Culture Poisons Brain With Racism, Study Finds

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer

Date: 02 October 2011 Time: 02:47 PM ET

For years, social scientists have uncovered the unsettling truth that no matter how egalitarian a person purports to be, their unconscious mind holds some racist, sexist or ageist thoughts.

But a new study finds that this may say less about the person and more about the culture that surrounds him or her.