Southern Methodist University is taking an unusually direct approach to combat racial stereotypes: It’s asking people on its campus to own up to them.
In an internal survey the university poses questions, many of which indulge racial stereotypes, about different ethnicities, and asks participants to indicate whether they would want the questions answered. Among the questions: “Why are black people so loud?” “Do Asians really eat dogs?” “What is the difference between white trash and white people?”….