Now that we're on felines I have to interject. And object. Why assume animals' response to African Americans (or other darker-skinned folk) will be spontaneously negative?
I was at a cat show a couple of weeks ago talking with a breeder who was showing a couple of gorgeous Siamese kittens. Siamese can be very people-oriented, and these certainly were. An African-American man walked by, and the older kitten got quite excited. The breeder confided to me, "They've never seen a Black before." The kitten's response was alert, eager, and very interested. A pronounced magnification of his response to me, which was alert interest but without the physical exuberance. I was almost jealous. ;) Charlotte >Discrepant stimuli generate arousal. Arousal can be viewed as fearful. >Fearful behavior can be vectored toward aggression. Blacks are discrepant >because most people the dogs see are white. In a black culture the dogs >would display racial profiling against whites. > >OR: > >The lion may not have liked blacks because backs may have developed an odor >that lions don't like. Whites have been removed from the plans of Africa >and would have lost the protective skunk like odor. In other words people >are skunks but don't know it. Since the lion can not escape it wants to >attack this irritating odor source. > -- =============================================== Charlotte F. Manly, Ph.D. Psychological & Brain Sciences Assistant Professor 317 Life Sciences Bldg ph: (502) 852-8162 University of Louisville fax: (502) 852-8904 Louisville, KY 40292 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/psychology/ http://www.louisville.edu/~cfmanl01 USE 40208 ZIP CODE FOR FEDEX --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
