One-fourth of college students say racism is no longer a problem in the U.S., the most in the 25-year history of polling by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Just 24.7 percent of incoming 2014 freshmen said they think racial discrimination is a thing of the past, UCLA’s survey of 153,015 students showed. When the question was first posed in 1990, the rate was 18 percent.
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Freshmen today are more likely to believe they have a better ability to see the world from someone else’s perspective than in the past, Eagan noted. That perception of empathy, he said, “may be subsequently influencing that discrimination is still a very real issue.”
