Genetic Disorder Removes Racial Bias and Social Fear

People who suffer from a rare genetic disorder called Williams Syndrome have a complete lack of social fear. They experience no anxiety or concerns about meeting new people or being put into any social situation, and a new study by Andreia Santos suggests that they also don't have any racial bias. From the article: "Typically, children start overtly gravitating towards their own ethnic groups from the tender age of three. Groups of people from all over the globe and all sorts of cultures show these biases. Even autistic children, who can have severe difficulties with social relationships, show signs of racial stereotypes. But Santos says that the Williams syndrome kids are the first group of humans devoid of such racial bias, although, as we’ll see, not everyone agrees."

Devoid of such racial bias

[Anonymous Coward]

They hate everyone equally.

The grey race

[hessian]

Good. Now we can end racism and breed everyone into one uniform Grey Race that will be the future of humankind. We will preserve diversity by creating uniformity. It will be a victory for equality!

Re:GATTACA

[Anonymous Coward]

You want your baby to have a 9" penis?!

Re:The grey race

[gclef]

Grey? I think I see your problem: stop sleeping with women from other planets.

Re:Friendly people

[Anonymous Coward]

"Birds of a feather flock together"

It's not only humans that show preference, it's hard-wired into every living thing with a brain. Fortunately for us, our brains are so developed that we can override this once vital but now irrelevant feature. Well at least some of us can.

You sound like a kike.

Re:GATTACA

[mikael_j]

The not so normal part about that is that he wants a daughter...

Re:Fascinating

[Culture20]

If you're intrigued by this sort of thing, there's a fantastic SF short by Ted Chiang called "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about the consequences and ethics of suppressing a person's ability to recognise (and thus be biased by) physical attractiveness.

If you're not in a reading mood, they made it into a movie called Shallow Hal.

Re:Friendly people

[OakDragon]

If an orphan baby is adopted by parents from a different race, and is surrounded by people of that race, how would he even know what his "own" race is? As long as you keep him away from mirrors, he would not even be able to tell that his face looks different, and althought he could see that he has a different skin color than everyone else, as a toddler he would also have different size and proportions, a far greater difference.

Has anyone tested this?

Yes, and they made a documentary [imdb.com].