The link below goes to a YouTube video of "Jane Elliot's A Class Divided." I had seen this video in a previous class and found it very intriguing. In this video, which is part one, Jane Elliot talks to her class about discrimination and gets her students opinion on people of different races, one says "look at that, dumb people" referring to black people. Then she divides her class up into the blue-eyed people and the brown-eyed people and favors the blue-eyed people. This video is eye-opening and shows what can happen when a group of people are told one race (or eye-color) is better than another, especially with children and how influenced they can be. I definitely thinks it relates to class with all our discussions on race and privilege issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjDxAwfXV0
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It is interesting that you and Christina both unkowingly put the exact same video up here. Obviously it made a big impact on both of you. I watched the video and was stunned how quickly the little kids' attitudes changed. It was quite awful how their actions and thoughts took on their newly assigned roles.
ReplyDeleteI am shocked that you have this video too. This video is really eye opening because even young chilren really get into this such behavior over eye color. This is a good video to show to people and it was very weird how me and you have the same video but it shows that it was very insightful
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