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Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds
schliz writes "Real-world behaviours and racial biases could carry forward into virtual worlds such as Second Life, social psychologists say. According to a study that was conducted in There.com, virtual world avatars respond to social cues in the same ways that people do in the real world. Users, who were unaware that they were part of a psychological study, were approached by a researcher's avatar for either a 'foot-in-the-door' (FITD) or 'door-in-the-face' (DITF) experiment. While results of the FITD experiment revealed no racial bias, the effect of the DITF technique was significantly reduced when the experimenter took the form of a dark-skinned avatar."
Look at the definition of racism. It means you believe one race to be superior to another.
Racially biased simply means you choose one over the other. It has been proved, and is logically obvious based upon the facts of evolutionary biology, that everyone prefers others of their same race. This is not because they think they are superior, but simply because they are programed to. They are not programed to think they are superior, they are programed to protect the distinctness of their race, to prevent its extinction. As well, organisms evolved altruism to help themselves. An organism, say the White race, naturally evolved to help itself over other organisms, in order to give itself an advantage over the other competing organisms on this planet. Just as one is programed to help their family first, before helping people outside their family, everyone is programmed to help their own race first, before helping others.
Its says you hate you parents! :-P
Actually I have no clue. All I know is I love women of all flavors and my daughter is living proof, being of mixed-race.