Blog 6
14 years ago
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Blog #4
I feel that the videos we watched on Racism were very eye opening. Racism is a very controversial topic in which everyone has their own opinions on it. The one video that really stuck out to me was, A Class Divided. This video showed the real power behind racism an discrimination. Dividing young children by the color of their eyes and watching them completely change their attitudes and feelings towards one another was incredible. Seeing the kids that were good friends 20 minutes before the experiment becoming enemies shows the true power of discrimination. It only takes a little experiment like that to show what racism really does to people. Just because someone is a different ethnicity or color does not make them any different. They are still human and deserve to be treated that way. This video expressed to both an older generation as well as a younger one on the importance and seriousness of talking about racism and showing how everyone is truly equal. Between the novels we have read and the videos we watched, they all have to do with discriminating against someone due to ethnicity or color. They were all focused on the same topic, Racism. However they all had a different story or situation with racism. In A Class Divided, they discriminated using eye color to show people how racism/discrimination worked. I was brought up in a family where Racism was considered very wrong and with the idea that everyone is equal. This video really helped me understand the seriousness of this controversial topic and how it truly hurts someone emotionally. I have always known racism to be very wrong and after watching this video my feelings are still the same.
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I thought that her experiment with the kids and the eye color was very good but it wasn't very eye opening to me. Kids are very impressionable so it shouldnt be a surprise that if your teacher tells you when your 8 years old that people with brown eyes or blue eyes are better that they're going to take that to heart because they dont know better. But I agree that it is a good way to instill the idea in kids head's that discrimination is bad. I don't really think that her experiment with the adults was successful at all though. She was just a grumpy old woman picking on people and people knew what she was trying to do because their not as dumb as she tried to make them out to be. I think her experiment with adults is a waste of time because 99% of the time people arent going to change there ways when people go about it the way she did.
ReplyDeleteI also feel that the experiment with the adults was a waste of time. They are already set in their ways and arent going to change their opions now. I thinks it's a good experiment but needs to be done with the right age group. But it does show that discrimination can be based on anything, not just race.
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