After viewing the film, go to discuss the following questions. Write NO LESS THAN 450 words. (2.5-pt for each question) 1. If you had been in the minority group created by the exercise, what would you have done? What would the logical consequences of such an action have been? Would they be the same for minority group members who react that way in today’s society? Reactions to discrimination and stereotyping would have been the same as the children that were receiving the discrimination. However, the consequences, allowed the children to experience both sides of discrimination as the receiver and the giver; which appeared to change their way of thinking into adulthood. The experience influence the way they treat others that was from other ethnic groups and the teaching their children on how to treat others. Fourteen years later, the town still remain the same even thou Ms. Jameson had integrated the course into the school curriculum. In today’s society, discrimination and stereotyping still exist, however, it is not as obvious as it was then. Society have legalize gay marriages, but it does not stop people emotions in the way they react to gay rights. 2. Participants in this exercise are exposed to discrimination for a short time; relate …show more content…
The children who were being discriminated against took five minutes to complete the flash card; however, the superior group completed the flash cards within two minutes because of the stereotyping. Because of the statement, brown eyed people could not learn brought about insecurities.... Think of a child who had to endure it thru out their elementary years of schooling; they would have learning disabilities, personality conflicts, self-esteem would be low into adulthood. A parallels form today’s society to the attitudes and behaviors of the participants in the exercise is the gay rights and blacks being killed by police in the news. (Mother,
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered (in April 1968,) Jane Elliott’s third grade students were confused and upset. Growing up in a small, all-white town, they were not exposed to racism, and did not understand the meaning of it. Therefore, Jane Elliot decided to show her class what discrimination feels like. She informed the class that they were going to change the way things were done. The students were then divided by eye colour-blue eyes and brown eyes. The blue-eyed children were praised, and told that they were smarter, nicer, and better than the brown-eyed children in every way. Throughout the day, they were given special privileges that the brown-eyed children did not receive. Those privileges included extra recess time, access to the jungle gym, a second helping of food at lunch, sitting at the front of the classroom, and being allowed to participate in class discussions. In contrast, the brown-eyed children were forced to wear brown collars around their necks. They sat at the back of the classroom, and their behaviour and classroom performance was constantly criticized by the teacher. The students from the superior group (even those who were usually sweet and tolerant) became mean, and began to discriminate against the inferior group. The students from the inferior group would struggle with class assignments, and perform poorly on tests. On the second day of the experiment, the roles were reversed, making the brown-eyed children superior to the blue-eyed children. The results were similar, but the brown-eyed students didn’t treat their blue-eyed classmates quite as bad as they had treated them. When the exercise ended, the students hugged and cried with each other. Jane Elliott once said: "After you do this exercise, when the debriefing starts, when the pain is over and they're all back together, you find out how society could be if we really believed all this stuff that we
In relation to the “Implicit association test, which measures unconscious bias,” Myers acknowledges that “Seventy percent of white people taking that test prefer white.” Not only do white people prefer someone of their race, but “Fifty percent of black people taking that test prefer white” as well. Informing us of the results from the IAT (Implicit Association Test) helps showcase that there is a clear bias among us that “we’ve been schooled in.” Myers provides this data in order to further justify that we all play a role in the “prejudices that fuel those kinds of tragic incidents” that happened to the black men mentioned in the previous paragraph. Conversely with a grandiose tone, the diversity advocate explains that the problem isn’t so much that “we see color” its “what we do when we see the color.” Verna Myers bringing this issue to light is effective in the sense that it makes her audience re-evaluate their standpoint within these specific instances. Are their prejudices a part of the problem?” Yes. Verna Myers is well aware that “we are not shooting people down in the street” nonetheless, we still contribute to the issue until we are willing to “look within and being to change
After watching the documentary, “A Class Divided,” I was very impressed by the lesson that the teacher was performing with her students. Discrimination is an issue that has been around for a long time dating back to slavery and probably before that. Over time, society has become more welcoming but discrimination still exists today and may never completely go away. By doing this exercise with her students, the teacher is changing the world. If a group of ten people went through this exercise, then they learn that everyone is the same and they stop discriminating based on race. Those ten people later go on and tell their children, friends, and family about this exercise and they may also have a change of heart. That number now changes from ten to twenty to thirty. In the documentary, the teacher mentioned that this exercise is hurtful to some people and should not be performed on everyone because of controversial issues and how it can be emotionally traumatizing for some people. A small group still does so much for a society to change and evolve. The brown eye, blue eye method has a large impact and I wish more people knew of it
Discrimination has always been prominent in mainstream society. Judgments are quickly formed based on one’s race, class, or gender. The idea that an individual’s self-worth is measured by their ethnicity or sexual preference has impacted the lives of many Americans. During the early colonial period, a social hierarchy was established with white landowners at the top and African-American slaves at the bottom. As equality movements have transpired, victims of discrimination have varied. In the late 1980’s when Paris is Burning was filmed, gay rights were still controversial in society. The lack of acceptance in conventional society created hardships in the lives of transgender women and gay men.
The segregation and discrimination of any person or race is unfair and should not be permitted or accepted. Both of these stories talk about the problems that segregation causes, and are written to prove that it is a horrible thing to segregate against someone, and that discrimination causes more problems than it helps anything. Both of these stories attempt to change society’s views of discrimination to that of their Author’s own. Both of these books hopefully made a positive effect on society, as they were meant to, and helped people realize that it is never okay to treat people differently because society wants them to.
Each group of students can identify a particular issue that they find interesting, such as new type discrimination, evolving “genoism”, ethics and morality of society, stereotypes, inequity between the two brothers and also consider the effects of discrimination on the characters. Students can present their chosen issues through role plays or an oral presentation to their peers.
The first topic covered will be the plot which was mostly accurate despite the shortened aspects of the film. The
The exercise showed how a child that never had any racism towards them in the exercise they turned against their friends because of the color of their eyes. The children for those two days got the chance to experience both sides of discrimination. The children once day felt segregated and inferior to the children that were placed in the group with more privilege. Then the next day, the children that were placed in the privileged group were in the segregated group. The theory is if you can teach a child how to discriminate against a person that you can just as easily teach them how not to.
During the discussion, the questions from my screening were, "What causes the major turning points in the movie come?", "What topics does this movie address, how?", and "Do you feel that the villain represents the evil appropriately?". The first question sparked a major discussion as it was debated back and forth
In this book, it shows examples of racial strife including segregation, physical attacks and emotional abuse. The Logan family was treated indescribably. The book starts showing racial strife when the children of the black family have to go to a different school than the white children for that very reason. This book shows the way racism started in the 1930’s and how much it’s changed compared to today.
For many year humans have been trying to fight against discrimination in their communities, but it's an uphill battle that doesn’t seem like it’s been fully wiped out yet in our society. Discrimination and Prejudice has been a key issue that has affected many people around the world. In the movie that we saw in class, “My Cousin Vinny” (1992) it focused on these key issues of prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes and even eye witness testimonies. In the movie it focuses on these key issues while bringing a little humor to the viewers. In this paper I will be going into more detail of how this movie really brought to light these key issues.
In society today, everyone is likely to experience some form of discrimination or prejudice. On April 15, 1968, a teacher in Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment on her third grade class. The experiment conducted allowed students to experience first hand the concept of discrimination. The inspiration for this experiment followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and was documented as a movie titled, “A Class Divided”. It served as an eye opener for many individuals into the world of racism and discrimination.
"A Class Divided" is a very profound film. In the film, a third grade teacher Jane Elliot decided to show the kids a lesson about discrimination, and she made it in an unusual way. Elliott divided her class according to eye color. At first day, she told that students with blue eyes were smarter than students with brown eyes; they were afforded extra time at recess and other privileges. The next day she switched places, and she told that brown eyed people were smarter than blue eyed people. She carried out the same experiment with adults. She made blue-eyed people feel unintelligent in relation to the brown-eyed people by pointing that how blue eyed forgot things quickly, and did not pay as much attention as brown eyed people. After watching
He mentions that he witnesses “only children of color” encounter situations such as being “stopped and frisked” or “not hailing a taxi when the subway was down.” In other words, the prolonged existence of social and financial gaps between people of color and whites has created unfair educational disadvantages for
Baker, Jean M. How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community. New York: Harrington Park, 2002. Print.