Kellee and Byron

Kellee and Byron are two people with diverse opinions and backgrounds who rarely agree on politics, but get along really well. This is a forum for the two of us to talk and debate and see what others think about stuff that we feel like talking about in a civilized way.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dailymotion - Social reality or Mind control - a Tech &Science video - StumbleUpon

Dailymotion - Social reality or Mind control - a Tech &Science video - StumbleUpon

This is an interesting video about discrimination. I would like to see what Kellee thinks before I give my commentary on this experiment. Also any of our readers thoughts are welcome as well. Did you think this was cruel to the kids? Was it necessary to teach them about discrimination in this way.? Was it more effective? How would you feel if you were in this class? As Kellee and I both have blue eyes, if you are brown eyed, tell us what you think.
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  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM

    First of all, I don't think our eye color has anything to do with it and I don't think that will change how we feel about the experiment because the eye color "meanings" were completely arbitrary. In fact, it would have made more sense to make it so that brown eyed children were "superior" because brown eyes are more common than blue and that more closely follows the racism parallel that she was trying to make (majority discrimination against the minority). That being said, I think it might have been cruel, because at such a young age, children probably don't understand the nuances of the point she was trying to make and it could have changed their relationships forever, for all we know. But I think that it does say something powerful about human nature. Why are people so quick to turn against each other for something so simple? It's like all some people need is permission...

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  2. ByronMay 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    Well I agree with your comment on the eye color, but it can also make sense for the blue eyes to be better if you take the Nazi idea where their were fewer blue eyed people but that was a characteristic of the "master race". I agree that it was cruel, and it does show that people just need permission to feel superior. However this experiment works on the young who aren't quite molded. Imagine if they had continued to learn that all their life. The Blue Eyes would truly believe that they were better. That is how people become racists and sexists and other "ists". They learn it from their environment, and how they were taught growing up. That means that any change has to come from us. We have to realize that we are not inherently better than others, and as such our children will learn from us.

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