Beliefs About Race
Joseph McNair (1998)
Read each statement thoughtfully, and register the strength of your feeling about each item as it pertains to your beliefs. If you don't know what some of the words mean, look them up. Make sure you understand what you are agree or disagreeing with. This survey is for discussion purposes only. Copyright © 1996 Joseph D. McNair.
| Name | Ethnicity |
| Gender: Male Female | Nationality |
| Age: 20 and under 20-3030-40 Over 40 | Occupation |
Check the appropriate box for each statement that corresponds to your attitude toward that particular statement.
SA-Strongly Agree, A-Agree, U-Uncertain, D-Disagree, SD-Strongly Disagree
1. One's racial identity can be accurately determined by observable characteristics including skin color, skull, nose and eye shape, size and weight of physical frame and certain kinds of behavior.
SA A U D SD
2. Racial purity is a good thing; miscegenation (race-mixing) is bad.
SA A U D SD
3. White people are the most oppressive and exploitative of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
4. The mestizo (White and Red) is more refined in thinking and behavior than the mulatto (White and Black).
SA A U D SD
5. Yellow people are the most innately exotic of the races of man and the most difficult to understand.
SA A U D SD
6. Some racial groups are superior to other racial groups in fertility and sexual capacity.
SA A U D SD
7. Red people are the most innately savage of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
8. Human beings are born with a preference for their own kind.
SA A U D SD
9. Because of cranial shape and brain size, Black people are less intelligent than white people.
SA A U D SD
10. Brown people because of the variety of their racial strains i.e., white, black, red, are passionate, violent and unpredictable.
SA A U D SD
11. In matters of technology, White people are more innately knowledgeable than any other race.
SA A U D SD
12. Some racial groups are more evolved than others.
SA A U D SD
13. Yellow people have an innate tendency toward manufacture and technology.
SA A U D SD
14. Some racial groups are superior to other racial groups in musical talents and bodily-kinesthetic abilities.
SA A U D SD
15. Red people are innately the most "other worldly" of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
16. Brown people because of the variety of their racial strains are more inclined to be a part of revolutions, coup d' etats or social upheaval.
SA A U D SD
17. In matters of sexuality, Black people are more knowledgeable than any other race.
SA A U D SD
18. Some racial groups are genetically programmed to abuse power, privilege or status if they have or gain advantage over other racial groups.
SA A U D SD
19. White people are the least physically gifted of all the races of man.
SA A U D SD
20. Some racial groups are undeserving of certain societal privileges, and the social status and symbols associated with those privileges because of their primitiveness and/or inferiority.
SA A U D SD
21. Because of cranial shape and brain size, Yellow people are more intelligent than any of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
22. Some racial groups are superior to other racial groups in economic acumen (wisdom).
SA A U D SD
23. Red people are the most innately noble of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
24. Races, like families, have certain physical, physiological, mental and temperamental traits.
SA A U D SD
25. Black people have an innate tendency toward criminality.
SA A U D SD
26. One's racial identity can be accurately determined by blood type or genetically determined traits found in the blood.
SA A U D SD
27. White people are the most morally bankrupt of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
28. Skin color, hair texture, nose and eye shape and lip thickness are caused by the same genes.
SA A U D SD
29. One must have truly "different" notions about sex to be sexually attracted to a member of the Yellow race.
SA A U D SD
30. Even if they are blond haired and blue-eyed, Hispanics because of their mixed Black and/or Red ancestry can never be true white people.
SA A U D SD
31. Red people as a race have an innate weakness for alcohol.
SA A U D SD
32. The only "true" white people originated on the European continent, or trace their ancestry to Great Britain, Finland, Denmark and Sweden. To be white means to be free of Black, Yellow or Red ancestry.
SA A U D SD
33. Black people as a race are gifted athletes and entertainers.
SA A U D SD
34. My child/children is/are free to choose who they wish to marry and spend their lives with, but if the choice were mine, I would prefer that they marry within their racial group.
SA A U D SD
35. Brown people are less abhorrent than Black people but are more abhorrent than Red or Yellow people.
SA A U D SD
36. Dark-skinned people e.g., Africans, Aborigines, Dravidians etc., probably share common ancestry or may have originated in the same geographical area.
37. Yellow people are the most innately spiritual of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
38. People with the epicanthic fold or "slanted" eyes probably have some Asian or Mongoloid ancestry.
SA A U D SD
39. Red people are the closest to nature of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
40. Skin color, hair texture, nose and eye shape and lip thickness are immutable indicators of race.
SA A U D SD
41. Black people are the most morally degenerate of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
42. The factors that determine skin color, nose shape, height, weight, body build and skull form are same ones that determine the majority of human behavior.
SA A U D SD
43. White men think they can have any woman they see regardless of their color or creed.
SA A U D SD
44. The majority of human behavior is innate, not learned.
SA A U D SD
45. Some racial groups are superior to other racial groups in intelligence and the production of intellectual products.
SA A U D SD
46. Yellow people of all the races of man are more inclined to intrigue and covert activity.
SA A U D SD
47. Some racial groups are truly strange or alien as compared to others. They are in fact inimical to other human beings.
SA A U D SD
48. Red people of all the races of man are the most "unfit" for life in the technologically advanced information era.
SA A U D SD
49. Some racial groups are entitled to societal privileges, and the social status and symbols associated with those privileges because of their superiority.
SA A U D SD
50. Black people are sexually promiscuous, with large or capacious genitals.
SA A U D SD
51. I am adamantly opposed to my child or children marrying outside of my racial group.
SA A U D SD
52. White women are secretly attracted to Black men particularly as sexual partners.
SA A U D SD
53. Skin color alone is a reliable determinant of behavior.
SA A U D SD
54. Yellow people as a race are disproportionately more prejudiced than any other of the races of man.
SA A U D SD
55. Increased amounts of melanin in the skin impacts the cognitive (thinking) processes in an inverse relationship. The more the melanin, the more sluggish the cognitive processes.
SA A U D SD
56. Races e.g., Negroid, Mongoloid, Caucasoid are scientifically valid, natural divisions or groupings of human beings below the species level.
SA A U D SD
57. Some racial groups seek to take away power, privilege and status from other racial groups.
SA A U D SD
58. Some racial groups are superior to other racial groups in moral and/or spiritual development.
SA A U D SD
59. Black men because of some weird attraction of opposites prefer white women as girlfriends, wives and sexual partners.
SA A U D SD
60. Racial pride accounts for healthy self-esteem, group identity, group solidarity and group cohesion.
SA A U D SD