He categorizes the rest of the book by different ethnic groups and the specific stereotypes (and crude pictures) that label each one. All in all, he claims that racism is hating a specific individual on the basis of their race, along with stereotypes that feed into the assumption of the person.Stereotypes can be very useful in our everyday social interactions and decision-making. They are actually a kind of survival instinct---a crude form of received inductive reasoning that can help us make snap judgements in situations where we do not know all the facts. (Dalton 4)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
A Practical Guide to Racism by C.H. Dalton (Library Research)
According to Dalton, the human race is not an actual race, but rather a species divided into several species that are grouped based off of physical appearances. Dalton states that "Racism is the dislike of another race as a whole, or of another person solely because he is a member of a certain race" (Dalton 3). He goes on to explain that racism oversimplifies the differences in characteristics among individuals. Later exclaiming that:
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