Janie, thanks for posting a link to that article.

One of the points that the article makes was that far fewer White parents than Black parents talk about race with their young children.

To expand on this point, many of the posters on racialicious.com are first generation racially mixed (Black/White; Korean/Black; Chinese/White etc.) A recent recent essay on that blog was about a segment of the television show "Jon & Kate Plus Eight in which Jon (who is Korean/White) and Kate (who is White) have twin girls and sextaplets). Repeatedly, many mixed race posters to that essay indicated that when they were children, their parents had not talked to them about race.

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/09/18/jon-and-kate-plus-race/#comments
"Jon & Kate Plus Race" By Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem

Here are excerpts of some of the readers' comments about whether their parents talked about race -

"...Growing up in a biracial household,I noticed that some parents stay off the issue of the kids being biracial until kids are older, some parents do it when they are young as 3 or 5, it depends on the parentI myself didn't hear people telling I wasn't XYZ till I was in my teens"...
-GüeraLola

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..."coming from a mixed race family that never talked about race (mind you my parents never filled my head with racial stereotypes, they just never talked about race), sometimes kids find a way to muddle through on their own".
-Thea Lim

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"...as the parent of bi-racial children growing up in NYC- we never really discussed the intricacies of their racial/cutural make-up…they never asked and quite frankly-I don't think they thought of themselves as being different given the multi-racial/cultural makeup of both my husband's and my own family and living in NYC.

Since moving to AZ, they've been asked and regretfully we've had to hold a crash course in multi-racial/cultural social morays. It kind of felt like Black history month or Latin food night at our house…although it certainly wasn't as simple or as trivial as that.
-t. allen-mercado

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In contrast to those commentors, one poster wrote that "My mom did a good job educating me about my ethnic heritage. She drew a pie chart on a paper plate for me and explained where my grandparents came from and showed those places to me on a globe"...
-Jennifer dG

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Also, if I correctly understood that Newsweek article, the authors indicated that children feel their group (race) was superior to all other races. I don't think that's true for most children of color.

For example, a number of the Asian posters on Racialicious have   commented on several essays I've read-including this one-that when they were children, they wished that they were White. See this comment from a reader of that "Jon & Kate Plus Race" essay:

"Is it bad that i liked that the kids [on that television show] all wanted to be asian? I guess when i was growing up all the asian kids ever wanted to be was white and were often ashamed of their heritage. It just thought it was refreshing to see the opposite if even for a little while."
-ty

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I'm not doing the essay/comments any justice with these excerpts. I found the essay and all of the comments to be a very interesting read.