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09/26/2007: "93% of all people are flaming racists"

U.S. researchers found just 7 percent of respondents do not have the usual human tendency to favor one's own group and not form racial prejudices.

Their study, published in the journal Psychological Science, found the 7 percent of people that showed no racial bias differed from biased individuals in a fundamental way -- they also were less likely to form negative emotional associations in general.

[ People who are afraid of life are also afraid to make any negative judgments. They extend this to race. Everyone else prefers their own kind, and within their own kind, people who are most like them, and if they're honest they admit this, especially if social taboos are not so out of control as they are in our current society. ]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2007/09/25/study_few_do_not_form_racial_prejudices/1298/