{"id":5754,"date":"2021-08-06T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5754"},"modified":"2021-08-06T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T11:52:04","slug":"why-many-americans-cant-see-the-wealth-gap-between-white-and-black-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5754","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Americans Can\u2019t See The Wealth Gap Between White And Black America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The places where we live affect not only our\u00a0access to resources<\/a>, but also who we\u00a0meet, interact with and become friends with<\/a>. And because our neighborhoods are so segregated, our social networks are also siloed \u2014 about\u00a0three-quarters of white Americans\u00a0don\u2019t have any nonwhite friends<\/a>, according to a 2014 survey from PRRI. The nature of segregation in the U.S. means that we only end up seeingand learning about what our own groups experience, making it hard to understand the lives of people outside of our own group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This explains, in part, why Americans have such a hard time understanding just\u00a0how unequal<\/a>\u00a0our nation is, and moreover, the\u00a0racialized<\/em>\u00a0nature of that inequality<\/a>. For example, if you ask Americans about racial wealth gaps, you\u2019ll find that they severely underestimate those gaps; according to a 2019 paper from a team of psychologists, Americans think the Black-white wealth gap is\u00a040 to 80 percent smaller than it actually is<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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“it will always be hard for people to see inequality if it doesn\u2019t bring harm to their own lives.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Many Americans Can\u2019t See The Wealth Gap Between White And Black America<\/a><\/blockquote>