I'd be interested to know how they define it ("ideas"). My friend in the story--a profoundly, actively anti-racist person I'm still close to at 70--was well past 5 when she tried to nip my friendship with Shelley in the bud by announcing to me that she was "colored." But I doubt she had an "idea" other than "this is something my dad thinks is bad."
I’ve read that by age five children have been inculcated with ideas about race.
I'd be interested to know how they define it ("ideas"). My friend in the story--a profoundly, actively anti-racist person I'm still close to at 70--was well past 5 when she tried to nip my friendship with Shelley in the bud by announcing to me that she was "colored." But I doubt she had an "idea" other than "this is something my dad thinks is bad."