The Effect of Culture on Gender and Racial Bias

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220401.202How to use a DOI?

Keywords

culture; learned behaviors; gender bias; implicit bias; racism

Abstract

This paper explores the effect culture has on gender and racial biases. Possible behaviors expressed to show gender bias include linking different characteristics and items to different genders; for example, more than half of participants (N > 600,000) linked males with subjects representing rationality and reason and females with subjects relating to sensations (liberal arts). Biological responses to different races are also studied by previous research to elucidate the possible bias toward out-group people. Cultural influences significantly affected a person’s perception of gender and race: for the gender issues in India’s case, people tend to believe women as inferior roles and negligible existence. Those Indian women are taught and forced to follow the local traditions, becoming those who obey males in their family. Thus, the culture of the living place where people grow up considerably determines people’s mindset about these biases.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiaying Zhu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - The Effect of Culture on Gender and Racial Bias
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1056
EP  - 1060
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.202
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.202
ID  - Zhu2022
ER  -