We, as humans, suffer from ‘ethnocentric bias’. In a nutshell, this is where we trust people that look like us or from the same community. This is why in apparent multi-cultural schools the different cultural groups may be huddled together at lunchtime.The consequence of this is that many of our cities and towns are siloed by class, race and religion. The reality is much more extreme than Channel 4 is able to present.
I was moved by the reactions the students had when the Asian students were labelled as terrorists or the white students as drunks. But do not believe that any of those students were racist or held deep prejudices: they are just a victim of circumstance. A victim of us living within easy comfort zones.
Yeah. Kumbaya
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