was one racist b***h bighairlol

come on peeps. take the damn test

1) When telling a story about a person of another race and the point of the story is not about race, do you identify the person by race or colour, such as a white woman or black man?

Nope.

2) In a meeting where your race is in the minority, do you feel nervous or uncomfortable?

Nope

3) If you see a person of another race where your race is dominant, say, your club, work, bar and so on – do you feel inclined to be especially friendly to prove you are not prejudiced?


Nope


4) If a person of another race treats you rudely or especially nicely, do you question whether the unusual treatment is because of your race?

Yes, if I don't know them at all.

5) Would you hesitate to do business with someone of a different race?

Yes, depending on "which" race.

6) Would you be nervous about walking around at night in a neighbourhood of a predominantly different race, even though it looked safe?

Nope

7) Would you be more hesitant to make a sales call or to sell an insurance policy to a person of another race?

Nope

8) Would you be less likely to stop and help someone of another race?

Nope. I wouldn't help anyone regardless, unless they asked.

9) If you noticed a $10 bill missing from your belongings at work, would you first suspecta co-worker of a different race?


Nope


10) At night on a dark street would you feel threatened encountering a person of a different race?

Nope

Stick up: no need I already know I'm an out and out Prejudice againast certain things...so why would i need to confirm what I already know....