I’m 47. But, I was raised by Jewish parents in the Northeast who had a parent or parents who immigrated here, or their grandparents did. We were minorities.
My maternal side was educated and in the arts and fairly liberal. My paternal side there was some mental illness, very poor, and they didn’t say much, and certainly didn’t spend time bitching about other minorities. America was the new country after living through horrors in their former country.
Remember, a lot of Jews traveled down to the South to fight for civil rights. My parents aren’t void of making stereotypes, but they are not racist.
My grandmother worked as a counselor in a high school for pregnant girls for a while. A lot of them were minorities. She probably had some judgment about it, but she treated everyone as an equal and didn’t prejudge people. She would be judging Barbie doll white 16 year olds who are preggers too. I’ve never heard any of my grandparents use a derogatory slang description of anyone, except one time my grandmother told me to get my window treatments backed in white so my house doesn’t look like a Puerto Rican lives inside. LOL. I’m married to a Mexican and that house we decorated with bright colors.
Having said that, I know minority young people who are immigrants or their parents were and are quite racist. It’s annoying.
I do think on the whole, most people under 30 don’t separate people into races like older generations did.
Do you think it’s racist to notice someone’s skin color or eye color? I don’t notice eye color much, I don’t focus on it. Many people over the years have told me I’m lucky to have blue eyes, and I never really gave it much of a thought.