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Topic started on 10-3-2010 @ 04:41 PM by Kandinsky

An experiment that changed the lives of all involved



Jane Elliot was a teacher who showed her Grade School kids that those with blue eyes were better than those with brown eyes. The kids with brown eyes lost playground privileges and weren't allowed to look at the blue-eyed kids. In classes they were prohibited from talking. She made the brown-eyed kids wear collars to identify them.



Watch the video and see what takes place....

Tuesday Morning



Skip to 1 minute 30 seconds...


Wednesday Morning





Class Reunion and a cool result...





Jane had tried to introduce her students to the idea of racial equality. She had even appointed Martin Luther King as the class's 'Hero of the Month', but she struggled to explain what racism was really like to the all-white class. They seemed keen to learn, but had never seen a black person in real life. After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jane tried a more direct exercise to bring the truth home about racial discrimination. It was an exercise which was to change her life.
Jane Elliot

Elliot wanted to challenge racism in particular and prejudice in general. Her efforts have made a difference to a lot of people.


reply posted on 10-3-2010 @ 06:22 PM by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by dampnickers


Why ?
Manbird12000 said it. Because we're all to up tight. We want to have our freedom and go through lengts to protect or expand it. Only if somebody else does the same and crosses the same path they do and vice verse they feel the need to protect and are intolerant to the freedom of others.

Just my 2 cents on it >

At Op Interesting read. Thank you.

[edit on 10-3-2010 by Sinter Klaas]


reply posted on 10-3-2010 @ 06:27 PM by lizziejayne
reply to post by manbird12000


A teacher in the UK tried something similar quite recently - although seemingly more for the benefit of exploring emotional responses rather than culturing in-group and out-group dynamics:



She told the shocked youngsters those who were born in January, February and March had lower IQs than other children, 'due to lack of sunlight in their mother's womb', and that they had to put yellow hats on and be sent to the library.


Unfortunately, the exercise took a turn for the worse:


One angry parent, who has lodged an official complaint about the project, told how the 'barbaric' role play left children crying their eyes out in class.


Source: Daily Mail

[edit on 10/3/10 by lizziejayne]



reply posted on 10-3-2010 @ 06:27 PM by davidmann
reply to post by Kandinsky

I think I get it. After the jews in control handed out a month to every race, as an assimilative move, and tagged three holidays specifically to aidsoax™, they now want to make racial designations against the law.

Have you seen how well their meddling with circumcision and the law, in Sweden, has panned out? Not so well. In fact the thread on Malmo and not wanting jews in control there, was pulled, pulled on a conspiracy site.


reply posted on 11-3-2010 @ 12:42 AM by Kandinsky
reply to post by tothetenthpower


Wasn't this in the 80's or something?


No


It was truly appaling that they did this to them, but what they sometimes don't mention is that after I believe it was 6 weeks, they reversed the roles of the children.


It wasn't appalling....watch the videos!


Don't get me wrong however, this was a HORRIBLE IDEA. The children subjected to this sort of study would have problems in their adult lives. You are ingraining a behaviour in them.


The children became adults with less prejudice than their peers and admire Jane Elliot to this day. Her experiment has been repeated in many contexts since as a cognitive approach to minimising prejudice. It's in the video called 'reuinion.'


reply posted on 11-3-2010 @ 01:28 AM by Kandinsky
reply to post by EminenceofAeon
Thanks for the positive comment. The experiment has been used to challenge dumb prejudice successfully many times. At the conclusion...when the kids are reunited in equality, it always puts a huge smile on my face. That the adults remain unprejudiced 20 years later is testament that humans don't NEED to be so prejudiced.

If prejudice gets challenged in this way and early...it shows we can beat it.

Have a good day
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