miércoles, 8 de septiembre de 2010

Blue/Brown eye experiment

This experiment was made by a elementary school teacher, the purpose of this experiment was because the teacher didnt know how to explain the kids what was happening with the martin luther king situation, so she decided that she would show them what racism meant, so she started to flatter the blue eyed people and to put down the brown eye people so they will feel really bad, and then she flipped the process so the brown eyed people will feel flattered and the blue people would feel put down, this way she devided the class, and then the kids started to fight because they thought they were superior to the opposite eye color, this was exactly the same as what was happening in the united states in that time. Prejudice is "An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts". and Discrimination is "Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice" both of this words have a similar meaning, but both of them have a bad connotation. In conclusion the part that i enjoyed the most of the experiment was the fact that the kids fighted just because of the eye color, not the fact that they fighted but the fact that how the teacher changed all of the way of thinking just by saying a few compliments.

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