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This video shows A Student at Chandler Gilbert Community College in Arizona after finding a racist drawing that was made by other students on a dry erase board in a conference study room located in the college’s library.
To the amazement of one of the students shown in the video who originally is from the Sudan in Africa, now an American Citizen, he did not think racism was alive in either Chandler or Gilbert Arizona. His explicit attitude was that racism did not exist however, his implicit reality was racism was alive.
This video highlights his discovery of the racist writing and the students sad yet honest reality, racism was alive in Arizona, more importantly, at the College they’d been attending for 3 years.
The fact that the student from Africa thought racism was non existent at Chandler Gilbert Community College, even though he’d been called racist names at the mall he works also located in Arizona, is an example of Implicit Attitudes.
Implicit attitudes are the unconscious attitudes a person displays while interacting with the World. These are the behaviors and beliefs others see however, we do not know or sometimes, understand we have.
For instance, a person may have grown up in a family or culture where extreme prejudice against other ethnic groups (implicit attitudes) are deeply ingrained. Implicit attitudes are unconscious and uncontrolled. However, with age, distance, and education a person may choose to adopt an inclusive and non-prejudiced “explicit attitude” (end their racism).
With most things in life, some Implicit attitudes can actually be good yet, some are bad and down right evil.
To learn more about implicit attitudes visit ImplicitAttitudes.com or contact the team at implicitattitudes@gmail.com.