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...People expect to feel much more emotion than they actually do. We are good at rationalizing responses," says Jack Dovidio, a Yale psychologist and co-author of the study. "If there are certain costs - we don't want to get involved, maybe because we aren't quite as committed to equality as we thought we were - then we go through a series of rationalizations: 'Maybe it wasn't that bad.' That's the danger - that we explain everything away. It justifies our behavior...
...KEYNOTE SPEECH of the first-ever AWARE Week in 1989, Colgate psychologist John Dovidio told the gathered penitents that 15 percent of Americans are overtly racist, while the remaining 85 percent are racists and don't realize it. The message was clear: AWARE Week intends to dig out that hidden fiber of racism and hang it out for view, thus comforting the aggrieved and assuaging the consciences of the offenders. This week's agenda is loaded with the same stuff: a workshop on "Addressing Issues of Personal Racism," a panel discussion on "Multiculturalism in the Ivory Tower...
...opening speech by Colgate professor John Dovidio was well-attended, but other events, such as a forum on institutional racism, drew only 20 to 25 people each...
Ironically, part of the answer may lie within Dovidio's speech. Dovidio, who has spent yeas researching the topic, finds that most Americans, up to 85 out of every 100, do not consider themselves prejudiced...
...same time, the idea of "difference" between "my group" and "your group," the distinction between any arbitrary division of students or schools or people with different skin or hair or eyes makes it impossible to resolve racism. It is, as Dovidio says, one of the most natural things in the world. And that is why it must be addressed...