Blue Eyed, Brown Eye By Jane Elliot

Essay - ‘Blue eyed, Brown eyed’

The act in which one treats one another different purely on the basis of their; eye colour, skin colour, nationality or the nationality of their guardian or ancestors is known solely as ‘discrimination’. Jane Elliot, exposed to the harsh waves of discrimination, tries to change the world through her methods.

Discrimination once practiced upon an individual, can scar or change a person for the remainder of his or her life. It can also change ones views on discrimination. Jane Elliot, a white American women shunned by society on the basis of her anti-racial views towards not only African Americans but any form of racism or discrimination. Elliot’s views, that no-one should attack one another, mentally or physically on the accusation of them being different in anyway, how everyone should be treated equally and that racial discrimination should stop.

Elliot’s methods gathers a large group of participants, divides them into two groups, one group called the brown eyed group (thought they have blue eyes) and the blue eyed group (brown eyed). The blue eyed group get given all the privileges and the brown eyed group get to
Elliot’s methods further educate the participants into further realising the happenings around them, the exercise has changed most of the participants in many ways, It was a life changing