IAT Tests

I believe the results I got were kind of far off. It said I had an automatic bias to European Americans. I believe that I do not, I have hardly even met anyone who is African American so it is difficult for me to see why I would have a bias in the first place. The page says that biases begin at the age of three, which is a surprising age for someone to begging having opinions yet even more interesting because sometimes they do not know that they have them. I believe that this does change some of my thoughts about the movie "I Sit Where I Want" because much of these biases are not conscious, they are subconscious. Many of the people that were in the movie said that they thought that they had no preference for black or white they just happened to sit with black or white people. I believe that they began sitting at their tables because they went with their gut instinct when they first went into high school. This would make them rely on their biases for the first little bit. After they got acquainted to high school they would then branch out but they would always stick with their roots, which is where their biases told them to be because the people you first meet you tend to have a greater bonding strength. Biases are interesting because it is difficult for people to realize that they have a bias but even more difficult for people to get over their biases and move on with their lives. What the school in the movie we watched was trying to do was help get rid of the biases people have by intergrating the schools and making a project to have all of the people in the lunch room sit together. I can imagine that trying to have another person get rid of ones biases is next to impossible. The person who has a bias must get rid of it. The problem with the school was that all of the students believed that the other race should come to them and get rid of their biases but they never wanted to do anything to help the other race either become rid of their biases or show them that they were similiar. Each race belived that the other race should do the work and show that they were not as they appeared to other people.