“Social forces create the 'feeling' or 'decision' to change your behavior in some way and to be very careful to control the formality of future meetings you attend you are invited” (Pearson 43). The authors explain how this occurred when a person was invited to a faculty barbecue. The person attended the barbecue wearing casual clothes, T-shirt, shorts and sandals, but the rest of the faculty wore formal clothes. The person felt a sense of embarrassment. A person can be very polite to a different person of another race. A group may then mock the person for treating them equally with respect to their race. So the person who treated the other race with respect will discriminate against the race because he felt a sense of embarrassment towards his own race and wants to be accepted by his own race. Solving racism with social forces means respecting all races because no one is superior or better than another race. The proximity principle can also cause racism. The proximity principle is defined as the way in which people are influenced by social structure through their immediate social environments. “The proximity principle states that we often feel the effects of society through interpersonal interaction and communication with the people around us” (House 1992). If a child sees their parents being racist towards a different race, then they will do the same because they will