The Barbie Doll Test
In the original Doll Test, conducted in the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark placed two baby dolls on a table - one white and one black, and asked children between the ages of 3 to 7 to select the doll they preferred.
Nearly all of the participants selected the white doll.
In 2006 Kiri Davis, a black high school student, reconducted the Doll Test, named “A girl like me” and got nearly the same results.
Here is a similar Doll Test nowadays with 3 kinds of Barbie Dolls: black, white and latino.
As you can see, each doll was dressed the same, so their only distinctions were skin and hair color.
Children were asked, which doll was prettiest and which doll was bad. These are the results:
Which doll is prettiest?
Which doll is bad?
It’s like those kids are saying: I want to be white when I grow up
The thing I don’t get is why the parents always act surprised, shocked or embarrassed. They’re your children, you raised them to be like that. 😒
lawlliets