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

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