Social Behavior In Brown Eyes

Interaction between humans is a fascinating and ever changing phenomenon. From the moment we are born until the very end when we die, we interact with one another on a daily basis. Sometimes interaction occurs through internet social sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, or Instagram, through events like parties, or common places particularly stores and our jobs. However, we often overlook a blaring detail, who we are is who we choose to surround and affiliate ourselves with. We miss this details perhaps due to the fact that it happened so naturally it simply slid through our conscious thought, or maybe we are socially programmed to link ourselves to people like us. We often classify these social relationships with people like ourselves as groups.
The children, specifically the blue eyed children, were immediately able to switch their mindsets and internalize that they were “better” simply because they were part of the blue eyed group. The same was evident when the teacher, Mrs. Elliot, switch the roles the following day in favor of the brown eyes. Feist and Rosenberg define in group/out-group bias as the “tendency to show positive feelings toward people who belong to the same group as we do, and negative feelings towards those in other groups.” (Social Behavior, 532) One of the blue eyed kids thought it be a good idea to make fun of the one brown eyed kid, which ultimately led to an altercation with fists, a prime example of discrimination. The prejudice element is evident through the kids’ thoughts towards the opposite colored eye kids. For example, blue kids believed they were smarter and more superior while brown eyed kids were forgetful and inferior. This prejudice mindset did not allow for the kids to do careful observation of the opposite group. Prejudice was their thoughts and it came true through their discrimination, which turned out with cruel treatment towards one
One group that I think is very dominant here is the intercollegiate athletes. This group has many views about them. Ask some intercollegiate athlete cadets and they will describe themselves as a group of individuals that think they are better than the rest while others might say they are hardworking cadets that have to deal with a lot more compared to the rest of the cadet wing. For me, I see this group as people that have to intertwine becoming a military member with fulfilling the need to be a peak performing athlete. They have a lot that is required of them and have to have a tremendous amount of time management skills. However, I have ran into some few that believe they are entitled to not conforming to the rules and can do their own thing because they are “special”. Personally, I sometimes do not think some athlete grasp the bigger concept of how even though they might have come here to play sports, the bottom line is that they are here to serve and protect our country when its time. I think this cynical perspective is derived from the few bad apple I have run across that have made me stigmatize the rest. Perhaps, attending a practice or learning the culture by going to their games or events would open my eyes to the dirty details that I and other sometimes miss. I have a few athletes in my squad and having a one-on-one sit down could provide me the