Social Behavior
1. What did Jane Elliott say about people being able to take off their collars or color?
Jane Elliott uses the collar/eye color exercise to help the student realize that we shouldn’t discriminate even if they have a different color skin or different color of anything. The students didn’t like how they were treated because they had a different eye color. The first day, Mrs. Elliott said that blue eyed people were better than brown eyes then the next day it was vice versa. Kids were angry humiliated because they would make fun of others just because they were different. She helped the kids realize that discrimination is bad. No one liked to be fun of, picked on, or teased just because they were different.
This exercise even effected their grades, because they felt so out of place it. With them throwing away the collars, they through away discrimination. Jane Elliott’s exercise opened up those kids eyes on how discrimination is wrong. People shouldn’t be treated wrong because they were born with different features.
2. Who created racism?
I believe that people created racism. I don’t think it was one specific person, I think it was all people in general. People who are racist because they look at someone and just because they look different they should be picked on or left out. They don’t take them serious, they don’t allow them to do the same things they do, but they don’t realize that it hurts. What if they were treated just like because they were different?
3. Describe what relevance Jane Elliott’s study has in today’s society. Has it changed much from Jane Elliott’s original study with her third graders?
From observing Jane’s first video with her third graders to her class with the corrections officers. She changed those peoples way of thinking towards others, by simply putting superior people in the lesser shoes. By putting people in those situations she opened eyes and ways of thinking towards others. It was like a guide to partially get rid of
Jane Elliott uses the collar/eye color exercise to help the student realize that we shouldn’t discriminate even if they have a different color skin or different color of anything. The students didn’t like how they were treated because they had a different eye color. The first day, Mrs. Elliott said that blue eyed people were better than brown eyes then the next day it was vice versa. Kids were angry humiliated because they would make fun of others just because they were different. She helped the kids realize that discrimination is bad. No one liked to be fun of, picked on, or teased just because they were different.
This exercise even effected their grades, because they felt so out of place it. With them throwing away the collars, they through away discrimination. Jane Elliott’s exercise opened up those kids eyes on how discrimination is wrong. People shouldn’t be treated wrong because they were born with different features.
2. Who created racism?
I believe that people created racism. I don’t think it was one specific person, I think it was all people in general. People who are racist because they look at someone and just because they look different they should be picked on or left out. They don’t take them serious, they don’t allow them to do the same things they do, but they don’t realize that it hurts. What if they were treated just like because they were different?
3. Describe what relevance Jane Elliott’s study has in today’s society. Has it changed much from Jane Elliott’s original study with her third graders?
From observing Jane’s first video with her third graders to her class with the corrections officers. She changed those peoples way of thinking towards others, by simply putting superior people in the lesser shoes. By putting people in those situations she opened eyes and ways of thinking towards others. It was like a guide to partially get rid of