# Is teaching your daughter racism?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 24, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-teaching-your-daughter-racism/144776 "2002-12-24T22:05:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-teaching-your-daughter-racism/144776/10 "2002-12-24T23:37:13Z")

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**vbd:** _Why is a White grandfather prefering his grandchild to look like him a racist?_

What’s racist is to automatically assume that your grandchildren’s skin color is what determines whether they “look like you”. Your grandchildren can still look like you in lots of ways no matter what the color of their skin is: if the skin color is all that matters to you, you’re being racist.

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