Canadian Kids Prefer Playmates Of The Same Ethnicity
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 11:02
in Psychology & Sociology
A study in Canada says Canadian pre-schoolers prefer to play with kids more like them.Are Canadian parents ingraining bias in their kids? Or French-Canadians? Hard to know. Participants were recruited from six daycares located in Montreal and its suburbs: 30 mostly second-generation Asian-Canadians and 30 French-Canadians. Children were paired with peers they had known for at least three months. According to the research team, social mores likely prompted a lack of interaction between cultures. read more