Study Suggests Riding Public Transport Makes You Less Prejudiced

Forget, for a moment, all the usual benefits of public transportation, like cutting greenhouse gases and reducing traffic. There is a new reason to ride the commuter rails: They provide researchers an excellent laboratory for studying human behavior.

The most recent such study, conducted on several commuter rail platforms in the Boston area, finds that mixing with people of different ethnic backgrounds can influence social acceptance, at first for the worse, but then for the better.

“These things like public transit and the way we build our cities very much affect how we interact with people and how we get along as groups,” said Ryan D. Enos, assistant professor of government at Harvard and author of the study, released Monday. “When we invest in infrastructure, we bring intergroup harmony by encouraging people to interact.”

heavenly father wrote:you mean we don't have to sit at the back anymore, how things change...  

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:you mean we don't have to sit at the back anymore, how things change...  

Yes, things changed quite a bit several DECADES ago  ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: 

heavenly father wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenly father wrote:you mean we don't have to sit at the back anymore, how things change...  

Yes, things changed quite a bit several DECADES ago  ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: 

well thank you to my white massers'....  

eddie wrote:HF you're not even black   

smelly_bandit wrote:

eddie wrote:HF you're not even black   

being bleck is a state of mind and a lifestyle choice

smelly_bandit wrote:not sure about that

i think the passengers on board the twin towers flight or the 7/7 bus and tube would disagree

Ben_Reilly wrote:

smelly_bandit wrote:not sure about that

i think the passengers on board the twin towers flight or the 7/7 bus and tube would disagree

Because that's how most trips on public transportation end up, yeah.

smelly_bandit wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Because that's how most trips on public transportation end up, yeah.

That's the point mongo

9/11 and 7/7 established that nowhere is safe from the Muslim

So when a bus full of people sees a Muslim with massive backpack getting on I don't think the first thought is "oh he is going camping in London"

eddie wrote:HF you're not even black   

Raggamuffin wrote:So there's a photo of a smiling lady sitting behind a black man, which is supposed to show how tolerant she is? The two ladies at the front are not kicking up a fuss about a black man sitting behind them, so they're to be commended as well?

What a silly story, and an even sillier photograph.

What is that blue thing the lady on the left has round her neck?

heavenly father wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:So there's a photo of a smiling lady sitting behind a black man, which is supposed to show how tolerant she is? The two ladies at the front are not kicking up a fuss about a black man sitting behind them, so they're to be commended as well?

What a silly story, and an even sillier photograph.

What is that blue thing the lady on the left has round her neck?

it's a battery operated fan, I noticed no one is sitting next to the black man...  

Raggamuffin wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

it's a battery operated fan, I noticed no one is sitting next to the black man...  

Ah - cheers.

I think the two ladies at the front are related, so they're sitting together. The lady behind the black man is sitting next to a small dark child but doesn't appear to be with him - she has ear phones in.

Actually, she's probably annoying to sit next to if she has the volume turned up.   

heavenly father wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ah - cheers.

I think the two ladies at the front are related, so they're sitting together. The lady behind the black man is sitting next to a small dark child but doesn't appear to be with him - she has ear phones in.

Actually, she's probably annoying to sit next to if she has the volume turned up.   

it is annoying when you can part hear someones music...  

Raggamuffin wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

it is annoying when you can part hear someones music...  

Yes, it just sounds like a tinny racket.

heavenly father wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Yes, it just sounds like a tinny racket.

you cannot stop yourself trying to work out what the song actually is though..lol

Raggamuffin wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

it is annoying when you can part hear someones music...  

Yes, it just sounds like a tinny racket.

PhilDidge wrote:To take your stupidity one step further smelly, how could anyone know these 4 dressed in western clothing were terrorists let alone Muslims?

smelly_bandit wrote:

PhilDidge wrote:To take your stupidity one step further smelly, how could anyone know these 4 dressed in western clothing were terrorists let alone Muslims?

they couldn't

but now any Asian with a backpack will be easily identifiable

cause and effect  

PhilDidge wrote:

smelly_bandit wrote:

they couldn't

but now any Asian with a backpack will be easily identifiable

cause and effect  

There you have it, so now Asians are stereotyped because one of the bombers here is of African ethnicity.

DOH

You come out with so much crap it is painful to read it is so embarrassing, as daily many people travel on transport and I do not see people get off just because an Asian has a bag over their shoulder. It is people like you that try to instill such fear of others by fallacy associations

heavenly father wrote:he was over heared while try his coat on saying "does my bomb look bit in this"...lol