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(You may wish to print out these questions for quick reference for when you go to write your paper)

Students: please read all of the following questions. Think about what is being asked in each question. Then formulate in your mind what your answers to those questions would be.

ER/SR Evaluate the significance of how Elliott used this exercise to teach the meaning of brotherhood and moral/ethical reasoning for overcoming stereotypes and relating to people who are different.

CT/TR Discuss your overall reaction to “A Class Divided.” Respond to this thinking routine:

Before viewing “A Class Divided” I Used to Think . . .

After viewing “But Now I think . . . “

This change of mind is because? . . .

SD Have you ever personally experienced discrimination? If so, what were the circumstances? How did you cope with stress?

SR If not, what will you do in the future when you see or experience discrimination in action?

ER/SR Notice about how quickly the children fell into their assigned roles. What does this say about the ease of learning to become prejudice?

CT/ER Participants in this exercise are only exposed to discrimination for a relatively short amount of time. Relate their attitudes and behavior after just a short amount of time to that of minority group members in our society who are exposed to a lifetime of discrimination.

CT/ER Select a marginalized, disenfranchised or minority group of people and identify the parallels between the comments and actions made by the brown eyed children on the first day and the comments and actions of the marginalized, disenfranchised or minority group you selected.

Jane Elliot in her famous exercise that people practice based on the eye colour and skin colour to treat others differently. She wanted to prove that how difficult it would be for someone to be in a place where everyone ill-treat them and bully them in order to show the world that racism hurts. It was a time that blue eyed people were promoting that they were the superior race both physically and intellectually but she wanted to prove otherwise. So she chose people and made them sit according to their eye colour such as blue, brown. She deliberately allowed others to bully the blue eyed people and made them cry and frustrated. She did it to make the world understand how hard it is to be racially abused and bullied.

Today this video or the exercise itself has a lot of implications as the world has become a village where people from different races and ethnicities live together in harmony. We also witness occasional disturbances in terms of racism but there is also an institutionalized racism that is practised by the white patriots who run the governments in some countries. Equality is the only word that should govern not just humanity but the entire earth and its creations.

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1. Th actions from an ethical perspective were not fair as they would impact psyche of children who were at a young an impressionable age, such habits and actions and their consequent affects are generally internalized for the long run.

2. One of the main privileges that was taken away was going an drinking from the water fountain, and mingling with the apparent superior crowd. They were asked to sit further behind in the classroom setting than in the front.

3. Blue eyed children were given all those privileges that the brown eyes children were denied of, and they ere given added benefits of extra food, extra time for recess and more play time.

4. the Blue eyed pupils boasted regarding their marks and grades with respect to the assessments that were given to them on which they faired better and hence showed their apparent intellectual superiority.

5. Prejudice is not based on evidence, it is created on the basis of an isolated factor, which is sadly generalized and superimposed upon an entire population of the given sect.

6. One of the most common prejudice can be seen amongst the various religious groups, especially against those of the islamic faith.

7. It showed them the reason for Martin Luther Kings sad demise and the reason for his initial struggle.

8. Pupils though that prejudices happens if someone comes along and tells them they have more rights than someones due to the virtue of a certain quality.

9. Prejudice can be created easily, as it spreads like wildfire and on the basis of word of mouth, which goes on to be ingrained in to people minds especially if they are not at a disposition. But, to break a prejudice, paradoxically, requires empirical observation and encounters which is seldom possible, and people are generally satisfied with the social pedestal they have been bestowed which gives them a sense of entitlement they'd rather not let go. It is easier to be ignorant.