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The influence of childhood training on the adulthood rejection of discrimination in go set a watchman
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Abstract Racial prejudice, injustice, and discrimination against people of colored skin, especially African Americans, has become a global issue since the twenty century. Blacks are deprived of their rights regardless of their human natures and are disenfranchised from White's societies due to their skin col... mehr
Racial prejudice, injustice, and discrimination against people of colored skin, especially African Americans, has become a global issue since the twenty century. Blacks are deprived of their rights regardless of their human natures and are disenfranchised from White's societies due to their skin color which has put them as inferior and clownish creatures in White’s point of view. Although many anti-racist effort and speeches has done to solve racist issues and eliminate racism and its circumstances, still racism is alive and Blacks are suffering from it. Although, many White individuals accept themselves as anti-racist characters that color of skin does not matter to them, they still show prejudice and discrimination towards Blacks and cannot consider them as equal as themselves. A reason to such Whites' thought and behavior is that they have faced this issue since their childhood and therefore they cannot change it because this attitude is entangled with their personality and is deeply ingrained in them. Thus, a way to stop and eliminate discrimination, prejudice, and injustice is to train children, the next generation, as anti-racist and color-blind characters. In this regard, it has been tried to investigate the role of children training in the elimination of social and racial discrimination in Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman (2015), which is sequel novel to her masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Moreover, Jean Piaget's theory of Children's Cognitive Development has been used for a better understanding of this investigation.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kind; Erziehung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Diskriminierung; Rassismus; Antirassismus; Literatur; Kognition
Klassifikation
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
Lee, H.
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 15-24
Zeitschriftentitel
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2017) 76
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)