except they weren't.. to do an 'experiment' with kids is wrong on so many levels.. ppls only takeaway on this is that it was white parents that called and were upset.. children are protected for a reason.. you can educate children pretty easily without putting them in a dangerous social 'experiment', because children are VERY impressionable in school since teachers are the authority and the children accept it because their parents tell them that.. this woman should have been fired, but she wasn't because she was a white woman championing the cause for the black side of racism.. I don't care for racism myself and think it's so stupid, but I would NEVER put young impressionable minds in a dangerous experiment like this.. and no, it is not 'dangerous' to me because brown eyed kids were considered better.. it is dangerous because it promoted the same exact problem found later in life because of ignorant ppl.. and that is what she did, just created ignorant thought processes in young minds for an experimental purpose.. some of the children probably got it, but I know that some children didn't.. why do I know this? because humans minds work that way, and they don't accept everything told or shown to them.. they turn more hateful, depressed, or bitter.. but maybe you and others think those children don't matter.. for me all children matter, so their minds shouldn't be forced into an experiment by a teacher that apparently wasn't screened well enough.. she was only lucky something worse didn't happen in the classroom
I remember participating in this in the early '70s I did not have blue eyes nor did I have brown eyes I had Hazel eyes and I am Hispanic, I can honestly say that kids did turn violent, both groups made me a pariah, and they're bad behavior didn't quit after the exercise was over. There was one little girl in my class by the name of crystal she would watch out for me after that, nobody messed with her because she had older brothers, they would watch out for me on the playground and walk me home from school, she was the only black girl and I was the only Latino, we were friends for years
@@tuetoburger I’m more surprised on a video released a year ago with only 4,000 views there are three people commenting on the same comment released 8 months ago in the same couple hours.
Maybe the class topper of that class was a brown-eyed kid, it's just more likely because brown eyed kids outnumbered the blue eyed kids. Edit:- One student asked her how she was the teacher when she herself had blue eyes, then you heard what excuse the brown-eyed kids came up with.
Our entire behavior is influenced by society. Different upbringings, created by societal standards and functions, create drastically different people; different schools and curriculum give them different views of the world, based on what version of history they are taught, which influences what kind of people become the leaders in society. Societal norms directly contribute to how a person acts in their daily life. Some people are aware of this, and use it to their advantage to shift the population into their beliefs.
@@SleepiAbyss from an evolutionary perspective, the nature of humanity is the cause of much of what has become of society. It is only because of the opportunities that the eventual safety in numbers resulted in deeper contemplation and evaluation of what could be that we ended up “progressing” (to a certain degree) to the point where we have societal norms that ought to be called into question
@@zacariasnelson5753 I suppose you're right, humans are social animals. And human gatherings, e.g. societies have been around a long while. Interesting to think about.
It should be common sense by now that making people focus on differences in a negative manner causes disharmony and increases the possibility of violence.
@@tumultuousv Nah, my government (current administration at least) would rather we not think of fighting or violence in general. Instead they'd rather we (the locals) buy more stuff, watch more entertainment media, and ignore the fact that many of the powerful families who rule my country have been doing so since our country's colonial era. It's a bit of a different situation from what's going on in the west. They tried identity politics for a short bit but didn't like it. Our country isn't suited for that and it would backfire on them eventually.
On one hand, this seems cruel to do this with 3rd graders and it can damage some of the kids relationships. On the other hand, I started to get bullied at 3rd grade because they realised that insults make me cry and they loved making me cry. Children often bully those which are different (in any possible way), so maybe similar excercises could help with this problem ?
I was bullied for being autistic and they made me feel like i wasnt human, so i stopped joining class activities and when teachers noticed, they just isolated me and continued like it wasnt wrong what happened
Yup they love to make those students cry more who cry easily. I was one of those kids who used to cry easily and they started bullying me as they loved and laughed when I used to cry, that extreme bullying made me scared of talking to new people as I thought that if I talk to anyone then it increases the chances of them bullying me as they would know that I cry easily but it also led to them thinking that I am not a normal person and they started making fun of me for this too, now I am 21 and I don't know why but I am still hesitant of talking to new people even though I do not get bullied anymore.
I remember doing something like this in fifth grade. A few students in the know went around the room and gave those of us with bright-eyes, including myself, wristbands. They then went around giving handfuls of candy to the kids with wristbands, who had bright-eyes, while walking past those without, who had dark eyes. Since my best friend had brown eyes, I was having none of it, I tore off the wristband and argued with the teacher, which ended the experiment and started the lecture on the harm of discrimination. During which they gave the dark-eyed students their candy.
Your teacher is an idiot and did the experiment wrong. The children with brown eyes were supposed to receive the special treatment during the experiment. While the blue eyed kids were supposed to experience the discrimination, ie. No candy. It was set up this way for a reason.
I have something called heterochromia, it means that my eyes are multicoloured, blue and brown. I wonder what would've happened if I was in this experiment.
The ancient prophecy: Once a man with twice colored eyes doth appear He will split the masses and stand before prejudice from both If he withstands we are forever changed If he falters we remain as we are forever
She could have given you similar privileges to the brown eyed kids. The brown eyed kids would probably question how your eye color influenced your intelligence, since they thought blue eyes were naturally less smart, and the blue eyed kids would probably be jealous of your brown eyed privileges. So youd be accepted on neither side. Probably the same situation as what happened to people with mixed skin color
In my 1st grade class, they did something similar. They put us in groups based on our birthdays, then our first initial, then if we had glasses, then our birth day, then our hair and eye color. Things became crazy because certain groups had certain supplies during craft time.
This is like A to M are achievers and likely to succeed while N to Z will most likely fail. My first real name starts with letter U which is Umaverde and having that name already screams dumbass and the teacher had the bright idea to separate everyone in tow groups and we obviously lost our shit because we lost 16 out of 20 games because of our low morale and already not cool composure after that pep talk of first letter in my name. Right now murica land is gonna take a big fat L for ultimately alienating majority of their population which is going to affect everything drastically. You don't divide people to achieve innovation you make people of different backgrounds befriend one another and prohibit any side discriminatory language. That's one way towards creating a utopia like society. People mind their own bizz, no shitholes telling you what you are, try your best to smile even if you don't. All small gestures of good things can spread more good things. I even started a trend of randomly greeting my neighbors and saying thank you and now almost 90% of my neighbors greet each other and says regards with one another.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it's almost as if anger and feeling were a fire reaction: you spark a small flame in a forest and then it generate a reaction that ended up burning the entire forest. Each leaves, each tree become a combustion reaction.
This experiment shows how the powerful(the teacher in this case) divides the masses into groups and sets them against each other. Most just get caught up in the struggle and don’t see how there is someone above who profits from the struggle itself.
Like how Mao of China gathered the strength from college students across China to kill their "dangerous" teachers and grandparents, and when his revolution was a sucsess, he sent them all to camps, suddenly switching sides to the factory workers
Exactly, it wasn’t a racist person that killed MLK it was the CIA purely because they wanted people to be racist to make them weaker, they wanted to remove a powerful and incredibly positive traditional male role model.
The teacher represents a twisted ideology of hatred and vengeance masquerading as justice that seeks to encourage racial warfare for the sake of an authoritarian sociopolitical and economic agenda. Totally unsurprisingly, Jane Elliott rubs elbows with overt Marxist types whose main goal is to exploit ethnopolitical grievances to start a revolution against capitalism. In their world, nonwhites are the proletariat and whites are the bourgeoisie. The former must destroy the latter to obtain "justice."
My English teacher did this in 7th grade... We were reading Ann Frank. The majority of the class was black with a sprinkling of white and other. She asked anyone who had blonde hair and blue eyes (only 2 kids) and everyone else to separate themselves. Well, I have dark brown hair and brown eyes, so I went with the majority of the class .. She pointed to the 2 blond hair blue eyed kids and said " Congrats, Hitler won't kill you"... we were all like WTF??
@drummerboi07 not to my knowledge (ethnicity wise=Ashkenazi.) Although nobody knew their actual genetics then. Religion wise, definitely not. Ironically, the girl was predominantly German and ended up coming out as a lesbian years later. I do have a hefty chunk of mixed slavic ancestry.. I would've hypothetically been killed in that class experiment anyway. My grandfather on my moms side left Poland with his parents and siblings in the early 1900s, though. They went through Ellis Island and changed their name to avoid issues of being slavic. Ironically, I didn't have any Jewish (Ashkenazi) pop up on any of my ancestry tests.
Teaching hatred to children intentionally for an experiment/to prove a point sounds very dangerous. I'm certain there are children who didn't let up on the bullying even after the experiment ended. I understand the intention, but I guess I'm just trying to internally find some other way it could be taught effectively since this really does feel like an iffy thing
It’s so effective to show them first hand, but you are right. Some kids would continue to bully. But kids bully regardless. So perhaps there was a net positive takeaway because some kids learned first hand that it is bad. However, I don’t think you even need this lesson to learn the concept. I never went through this but I can understand it. But then again, I am just one person and discrimination is still present in the world.
It’s terrible but I see little kids being racist thinking it’s funny. Everyone always jokes something until they go through that. People stop picking on others once they realize how it feels
@@damntae6540 Yea this experiment sounds bad on paper but the kids are gonna end up on one of the sides of it eventually. It's better to give them a first hand experience in a safe setting where they can get a little empathy on how it feels to be discriminated against or to discriminate against people.
@@ASweetShortCake tbh I think it's better teaching them how much it could hurt when they're younger because regardless of whether the teacher is involved or not kids are gonna hurt eachother. With this, they're taught the cause and effect of that in a controlled environment rather than them turning into psyco's or something. U gotta realize the older you get, the less you're willing to listen to someone else. Their personalities may already be set in stone by the time they're older. Also, by conducting this experiment, the teacher has a clearer idea of what kids continue bullying after the experiment since they could clearly see the difference with the experiment. That way the teacher could intervine whenever they see any bullying going on in the classroom. Nowadays teachers don't really do anything when they see bullying because it could potentially be some kids just being kids. At the end of the day, actions that are considered bullying now are different from what they were back then so some teachers might get confused. Overall tho, I think it's better to teach kids the effects of discrimination early on considering they might still experience it even at that young age. The more u experience discrimination, the less you'll want to do it to someone else because it's hurtful. If anything these kids need to realize that as humans we're capable of doing anything, even negative things like hate, but the key is to realize that you can do it and then don't do it at all.
I remember my class doing something like this back in elementary school. Like in the video, the teachers split us up into the two groups and told us the same thing: Bown eyes were better than Blue eyes. She'd give the brown eyed kids candy while the blue eyes we're given nothing. I don't remember much of what happened but I do remember the blue eyed kids crying or upset over it and that the roles were switched a couple hours later. It was an interesting thing looking back to say the least.
This experiment went really well for my class in elementary school. Me and my friend group were successful in unifying the class in both parts of the experiments.
This is why we need to really teach empathy to ALL kids rich and poor. It doesn't just come naturally and has to be taught. An empathic world is a much better place for everyone and it's absolutely something we should strive for, before we do ourselves in.
I find it so interesting how the behaviour and grades of the children changed so much. I was kinda expecting the behaviour part but the grades? That was interesting
It's almost like small children are in the state of life where their emotional development is most influenced by trusted adults in their lives who are supposed to encourage and guide them, or something...
People's perception of you, as well as factors such as bullying and discrimination can lower your self-confidence and focus, which can be a detriment to your academic/work performance. You feel unworthy and less valuable as a person, hence you don't feel like trying as much.
I have fellow student from US, he is extremely confident about his intelligence and doesn't care about doing mistakes. I'm Asian and afraid to do little arithmetic mistakes, because my evaluations were usually harsh and searching for my weak spots. Thats why I never get A here, because its grade for white children (quote from my teachers). I accustomed to get either 0 or full points. Its not the case for him, and despite having 2 degrees from University of Washington and UCLA, he is not capable to do single task by himself
They tried this experiment in my school. The green eyed Polish kid and me (a blue eyed kid) led a revolt, in which we basically stormed the class, said we were in charge, and then we just ruled the class for an hour. Two girls beat the living shit out of some brown eyed kid. So then they had to come in and tell us that in fact everyone was equal and we should be nice to eachother. That Polish kid is now one of my best friends and a dedicated Trotskyite.
My teacher did this in second grade, except she used gender to have a more even split. During the experiment, all logic went out the window and I was absorbed by the hatred. After the experiment I felt awful, but it was a huge eye opener.
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 My teacher was always right, so therefore if she said my gender was superior, then it was. I somehow believed it was the other side's fault that they weren't as good as us. I felt proud and superior, and mentally mocked the others. Half way through it switched, and I just accepted that I was inferior, but when you are the one being discriminated against, that hatred turns within.
Imagine how a green eyed child must feel in an experiment such as this. Or like me someone who has two colors in their eyes. In my case even though I put brown on my paperwork cause it's easier. Each of my eyes is half of my parents eye color. My mom's brown eyes and my dad's hazel eyes. The hazel when shifting makes some interesting color combinations, including red.
This experiment shows particularly well how much children learn and absorb from the adults around them and model their behavior after them. Racism is learned.
While I most certainly find this all interesting, I find it odd that many people are saying this should be mandatory in schools. That is not at all the case; imagine how damaging these experiences could be to a child's confidence, their personality, their skills, and such. This experiment was good to try, and try again perhaps, though I see it as something along the lines of a necessary evil. This experience has practical value for the kids involved, yes, but so many wrong lessons could be learnt, or children harmed in the process; I just think people shouldn't be so quick to accept something like this as the ideal. After all, blind acceptance was what caused the hostilities between the children, and it can cause many problems for adults, too. There is always a price to pay for knowledge, but it is important to make certain that the price is affordable before you pay it, so to speak.
You mean a useless experiment that was made a lot of time that ended up in the same result causing damages to children's childhood and personality just for the sake of: "let's see what happens..." For 10 times or more ? Oh wait, a toxic teaching for the sake of what they consider "ideal reality " or "good man" ? Just as toxic relationship were idealized for the creating of a "strong men" ? In the end: this seems just like an other way to impose your view of the world and interpretation as a solid rule than in fact an experiment.
@@lefishe6611 I don't know if it should be forbidden but I definitely think it was inappropriate for class of third graders. She was their authority figure that they trusted, so of course they would blindly accept what she told them.
I remember doing this not that long ago in assembly the headteacher had all the blue eyed kids line up at the back of the hall and he told all of us off and gave us 'punishments'. He eventually explained that it was an experiment but I really felt like crying throughout the whole assembly
@@nehemiahhankel3054 ooh ooh! and japanese americans! and hispanics! and some other races! what about THEM? no need to put a spotlight on specific races. when someone talks about them experiencing discrimination, don't say "well people of this color did too"
@@telumbric1292 because this is about the civil rights movement, which is for black people so of course they aren't included in this conversation, its like trying to bring black people up in a conversation about the boshin war, of course racism did effect other minorities but the event of the civil rights movement mainly affected black people, because it was about black rights, so yes i will point out black people because the whole point of the test was to teach children how it was live as a black person
This may be the only time in recorded history that people with blue eyes felt inferior, especially when you consider who wins the senior superlative for Best Eyes in every high school class.
@@kaelell4697 Open any high school yearbook and 90% of the time the winners of Best Eyes have blue eyes. One of the physical attributes of a desirable Aryan in the Third Reich was a set of blue eyes. I'm not saying that eye color DOES determine superiority. I'm saying that eye color has been used across the spectrum, from normal societal standards all the way to fascist belief structures, as a means of directly and indirectly determining superiority.
It's actually one of the most beneficial studies I've ever seen These kids only had 1 hour discrimination, black children were subjected to that for years
@@great10toes40 You can teach kids that it's wrong to treat others differently. It's not hard for them to grasp lol. I was told "Treat others how you would like to be treated" and it worked great. Her entire experiment as not needed at all.
@@fractals.There were no "facts" though. She literally just made stuff up, swapped it the next day to comtradict herself, and the kids believed her because they are literal children and she's supposed to be idk... teaching them?
What about the black children during this time. It was literally legally allowed to harass and harm them. This experience is just a little taste of the bigger picture, to show what was reality. Yes, it was traumatizing, but just a reminder, this is what the segregated black side had to deal with day after day after day.
Discrimination happens for MANY REASONS, not just race. I've faced discrimination for being a graduate of an inferior university instead of an ivy league or top business school. In sports I was discriminated against for not being part of the dad's coaching clique or an outsider from the team (we frequently moved when I was young). In church I was discriminated against for forming my own opinions about what I saw in the scriptures. In high school, I was discriminated against for being younger than my peers and therefore less emotionally and physically mature (my parents advanced me educationally at a young age). In all of these cases I had to overcome the circumstances. NOBODY CARED. I had to learn to stop waiting for them to start caring. 1. it won't happen. 2. if it does happen, THAT PERSON will then start to be discriminated against, so it won't last. Instead, I overcame discrimination by outperforming my peers. I have a choice of conforming or performing. LOWERING the standard doesn't work.
This little play provides a good understanding that we sould treat everyone as individual, or to a group of individuals. What is doesnt cover is that we differentiate in every possible way. It doesnt stops just with skin or eye color. We compare to each other like to ourselfs, and if it doenst fit we might like, dislike it or stay neutral. In addition we live in a variety of areas which has an impact to our appearence and abilities. On top of that we have our genes that have been passed on to the next generation. If we want to become a special group of race, with a certain ability, we have to breed into it. The same way nature it does to animals and plants. We cant avoid that science is ready to change humanity, never the less if its ethical or not we have the ability to evolve. Our parents will choose how we are going to look like and with what abilities we raise, the individiual part will be what defines us.
But I hate my genetics so hard. I really don't feel comfortable having an evident mark (melanin) on myself that I belong to the most vile and corrupt parts of the world, it really can affect all parts of your life where even migrating makes me feel ashamed of myself, I really do envy you guys, you really do have it easier. Love yourself and be thankful for what you have, but I...... I just can't
I experienced racism when growning up, but I tried to take best out of it. Since I'm Asian, I took example from Jackie Chan movies where Asian women portrayed as martial arts masters, and could stand up for myself. I also have critical thinking skills, because I was curious why people treat me that way. And when I grew up, I had high motivation to work and leave that country. After I left, things went south there, so I'm happy I could do it timely. My ex bullies struggle in their lifes, while I'm thriving and have secure future. But it's still wrong that it happens and she is right to continue with it. Because not everyone can fend for themselves alone, like I did. Community support is also crucial in this things
"Would you like to find out what discrimination feels like?" "Yes." "Okay, everybody segregate based on eye color. Brown eyes are superior. *One day later* No, actually, blue eyes are superior." *One day later* " . . . That was an experiment so you know what discrimination feels like after I asked you if you wanted to find out what discrimination feels like.* *Shocked pikachu faces*
School did this with my class too. Put stars on a small portion of the class. We weren't allowed to learn in the classes and had to sit on the floor in the corner. After parents found out they put a quick stop to it.
Anyone who's ever had a kid would realize how stupid this experiment is and how habias it is, I can literally make my kids excited about anything or believe anything....
Though these roles have now been flipped in modern times, discrimination is still a horrible thing, no matter who is causing it, and who is suffering it.
WOW, at 1st i thought this was a cruel pointless experiment, but after looking at the result, i agreed with this method. people really do open their eyes when they've experience the cruelness of life.
I have the vivid memory of being a kid in kindergarten and early primary school and, as is common for Somali people in Kenya, I had a house name and a more common sounding name for school. As a child, I made the connection that my school name sounded like the Swahili word for 'crying' and I decided to go by my house name exclusively. As a little kindergarten kid, I made the connection that my peers would bully for being a crybaby by using my school name, so I did my best to keep it away from them. Despite the fact that I wasn't being bullied at all in class, I just came to the conclusion that I shouldn't give anyone ammunition against me. What does that say?
I'm not black, so I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against for my skin color but I've been singled out, isolated, and bullied just for being autistic. I was excluded from events and was told I was stupid, dirty, and only allowed to graduate because the school pitied me even though I was an honor roll student. Honestly though this experiment seems very grey, it would probably be a useful excercise to make kids understand how painful it is to be mistreated just for something they were born with considering how effective this experiment was.
People with autism also cover a minority of the population, so your experiences are very real. People discriminate against neurodivergent people and have many stereotypes such as they are "lazy" and have "low IQ" But in reality, some of them just have low attention spans and learning difficulties. Autism is something people cannot control, something they are born with, and it causes a lot of discomfort and difficulty for the person in school, the workplace, and in social situations/relationships. So yes, I think it's a great idea to teach people about understanding what it's like to go through discrimination.
@@WillSpencer0417 Exactly. In my case and quite a few others I have difficulty with emotions and impulse control. I was often called a spaz and the r slur like many others. Obviously I've gotten better controlling my emotions but still, people went out of their way to get a response and then talk me down like everyday. I grew a fear of going to school and would be burnt out and cried almost everyday. It had gotten so bad I refuse to go to highschool as I prefer just doing it online. I've said this before when I was in social skills class but I believe even neurotypical kids needed the class as so many lack empathy and don't know how to treat others right. So many neurotypical people hurt neruodivergent people and yet we're the ones who 'lack empathy?' Don't get me wrong there are people on the spectrum who struggle with empathy but that's not all of us and even some people who lack empathy try to help and be nice to others, that's a whole lot more I can say than just neurotypical people honestly.
@@oddgamingcat7442 Man, really hard hearing what neurodivergent people have to go through, either in school or personal relationships. Kinda wish I could befriend you irl lol, I have a few friends who struggle with these as well.
I wonder what happens if you change the subjects of distinction. Like those who disrupt class versus those who don't. Seems like morality or ethics itself is a form of bigotry that seems to suggest people we deem bad action wise are less than those who do what we deem good, though we don't complain about that.
The implications of that are actually horrifying. Being hateful without even knowing it, coaching people to hate or dislike it without knowing how harmful it was.
Well, morality/ethics were developed for the betterment of society and that's just the hard truth of it. The majority of human societies don't function if we suddenly fracture into individuals who pillage, murder and rape our way across the continents.
If you can't see why people would discriminate against those who are ACTIVELY DISRUPTIVE or RAMBUNCTIOUS and RUDE, then you're on a whole other level of stupid. Yes, humans are wired to weed out and correct disruptive individuals in society. That's kinda the entire basis of Law & Order, unless you just wanna go back to NATURE'S law which isn't going to work out well for YOU, buddy. The weak usually get dealt with pretty quick under nature's laws.
I remember our teacher doing this with us in 2012. I think I was in 5th grade. I have blue eyes and our teacher did it the same way the first experiment was done, which was that blue eyes were the "segregated ones". I remember being sat in the back of the room while everyone else was allowed to sit at their desks and got candy & where told they didn't have to do homework etc. It was demoralizing and unfair to the point where my 10 year old self began to slowly and quietly cry in the corner after just 30 minutes or so. I'm glad my teacher took it to that extreme because that stuck with me and is the base of what I use to step back and rationalize what discrimination and hate towards another group of people is... pointless and without grounds. Now I'm 21, i'm so glad I was put into that "discriminated" part of the class because, if even for just under an hour, I got to experience the power of hate and discrimination first hand and why no one should ever have to go through something like that.
So you being woke is because you were denied candy in class one time and totally not because it is the dominant ideology of liberalism/capitalism Right
at 3:04 as a blue eyed person I felt that personally. I sit around all day, I don't remember what I learn (I'd fail a test from last year), and I swear everything I touch just breaks. This computer has lasted all of two weeks and it's already malfunctioning to some degree
@@scazab6408 lucky because of their eye color? what are you on about 😂 plus contacts exist and you can just wear contacts with a different color so you and you can also tattoo your eyes so..
I was in* an experiment like this in my own school. But when I told the teachers I was being picked on, they simply looked at my skin and said 'that can't be'. To this day ppl look at me and assume I look at them as tho they are inferior, they look at me and assume all sorts of nasty things. If I so much as smile or sneeze. *Et all, This goes both ways, it goes all ways,* and until we learn that only criteria should be 'r u human' until we learn not to judge the book by its cover.
i thought that it was a bit cruel to experiment on children because they would keep the aftermath of the experiment forever but I felt horrified and mortified on how the emphasis was on "white children". I felt my skin crawling. I thought people knew better but it was just a further statement to racism.
Our teacher did a similar experiment. I suppose it must have been the THING to do back in the day. Even though we were all quite young, I remember wondering why all these sheep were buying into such a ridiculous idea about inequality. I was raised in a good home were inequality was thought of as the domain of uneducated people; I feel sad for people who judge others based on differences.
My school did this to a less extent the kids with brown hair got to do fun activities but the kids with blonde hair because we were bad did school work I was one of the kids with blonde hair and it really showed me how it was like for minority back then this exercise should be done more because it changed my life back then I didn't understand but now I see the importance of this exercise
They did the nazi experiment with my class in year 8 and it was such a big failure that on the third day they had to have an assembly and tell us that we were to immediately stop using the word jewish as an insult and negative derogatory term and that we were not to salute the teachers or each other with a raised right hand at all
Makes you realise how Japan and Germany turned so quickly leading up to ww2 their influence on the younger generations leading to a divide of us vs everyone mentality very easily
Now this ia an education experiment I wish was not just an experiment, but mandatory in every school. My dad did a similar thing to me but in regards to other things. I live in Brazil, most people don't know this but aside from Japan it's the second country with the highest japanese population due to immigration in the past. My father is japanese, he fell on love with my mother, a brazilian. His family was very against it, as they considered brazilians an inferior race, but he just flipped them off and did as he wanted. But as I was growing up there was aways this talk coming from his side of family to me, that even if I was half blood I was still better, when my dad noticed they were poisoning my mind and I was starting to believe that he rented a 18+ movie, I forgot the name but it was a movie about all the terrible things the japanese did to other people during WW2 and he forced me to watch, I was 12 or something at the time. That shit is ingrained in my memory to this day, babies being stomped in front of their mothers, people tied to crosses being exploded for the amusement of soldiers and specially a scene where a woman is left outside in the cold snow full of cuts in her arms, then a soldier brings her back inside and puts her arm in a caudron to remove the flesh from the arm whole. Yes, he might have inflicted trauma on me on some level, but I believe this is positive trauma. For starters it made me anti-war, second it made me understand there's no superior and inferior race, we are all capable of atrocities, and the more I grew up and learned things the more I made connections to that movie when learning about fascism, racism and other types of discrimination. Not even that but I have relatives who were tortured during the dictatorship years because of their political beliefs, I was born in 88 so I didn't experienced that, the dictatorship was from 64 to 85. Would I say trauma is good? No, it isn't, but sure as hell is an efficient education tool against racism.
And to reinforce how stupid anyone can be... the Japanese immigrants didn't had exactly a easy life here. This immigration started as a government effort to boost economy (not exactly right but too many details to explain), promises where made about opportunity and all that, but when people arrived here things obviously didn't go as promise. And there is the idea here that people of asian descent are inferior. Our country has so many people of so many different countries, to the point where you can't even really say there is "true" Brazilian biotype, but there is no lack of jackass that finds a reason to hate others. Saude pra voce, as vezes o melhor que podemos fazer e viver felizes e tentar distrubuir essa felicidade nos limites de nossas vidas. Nao parece muito mas essas coisas se espalham.
Kinda cruel for children honestly… Like are they some kind of lab rats or something??? Yes technically the kids did say “yes” but it’s not like they know the details of it so it was not really consented.
@@lilglitchboi7259 why? Because every single one of the literal “trillions” of people that came before us were racist until the civil rights movement happened?! I don’t think so, don’t you remember that war we fought in the 1860’s to stop slavery?
@@lilglitchboi7259 and your first argument doesn’t make any sense, because if that was the case then teachers could just Assault children if they wanted to, because victims of assault don’t “Consent or Agree” to getting beat up either.
@@lilglitchboi7259 They don't consent or agree to discrimenation but I'm certain they would opt-out of it if they had been given the opportunity. The children were too stupid to understand what they were getting involved in, thus their consent in the decision was not legitimate. There is a reason as to why parental/guardian consent is mandated for minors for _many_ decisions.
@@lilglitchboi7259 tf are you on about? So it's okay use children in an experiment that could psychologically mess them up.. because minorities get bullied? Stupid ass argument
I remember my elementary school doing similar experiments. One was on a ship and another was with the political system. We were given roles of course, and our teacher played favorites. I was not a favorite. I would consistently get the worst roles, for one I had to chew the gum off desks (I refused to because that is disgusting) and pick up after others, I could not speak unless spoken to and given permission, I could not say no, and a whole bunch of other stuff including a dress code for what colours I was allowed to wear, which were light tans and white. I didn’t listen to any of them, came to school clad in black, my dad’s old combat boots and his leather biker jacket which was too big for me at the time and with a hot pink shirt and hot pink guitar. I wasn’t allowed to speak? Well then, I’d play guitar in the most untuned way possible until I was given permission that way I wouldn’t be sent to the office for breaking the rules. The gum off the desks by chewing? I didn’t do it. Instead I told kids that it was a great way to save their chewing gum for later and that the teacher’s desk was the spit that kept them best fresh, so vengeance and the other kids would peal it off and chew it again themselves. I was also obligated to follow all orders from my ‘superiors’, that being everyone but me. I did not do that either and instead kept on trying to convince other kids of a mutiny. No one went with me and I took action myself and took out the second in command who now no longer took part in the experiment, but I did not take over their role. I ensured nobody else could take it and went again after my target, the captain. With the help of the ones who were in the role of being stuck in the hull (they were not allowed to speak or do anything either but at least no nasty chew gum off of desks rule) and two of the second in command’s friends, I began to stage a mutiny finally, but the teacher jumped in and stopped us, and begrudgingly gave me a B+ because I still got all the information on every test correct. Another one dictated that me and a small sect of students could not speak at all except when asked to and only for a total of fifteen seconds a day. Our recess was three minutes and we were only allowed one bathroom break. My communication with others had to be under supervision and I had to keep my face covered. We were not allowed to leave the classroom without supervision either. Other than that, to avoid me plotting revolt again the made it so we had to follow assigned roles, mine being loyal to a crown. I could not truly argue in favor of it because I found it stupid. I also rebelled on that one. Take too long in the bathroom by sneaking into the janitor’s closet next door, go to recess and leave my backpack dressed up as me with my hood up reading a book as I never went anywhere without a jacket, and take as long as I wanted at recess or even longer. I spoke when I wanted to and even badmouthed the teacher because I was fed up with her, and when we were required to wear gags to keep us from speaking, I’d use the dictionary and clips from songs and notes to speak to people, and I’d use the songs mainly for obscenities directed at the teacher. I like what this teacher did, there was no bias and it demonstrated what she said it would and it provided a teaching opportunity for her students. It was not an instrument of favoritism like my old teacher would do. I am a bit disappointed at how quickly people like children were to believe this but I still observe and experiment with it today. People are more likely to believe dehumanising things of other when they believe it makes them more special.
What the hell, I expected to read a story about elementary school experiment and instead read 1984. Were you in North Korean school perhaps? Sounds like a cruel experiment to me, and too large scale and serious as for an elementary school. Your alleged ability to play guitar in elementary school, and your portrayed intelligence in elementary school makes me doubt that story is true.
@ I wasn’t very good at playing guitar, I just played it untuned and knew how to make it sound terrible. And it was in about 4th-5th grade, before I left that school anyway. And no, that was the USA. Teachers suck, and ‘gifted’ schools tend to be worse, but my mom wanted me to be a high achiever. I will admit I had to do a bunch of tests, one being an IQ test, of which I had to pass at at least the 98th percentile to get in and display artistic abilities, didn’t want to do any of it however because the deal was that whatever I gave them they got to keep, I wanted to keep my artwork but obviously I didn’t. Other than that, my dad had an old mp3 player, I just liked looking in the dictionary for bias because I found it interesting to revise the dictionary whenever I found inaccuracies, albeit back then I think I mainly used it to hit people that wouldn’t leave me alone with it, and my only friends were two kids from second grade (never had luck with any my age) and essentially the janitors and the librarian. I felt safest in the janitor’s closet and I knew they wouldn’t snitch on me to the teacher. To be honest though, there were other bad moments, got made an example of in front of the classroom, not gonna go into what happened there because I don’t particularly like thinking about it, and then another issue at another school I had was that one teacher would specifically pick on me and this one other kid, me because I was poor and the other kid because he was black. Start of school she’s separate us from everyone and make us do two laps around the school before letting us go inside, making us always late to class, I eventually started going the other way but she just changed her route and at some point complained to the librarian and she started to sneak me inside using the book cart (they had a big one). For the same school with those issues however, the gifted school, they had a gigantic library but we weren’t allowed to borrow or read any books, and I also got reprimanded for reading a book after an exam, they took my book and never gave it back and I asked when we were allowed to read them and they told me ‘books aren’t for reading’. Unsurprisingly I dropped out of ‘gifted’ school. Didn’t need it anyway, learned a whole lot more from just messing around in a public library and doing research on things that interested me. Mom wasn’t happy after that but she at least decided my mental health was more important than the school, that time at least. I can go on with stories but I’m not going to. As for middle school, I was homeschooled during that time, and I introduced myself to the concept of anarchism, which I never encountered before at a school library because of censorship and whatnot despite the fact that the books I read were either always on revolution or for some odd reason bacteria. I was also an extreme germaphobe for most of elementary school.
literally, when my class did this, I got an even weirder result which still feels relevant my eyes didnt match either and i was stuck flip flopping they didnt do all of this but just a single class period questionnaire
The experiment is interesting, but I don't agree with those who say they should do it in all classes. Such an experiment could cause problems for children in the future too, not only in terms of bullying but perhaps also from the point of view of character and academic development. Not to mention the friendships that would risk ruining. I understand that teaching is important, but I don't know if it's worth it for kids who might not even be racist in the future anyway. It would be useful to see how the "victims" of the experiment grew up
As a blue eyed person i can say with certainty that Ms. Jane Elliott got a W for this experiment and the effectiveness of it in teaching about racism and discrimination
i think you missed the point, having blue or brown eyes doesn't matter it's just that she chose any difference among the students and was able to cause discrimination from it
@@xyzedits1 i missed the point? Did you not read my fucking comment and not watch the video? Because i as a *BLUE EYED person* support her experiment because it effectively teaches about the effects of racism and discrimination and how it's bad and shouldn't be a thing just because of the slightest difference between people shouldn't be the deciding factor of who is "superior" it should be their actions and actually character
I will be honest here, i was born with racism, when i was a kid i used to think that black people are black because they are dirty and dont bath or something, i maintained my distance from them, as i grew up I understood things, and i am not like that anymore 😂
7:39 Ngl, I kinda hate her response. I expected something more insightful and on the nose like "Why is the experience of discrimination less important just because it happens to black children who experience it more? If anything, the fact they experience it more and was subjected to feeling how it feels to be on the opposite end of the hatred says volumes and was the basis of my experiment, as every type of kid knew, or knew more, what it felt like to be treated with bigotry." I dunno, I feel like she could've done more with her point instead of counterintuitively antagonizing the white children by ridiculing their "fragile egos" when it was the parents who perpetuated that point, she basically just made the same point the other parents did, just more blunt and swapped.
I love how the callers were unknowingly proving her point even more
yeah, idiots
except they weren't.. to do an 'experiment' with kids is wrong on so many levels.. ppls only takeaway on this is that it was white parents that called and were upset.. children are protected for a reason.. you can educate children pretty easily without putting them in a dangerous social 'experiment', because children are VERY impressionable in school since teachers are the authority and the children accept it because their parents tell them that.. this woman should have been fired, but she wasn't because she was a white woman championing the cause for the black side of racism.. I don't care for racism myself and think it's so stupid, but I would NEVER put young impressionable minds in a dangerous experiment like this.. and no, it is not 'dangerous' to me because brown eyed kids were considered better.. it is dangerous because it promoted the same exact problem found later in life because of ignorant ppl.. and that is what she did, just created ignorant thought processes in young minds for an experimental purpose..
some of the children probably got it, but I know that some children didn't.. why do I know this?
because humans minds work that way, and they don't accept everything told or shown to them.. they turn more hateful, depressed, or bitter..
but maybe you and others think those children don't matter.. for me all children matter, so their minds shouldn't be forced into an experiment by a teacher that apparently wasn't screened well enough.. she was only lucky something worse didn't happen in the classroom
nobody cares blacks
duhh
@@8kun973 Big fat L for you bruh
@@8kun973naw
I remember participating in this in the early '70s I did not have blue eyes nor did I have brown eyes I had Hazel eyes and I am Hispanic, I can honestly say that kids did turn violent, both groups made me a pariah, and they're bad behavior didn't quit after the exercise was over. There was one little girl in my class by the name of crystal she would watch out for me after that, nobody messed with her because she had older brothers, they would watch out for me on the playground and walk me home from school, she was the only black girl and I was the only Latino, we were friends for years
*their
@@daforkgaming3320 *your mom
@@daforkgaming3320 I'm surprised there are people like me who watch videos and comment on them months or years after the video was released
@@tuetoburger I’m more surprised on a video released a year ago with only 4,000 views there are three people commenting on the same comment released 8 months ago in the same couple hours.
@@dracnoian5327 necroposting moment
Imagine one of the blue eyed kids just casually refuted her point like “I have the highest grades in the class, you’re wrong”
Probably wouldn’t have worked some kid would have claimed he was cheating or something else that could explain why he has the highest grades
That wouldn't happen cause brown eye people are smarter
@@flyingspinners1 I started writing something about cheating, then saw your comment XD
@@flyingspinners1 no, at the start. Meaning the kids weren't brainwashed yet
Maybe the class topper of that class was a brown-eyed kid, it's just more likely because brown eyed kids outnumbered the blue eyed kids.
Edit:- One student asked her how she was the teacher when she herself had blue eyes, then you heard what excuse the brown-eyed kids came up with.
All these experiments also show how much social expectations and constructs can influence human behaviour. It's intriguing.
Our entire behavior is influenced by society. Different upbringings, created by societal standards and functions, create drastically different people; different schools and curriculum give them different views of the world, based on what version of history they are taught, which influences what kind of people become the leaders in society. Societal norms directly contribute to how a person acts in their daily life. Some people are aware of this, and use it to their advantage to shift the population into their beliefs.
Don’t forget that social constructs began as a facet of nature far before society had even begun to exist
@@zacariasnelson5753 I'm curious, how so?
@@SleepiAbyss from an evolutionary perspective, the nature of humanity is the cause of much of what has become of society. It is only because of the opportunities that the eventual safety in numbers resulted in deeper contemplation and evaluation of what could be that we ended up “progressing” (to a certain degree) to the point where we have societal norms that ought to be called into question
@@zacariasnelson5753 I suppose you're right, humans are social animals. And human gatherings, e.g. societies have been around a long while. Interesting to think about.
It should be common sense by now that making people focus on differences in a negative manner causes disharmony and increases the possibility of violence.
Its what the government wants, my amigo
By keeping us separated and against each other it enables them to remain in power
@@hobomike6935 It's not what my government wants, but the people in my government feel somewhat more secure in their power.
@@niccosalonga9009 isn't it though
@@tumultuousv Nah, my government (current administration at least) would rather we not think of fighting or violence in general. Instead they'd rather we (the locals) buy more stuff, watch more entertainment media, and ignore the fact that many of the powerful families who rule my country have been doing so since our country's colonial era. It's a bit of a different situation from what's going on in the west. They tried identity politics for a short bit but didn't like it. Our country isn't suited for that and it would backfire on them eventually.
@@niccosalonga9009 my country isn’t real
On one hand, this seems cruel to do this with 3rd graders and it can damage some of the kids relationships. On the other hand, I started to get bullied at 3rd grade because they realised that insults make me cry and they loved making me cry. Children often bully those which are different (in any possible way), so maybe similar excercises could help with this problem ?
I was bullied for being autistic and they made me feel like i wasnt human, so i stopped joining class activities and when teachers noticed, they just isolated me and continued like it wasnt wrong what happened
Yup they love to make those students cry more who cry easily.
I was one of those kids who used to cry easily and they started bullying me as they loved and laughed when I used to cry, that extreme bullying made me scared of talking to new people as I thought that if I talk to anyone then it increases the chances of them bullying me as they would know that I cry easily but it also led to them thinking that I am not a normal person and they started making fun of me for this too, now I am 21 and I don't know why but I am still hesitant of talking to new people even though I do not get bullied anymore.
@@kanekiken2002 lol
@@cheefqueef6494 Yeah you can laugh at me if it makes you happy.
I have stopped caring about likes of you, long ago.
@@cheefqueef6494 Intelligence lvl 0
I remember doing something like this in fifth grade. A few students in the know went around the room and gave those of us with bright-eyes, including myself, wristbands. They then went around giving handfuls of candy to the kids with wristbands, who had bright-eyes, while walking past those without, who had dark eyes. Since my best friend had brown eyes, I was having none of it, I tore off the wristband and argued with the teacher, which ended the experiment and started the lecture on the harm of discrimination. During which they gave the dark-eyed students their candy.
you're a real one alright
@@lykos.. Crazy thing is, way too many teachers actually punish the entire class or an entire group for something one person did.
Your teacher is an idiot and did the experiment wrong.
The children with brown eyes were supposed to receive the special treatment during the experiment.
While the blue eyed kids were supposed to experience the discrimination, ie. No candy.
It was set up this way for a reason.
@@lykos.. These teachers are doing this experiment all wrong.
WSs think less melanin is superior, while the teacher intentionally said more melanin is superior in the experiment to prove a point.
I have something called heterochromia, it means that my eyes are multicoloured, blue and brown. I wonder what would've happened if I was in this experiment.
You're the one to unite them.
You’d be a pariah.
The ancient prophecy:
Once a man with twice colored eyes doth appear
He will split the masses and stand before prejudice from both
If he withstands we are forever changed
If he falters we remain as we are forever
You sat in the middle of the class room with a bag of popcorn and watched it all happen.
She could have given you similar privileges to the brown eyed kids. The brown eyed kids would probably question how your eye color influenced your intelligence, since they thought blue eyes were naturally less smart, and the blue eyed kids would probably be jealous of your brown eyed privileges. So youd be accepted on neither side. Probably the same situation as what happened to people with mixed skin color
In my 1st grade class, they did something similar. They put us in groups based on our birthdays, then our first initial, then if we had glasses, then our birth day, then our hair and eye color. Things became crazy because certain groups had certain supplies during craft time.
This is like A to M are achievers and likely to succeed while N to Z will most likely fail. My first real name starts with letter U which is Umaverde and having that name already screams dumbass and the teacher had the bright idea to separate everyone in tow groups and we obviously lost our shit because we lost 16 out of 20 games because of our low morale and already not cool composure after that pep talk of first letter in my name.
Right now murica land is gonna take a big fat L for ultimately alienating majority of their population which is going to affect everything drastically. You don't divide people to achieve innovation you make people of different backgrounds befriend one another and prohibit any side discriminatory language. That's one way towards creating a utopia like society. People mind their own bizz, no shitholes telling you what you are, try your best to smile even if you don't. All small gestures of good things can spread more good things.
I even started a trend of randomly greeting my neighbors and saying thank you and now almost 90% of my neighbors greet each other and says regards with one another.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it's almost as if anger and feeling were a fire reaction: you spark a small flame in a forest and then it generate a reaction that ended up burning the entire forest. Each leaves, each tree become a combustion reaction.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 i know this isn’t relevant to what you said but you are so extremely pretty-
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it wasn't morale. You guys were just dumb
@@prettyrat. yes
This experiment shows how the powerful(the teacher in this case) divides the masses into groups and sets them against each other. Most just get caught up in the struggle and don’t see how there is someone above who profits from the struggle itself.
Like how Mao of China gathered the strength from college students across China to kill their "dangerous" teachers and grandparents, and when his revolution was a sucsess, he sent them all to camps, suddenly switching sides to the factory workers
Prison system be like
The teacher represents congress
Exactly, it wasn’t a racist person that killed MLK it was the CIA purely because they wanted people to be racist to make them weaker, they wanted to remove a powerful and incredibly positive traditional male role model.
The teacher represents a twisted ideology of hatred and vengeance masquerading as justice that seeks to encourage racial warfare for the sake of an authoritarian sociopolitical and economic agenda. Totally unsurprisingly, Jane Elliott rubs elbows with overt Marxist types whose main goal is to exploit ethnopolitical grievances to start a revolution against capitalism. In their world, nonwhites are the proletariat and whites are the bourgeoisie. The former must destroy the latter to obtain "justice."
My English teacher did this in 7th grade... We were reading Ann Frank. The majority of the class was black with a sprinkling of white and other. She asked anyone who had blonde hair and blue eyes (only 2 kids) and everyone else to separate themselves. Well, I have dark brown hair and brown eyes, so I went with the majority of the class .. She pointed to the 2 blond hair blue eyed kids and said " Congrats, Hitler won't kill you"... we were all like WTF??
Let me bet one of the blonde haired blue eyed kids was Jewish
@drummerboi07 not to my knowledge (ethnicity wise=Ashkenazi.) Although nobody knew their actual genetics then. Religion wise, definitely not. Ironically, the girl was predominantly German and ended up coming out as a lesbian years later. I do have a hefty chunk of mixed slavic ancestry.. I would've hypothetically been killed in that class experiment anyway. My grandfather on my moms side left Poland with his parents and siblings in the early 1900s, though. They went through Ellis Island and changed their name to avoid issues of being slavic. Ironically, I didn't have any Jewish (Ashkenazi) pop up on any of my ancestry tests.
the difference with eye color and race is that eye color doesn't determine intelligence
I hope, that teacher being fired.
Fran Stank
Teaching hatred to children intentionally for an experiment/to prove a point sounds very dangerous. I'm certain there are children who didn't let up on the bullying even after the experiment ended. I understand the intention, but I guess I'm just trying to internally find some other way it could be taught effectively since this really does feel like an iffy thing
It’s so effective to show them first hand, but you are right. Some kids would continue to bully. But kids bully regardless. So perhaps there was a net positive takeaway because some kids learned first hand that it is bad. However, I don’t think you even need this lesson to learn the concept. I never went through this but I can understand it. But then again, I am just one person and discrimination is still present in the world.
It’s terrible but I see little kids being racist thinking it’s funny. Everyone always jokes something until they go through that. People stop picking on others once they realize how it feels
@@damntae6540 Yea this experiment sounds bad on paper but the kids are gonna end up on one of the sides of it eventually. It's better to give them a first hand experience in a safe setting where they can get a little empathy on how it feels to be discriminated against or to discriminate against people.
They need to be older. Teachers shouldn’t be teaching students to hurt each other when they’re so young.
@@ASweetShortCake tbh I think it's better teaching them how much it could hurt when they're younger because regardless of whether the teacher is involved or not kids are gonna hurt eachother. With this, they're taught the cause and effect of that in a controlled environment rather than them turning into psyco's or something. U gotta realize the older you get, the less you're willing to listen to someone else. Their personalities may already be set in stone by the time they're older. Also, by conducting this experiment, the teacher has a clearer idea of what kids continue bullying after the experiment since they could clearly see the difference with the experiment. That way the teacher could intervine whenever they see any bullying going on in the classroom. Nowadays teachers don't really do anything when they see bullying because it could potentially be some kids just being kids. At the end of the day, actions that are considered bullying now are different from what they were back then so some teachers might get confused. Overall tho, I think it's better to teach kids the effects of discrimination early on considering they might still experience it even at that young age. The more u experience discrimination, the less you'll want to do it to someone else because it's hurtful. If anything these kids need to realize that as humans we're capable of doing anything, even negative things like hate, but the key is to realize that you can do it and then don't do it at all.
That kid saying, if she didn't have blue eyes she'd be the principal or superintendent, is a savage
I remember my class doing something like this back in elementary school. Like in the video, the teachers split us up into the two groups and told us the same thing: Bown eyes were better than Blue eyes. She'd give the brown eyed kids candy while the blue eyes we're given nothing. I don't remember much of what happened but I do remember the blue eyed kids crying or upset over it and that the roles were switched a couple hours later.
It was an interesting thing looking back to say the least.
Hope you guys enjoyed today's episode!
It was great!
@@pongo4966 yup
This experiment went really well for my class in elementary school. Me and my friend group were successful in unifying the class in both parts of the experiments.
This is why we need to really teach empathy to ALL kids rich and poor. It doesn't just come naturally and has to be taught. An empathic world is a much better place for everyone and it's absolutely something we should strive for, before we do ourselves in.
I find it so interesting how the behaviour and grades of the children changed so much. I was kinda expecting the behaviour part but the grades? That was interesting
It's almost like small children are in the state of life where their emotional development is most influenced by trusted adults in their lives who are supposed to encourage and guide them, or something...
People's perception of you, as well as factors such as bullying and discrimination can lower your self-confidence and focus, which can be a detriment to your academic/work performance. You feel unworthy and less valuable as a person, hence you don't feel like trying as much.
@@drawingdragon yeah, kinda like real life
I have fellow student from US, he is extremely confident about his intelligence and doesn't care about doing mistakes. I'm Asian and afraid to do little arithmetic mistakes, because my evaluations were usually harsh and searching for my weak spots. Thats why I never get A here, because its grade for white children (quote from my teachers). I accustomed to get either 0 or full points. Its not the case for him, and despite having 2 degrees from University of Washington and UCLA, he is not capable to do single task by himself
I really like how you visualized the video😊
Thanks! I hope I won't stop improving the quality of my videos, ever
@@TheEniqma yes the animation was very well done. Loved the little “ufo” joke insert ahah
They tried this experiment in my school. The green eyed Polish kid and me (a blue eyed kid) led a revolt, in which we basically stormed the class, said we were in charge, and then we just ruled the class for an hour.
Two girls beat the living shit out of some brown eyed kid. So then they had to come in and tell us that in fact everyone was equal and we should be nice to eachother. That Polish kid is now one of my best friends and a dedicated Trotskyite.
Funny that the Polish kid is a Trotskyite yet Trotsky’s country literally went to the gates of Warsaw
Yeah it's safe to say that poles don't get along with fascists that well.
My Mom always tells me about how her class did this experiment. It was very memorable for her
2:23 "UFO is real" 💀
My teacher did this in second grade, except she used gender to have a more even split. During the experiment, all logic went out the window and I was absorbed by the hatred. After the experiment I felt awful, but it was a huge eye opener.
Curious, what was going through your head when the hatred began?
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 My teacher was always right, so therefore if she said my gender was superior, then it was. I somehow believed it was the other side's fault that they weren't as good as us. I felt proud and superior, and mentally mocked the others. Half way through it switched, and I just accepted that I was inferior, but when you are the one being discriminated against, that hatred turns within.
There's a certain historical figure that would be very mad about the blue eyes being lesser
Yeahhhh, a certain painter
@@Katiplays1291 You mean the dude who was rejected from art school?
Oh yes, someone with a very distinctive moustache
Yeah, made the same mistake as Napoleon, though. Can't remember, something to do with Russia and the winter...
Was it the guy who almost wiped a population out??
I understand the purpose of this experiment but I’d honestly say that it has outstayed its welcome.
"it's just a social experiment bro"
the experiment:
Imagine how a green eyed child must feel in an experiment such as this. Or like me someone who has two colors in their eyes. In my case even though I put brown on my paperwork cause it's easier. Each of my eyes is half of my parents eye color. My mom's brown eyes and my dad's hazel eyes. The hazel when shifting makes some interesting color combinations, including red.
Green was included in brown.
@@Aquilenne That doesn't sound right, given that they are two different colors.
@@dwainmarsh9139 I agree, but the teacher clearly disagreed.
2:00-2:05
That symbolizes being biracial you would still get discriminated against because of the one drop rule.
When given the chance... Humanity will devour each other.
Today I'm reminded that how rules have prevented us from becoming monsters
This experiment shows particularly well how much children learn and absorb from the adults around them and model their behavior after them. Racism is learned.
When given ' authority' humans can do cruel things to each other.
While I most certainly find this all interesting, I find it odd that many people are saying this should be mandatory in schools. That is not at all the case; imagine how damaging these experiences could be to a child's confidence, their personality, their skills, and such. This experiment was good to try, and try again perhaps, though I see it as something along the lines of a necessary evil. This experience has practical value for the kids involved, yes, but so many wrong lessons could be learnt, or children harmed in the process; I just think people shouldn't be so quick to accept something like this as the ideal. After all, blind acceptance was what caused the hostilities between the children, and it can cause many problems for adults, too. There is always a price to pay for knowledge, but it is important to make certain that the price is affordable before you pay it, so to speak.
Mandatory, the hell? This should be forbidden.
You mean a useless experiment that was made a lot of time that ended up in the same result causing damages to children's childhood and personality just for the sake of: "let's see what happens..." For 10 times or more ? Oh wait, a toxic teaching for the sake of what they consider "ideal reality " or "good man" ? Just as toxic relationship were idealized for the creating of a "strong men" ? In the end: this seems just like an other way to impose your view of the world and interpretation as a solid rule than in fact an experiment.
@@lefishe6611 I don't know if it should be forbidden but I definitely think it was inappropriate for class of third graders. She was their authority figure that they trusted, so of course they would blindly accept what she told them.
That's what I was thinking how cruel this is the push this on kids
@@AlphaWolfShade yh it would be better for like 5th or 6th graders
This shows how warped our perceptions can get from discrimination and our need to conform to it
As someone with green eyes, I see this as an absolute win
Underrated. Get a like.
After they eliminate blue eyes, you're next
This actually shows the power of suggestion and deception.
Damn 1922? She's a genius and a time traveler
The fact that not all understand the reference and it has 10 likes in 1 day ain’t bad
I remember doing this not that long ago in assembly the headteacher had all the blue eyed kids line up at the back of the hall and he told all of us off and gave us 'punishments'. He eventually explained that it was an experiment but I really felt like crying throughout the whole assembly
guess you knew how black people felt/feel
@@nehemiahhankel3054 are you saying that in a nasty way I really can't tell online, sorry
@@StarringRen no
@@nehemiahhankel3054 ooh ooh! and japanese americans! and hispanics! and some other races! what about THEM?
no need to put a spotlight on specific races. when someone talks about them experiencing discrimination, don't say "well people of this color did too"
@@telumbric1292 because this is about the civil rights movement, which is for black people so of course they aren't included in this conversation, its like trying to bring black people up in a conversation about the boshin war, of course racism did effect other minorities but the event of the civil rights movement mainly affected black people, because it was about black rights, so yes i will point out black people because the whole point of the test was to teach children how it was live as a black person
This channel is so underrated. I hope the algorithm starts randomly recommending this to everyone soon.
It's currently doing that 😁 my old videos are getting attention
"Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes" put into practice.
when I heard her say lets find out at 1:33 my heart skipped a beat
This may be the only time in recorded history that people with blue eyes felt inferior, especially when you consider who wins the senior superlative for Best Eyes in every high school class.
Technically Nazi Germany praised blue eyes.
why would eye color determine superiority???
@@kaelell4697 Open any high school yearbook and 90% of the time the winners of Best Eyes have blue eyes. One of the physical attributes of a desirable Aryan in the Third Reich was a set of blue eyes. I'm not saying that eye color DOES determine superiority. I'm saying that eye color has been used across the spectrum, from normal societal standards all the way to fascist belief structures, as a means of directly and indirectly determining superiority.
@@monostarsky DAMN, i guess eye color does make a difference
@@monostarsky I wonder why this is though, what’s the psychology behind it?
imagine teaching kids to bully each other over physical traits and getting famous for it
It's actually one of the most beneficial studies I've ever seen
These kids only had 1 hour discrimination, black children were subjected to that for years
She just stated the "facts," they were the ones doing the bullying
@@great10toes40 You can teach kids that it's wrong to treat others differently. It's not hard for them to grasp lol.
I was told "Treat others how you would like to be treated" and it worked great. Her entire experiment as not needed at all.
@@fractals.There were no "facts" though. She literally just made stuff up, swapped it the next day to comtradict herself, and the kids believed her because they are literal children and she's supposed to be idk... teaching them?
What about the black children during this time. It was literally legally allowed to harass and harm them. This experience is just a little taste of the bigger picture, to show what was reality. Yes, it was traumatizing, but just a reminder, this is what the segregated black side had to deal with day after day after day.
If that happened nowadays this teacher would be arrested so quick 💀
I mean she did it again not long ago, so...
@@WhoWatchesThis wait really??
@@sara_esther i mean yes...
Kids with green eyes are like: bro you forgot me or what!
In a way, it's comforting to know that insanity has existed back then and is no different now.
Trust me as long as theirs humans insanity will be around
Fear of the different causing discrimination is basic human nature and has been here since we first existed thousands of years ago.
@@thatonefpsgamer1339 Exactly. If we want true peace, then sadly we'll have to become mindless creatures
it's really not
Those kids understood racism better than most adults everywhere in the world
Discrimination happens for MANY REASONS, not just race. I've faced discrimination for being a graduate of an inferior university instead of an ivy league or top business school. In sports I was discriminated against for not being part of the dad's coaching clique or an outsider from the team (we frequently moved when I was young). In church I was discriminated against for forming my own opinions about what I saw in the scriptures. In high school, I was discriminated against for being younger than my peers and therefore less emotionally and physically mature (my parents advanced me educationally at a young age). In all of these cases I had to overcome the circumstances. NOBODY CARED. I had to learn to stop waiting for them to start caring. 1. it won't happen. 2. if it does happen, THAT PERSON will then start to be discriminated against, so it won't last. Instead, I overcame discrimination by outperforming my peers. I have a choice of conforming or performing. LOWERING the standard doesn't work.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon: hold my white lightning
This little play provides a good understanding that we sould treat everyone as individual, or to a group of individuals. What is doesnt cover is that we differentiate in every possible way. It doesnt stops just with skin or eye color. We compare to each other like to ourselfs, and if it doenst fit we might like, dislike it or stay neutral. In addition we live in a variety of areas which has an impact to our appearence and abilities. On top of that we have our genes that have been passed on to the next generation. If we want to become a special group of race, with a certain ability, we have to breed into it. The same way nature it does to animals and plants. We cant avoid that science is ready to change humanity, never the less if its ethical or not we have the ability to evolve. Our parents will choose how we are going to look like and with what abilities we raise, the individiual part will be what defines us.
But I hate my genetics so hard. I really don't feel comfortable having an evident mark (melanin) on myself that I belong to the most vile and corrupt parts of the world, it really can affect all parts of your life where even migrating makes me feel ashamed of myself, I really do envy you guys, you really do have it easier. Love yourself and be thankful for what you have, but I...... I just can't
When the first kid ask "why did they shoot that king" all I could think of was the fallout new Vegas kings.
this person truly understood what it meant.
Around 7:56 You said {she was on Oprah in 1922} instead of 1992. I don't know if anyone pointed it out to you.. Its still a great video keep it up.
I experienced racism when growning up, but I tried to take best out of it.
Since I'm Asian, I took example from Jackie Chan movies where Asian women portrayed as martial arts masters, and could stand up for myself. I also have critical thinking skills, because I was curious why people treat me that way. And when I grew up, I had high motivation to work and leave that country. After I left, things went south there, so I'm happy I could do it timely. My ex bullies struggle in their lifes, while I'm thriving and have secure future.
But it's still wrong that it happens and she is right to continue with it. Because not everyone can fend for themselves alone, like I did. Community support is also crucial in this things
7:55. "In 1922 it was even featured on the Oprah Winfrey show".... I might be hearing that wrong but DAYMN .. OPRAH HAS BEEN HERE A WHILE!!!😅
She just proved that 3rd grade kids are ruthless, nothing else.
This story was in The Reader's Digest once. I think it opened a few eyes.
"Would you like to find out what discrimination feels like?"
"Yes."
"Okay, everybody segregate based on eye color. Brown eyes are superior. *One day later* No, actually, blue eyes are superior."
*One day later*
" . . . That was an experiment so you know what discrimination feels like after I asked you if you wanted to find out what discrimination feels like.*
*Shocked pikachu faces*
School did this with my class too. Put stars on a small portion of the class. We weren't allowed to learn in the classes and had to sit on the floor in the corner. After parents found out they put a quick stop to it.
"aloud" lmao
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky Thanks.
Respect to the parents.
Anyone who's ever had a kid would realize how stupid this experiment is and how habias it is, I can literally make my kids excited about anything or believe anything....
as someone with hazel eyes, i see this as a complete W
Bro get a like 👍
Though these roles have now been flipped in modern times, discrimination is still a horrible thing, no matter who is causing it, and who is suffering it.
WOW, at 1st i thought this was a cruel pointless experiment, but after looking at the result, i agreed with this method.
people really do open their eyes when they've experience the cruelness of life.
I have the vivid memory of being a kid in kindergarten and early primary school and, as is common for Somali people in Kenya, I had a house name and a more common sounding name for school. As a child, I made the connection that my school name sounded like the Swahili word for 'crying' and I decided to go by my house name exclusively. As a little kindergarten kid, I made the connection that my peers would bully for being a crybaby by using my school name, so I did my best to keep it away from them. Despite the fact that I wasn't being bullied at all in class, I just came to the conclusion that I shouldn't give anyone ammunition against me. What does that say?
Imagine being a blue eyed kid in that class...
Gg
Imagine being a black kid in the 50s
You cannot be this sensitive bro. Americans are really this feminized they cant handle going to school? Guess youre one of those school shooter types
@@ironman1458they’re little kids bro chill 💀
Differences don't unite, they divide.
I'm not black, so I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against for my skin color but I've been singled out, isolated, and bullied just for being autistic. I was excluded from events and was told I was stupid, dirty, and only allowed to graduate because the school pitied me even though I was an honor roll student. Honestly though this experiment seems very grey, it would probably be a useful excercise to make kids understand how painful it is to be mistreated just for something they were born with considering how effective this experiment was.
People with autism also cover a minority of the population, so your experiences are very real. People discriminate against neurodivergent people and have many stereotypes such as they are "lazy" and have "low IQ"
But in reality, some of them just have low attention spans and learning difficulties. Autism is something people cannot control, something they are born with, and it causes a lot of discomfort and difficulty for the person in school, the workplace, and in social situations/relationships.
So yes, I think it's a great idea to teach people about understanding what it's like to go through discrimination.
@@WillSpencer0417 Exactly. In my case and quite a few others I have difficulty with emotions and impulse control. I was often called a spaz and the r slur like many others. Obviously I've gotten better controlling my emotions but still, people went out of their way to get a response and then talk me down like everyday. I grew a fear of going to school and would be burnt out and cried almost everyday. It had gotten so bad I refuse to go to highschool as I prefer just doing it online. I've said this before when I was in social skills class but I believe even neurotypical kids needed the class as so many lack empathy and don't know how to treat others right. So many neurotypical people hurt neruodivergent people and yet we're the ones who 'lack empathy?' Don't get me wrong there are people on the spectrum who struggle with empathy but that's not all of us and even some people who lack empathy try to help and be nice to others, that's a whole lot more I can say than just neurotypical people honestly.
@@oddgamingcat7442 Man, really hard hearing what neurodivergent people have to go through, either in school or personal relationships. Kinda wish I could befriend you irl lol, I have a few friends who struggle with these as well.
Thanks a lot. I habe a masters degree and struggled with job seeking for four years.
I wonder what happens if you change the subjects of distinction.
Like those who disrupt class versus those who don't.
Seems like morality or ethics itself is a form of bigotry that seems to suggest people we deem bad action wise are less than those who do what we deem good, though we don't complain about that.
The implications of that are actually horrifying. Being hateful without even knowing it, coaching people to hate or dislike it without knowing how harmful it was.
And now add in the idea of discrimination based on intellect
How do we fix that?
Well, morality/ethics were developed for the betterment of society and that's just the hard truth of it. The majority of human societies don't function if we suddenly fracture into individuals who pillage, murder and rape our way across the continents.
@@AlphaWolfShade👆👆👆👆👆
If you can't see why people would discriminate against those who are ACTIVELY DISRUPTIVE or RAMBUNCTIOUS and RUDE, then you're on a whole other level of stupid.
Yes, humans are wired to weed out and correct disruptive individuals in society. That's kinda the entire basis of Law & Order, unless you just wanna go back to NATURE'S law which isn't going to work out well for YOU, buddy.
The weak usually get dealt with pretty quick under nature's laws.
I remember our teacher doing this with us in 2012. I think I was in 5th grade. I have blue eyes and our teacher did it the same way the first experiment was done, which was that blue eyes were the "segregated ones". I remember being sat in the back of the room while everyone else was allowed to sit at their desks and got candy & where told they didn't have to do homework etc. It was demoralizing and unfair to the point where my 10 year old self began to slowly and quietly cry in the corner after just 30 minutes or so. I'm glad my teacher took it to that extreme because that stuck with me and is the base of what I use to step back and rationalize what discrimination and hate towards another group of people is... pointless and without grounds. Now I'm 21, i'm so glad I was put into that "discriminated" part of the class because, if even for just under an hour, I got to experience the power of hate and discrimination first hand and why no one should ever have to go through something like that.
So you being woke is because you were denied candy in class one time and totally not because it is the dominant ideology of liberalism/capitalism
Right
at 3:04 as a blue eyed person I felt that personally. I sit around all day, I don't remember what I learn (I'd fail a test from last year), and I swear everything I touch just breaks. This computer has lasted all of two weeks and it's already malfunctioning to some degree
It's aight. You'll get a ton of matches at least nowadays. Meanwhile I get called poopy eyes
As a blue eyed person I feel the exact opposite and I also wish I had green eyes.
@@scazab6408 lucky because of their eye color? what are you on about 😂 plus contacts exist and you can just wear contacts with a different color so you and you can also tattoo your eyes so..
@AzureWolf168 True 💀
Green eyed kids just get their popcorn out while watching
I was a part of these experiments and things got very violent very fast.
Well this is unethical. Let’s create psychological trauma in young children by an elementary teacher’s experiment.
With a well done aftermath and discussion it makes them realize what they did to each other, giving them the experience of (being) discriminating
I was in* an experiment like this in my own school. But when I told the teachers I was being picked on, they simply looked at my skin and said 'that can't be'. To this day ppl look at me and assume I look at them as tho they are inferior, they look at me and assume all sorts of nasty things. If I so much as smile or sneeze. *Et all, This goes both ways, it goes all ways,* and until we learn that only criteria should be 'r u human' until we learn not to judge the book by its cover.
So, are you human?
@@shakey3306 neither one of you are humans, name-and-number bots
And that is how you fuel hatred.
i thought that it was a bit cruel to experiment on children because they would keep the aftermath of the experiment forever but I felt horrified and mortified on how the emphasis was on "white children". I felt my skin crawling. I thought people knew better but it was just a further statement to racism.
This proves that the best teacher is experience
Our teacher did a similar experiment. I suppose it must have been the THING to do back in the day. Even though we were all quite young, I remember wondering why all these sheep were buying into such a ridiculous idea about inequality.
I was raised in a good home were inequality was thought of as the domain of uneducated people; I feel sad for people who judge others based on differences.
At first I was like, yeah! This is nice. But at 3:33.. It feels like it's too extreme.
gee its almost like how black people get treated
This goes to show this type of stuff is taught and learned
It's basic human nature because kids would get bullied without this experiment.
My school did this to a less extent the kids with brown hair got to do fun activities but the kids with blonde hair because we were bad did school work I was one of the kids with blonde hair and it really showed me how it was like for minority back then this exercise should be done more because it changed my life back then I didn't understand but now I see the importance of this exercise
I remember my teacher in CSPE did this to show us what discrimination looked like. Lets just say it doid a great job.
Doid it?
They did the nazi experiment with my class in year 8 and it was such a big failure that on the third day they had to have an assembly and tell us that we were to immediately stop using the word jewish as an insult and negative derogatory term and that we were not to salute the teachers or each other with a raised right hand at all
Makes you realise how Japan and Germany turned so quickly leading up to ww2 their influence on the younger generations leading to a divide of us vs everyone mentality very easily
kids are cruel
-Sundowner
Now this ia an education experiment I wish was not just an experiment, but mandatory in every school.
My dad did a similar thing to me but in regards to other things.
I live in Brazil, most people don't know this but aside from Japan it's the second country with the highest japanese population due to immigration in the past.
My father is japanese, he fell on love with my mother, a brazilian.
His family was very against it, as they considered brazilians an inferior race, but he just flipped them off and did as he wanted.
But as I was growing up there was aways this talk coming from his side of family to me, that even if I was half blood I was still better, when my dad noticed they were poisoning my mind and I was starting to believe that he rented a 18+ movie, I forgot the name but it was a movie about all the terrible things the japanese did to other people during WW2 and he forced me to watch, I was 12 or something at the time.
That shit is ingrained in my memory to this day, babies being stomped in front of their mothers, people tied to crosses being exploded for the amusement of soldiers and specially a scene where a woman is left outside in the cold snow full of cuts in her arms, then a soldier brings her back inside and puts her arm in a caudron to remove the flesh from the arm whole.
Yes, he might have inflicted trauma on me on some level, but I believe this is positive trauma.
For starters it made me anti-war, second it made me understand there's no superior and inferior race, we are all capable of atrocities, and the more I grew up and learned things the more I made connections to that movie when learning about fascism, racism and other types of discrimination.
Not even that but I have relatives who were tortured during the dictatorship years because of their political beliefs, I was born in 88 so I didn't experienced that, the dictatorship was from 64 to 85.
Would I say trauma is good?
No, it isn't, but sure as hell is an efficient education tool against racism.
Tl:dr
@@stap0510 Of course you didn't, people with average to low intellects don't like reading
I don’t think every school would be able to replicate this. There’d need to be a really good teacher
The movie is probably Men behind the Sun.
And to reinforce how stupid anyone can be... the Japanese immigrants didn't had exactly a easy life here.
This immigration started as a government effort to boost economy (not exactly right but too many details to explain), promises where made about opportunity and all that, but when people arrived here things obviously didn't go as promise.
And there is the idea here that people of asian descent are inferior.
Our country has so many people of so many different countries, to the point where you can't even really say there is "true" Brazilian biotype, but there is no lack of jackass that finds a reason to hate others.
Saude pra voce, as vezes o melhor que podemos fazer e viver felizes e tentar distrubuir essa felicidade nos limites de nossas vidas. Nao parece muito mas essas coisas se espalham.
Damn, this is where 3Blue1Brown and The Who got their ideas.
Ah yes..
Harming children +their friendships and potentially traumatising them to prove a point
But just imagine if little adolf was part of that class?
He probably would have kept being prejudiced towards the blue eyed kids afterwards, like many of the actual kids were no doubt.
That's actually an interesting thought 😂💀
Kinda cruel for children honestly… Like are they some kind of lab rats or something??? Yes technically the kids did say “yes” but it’s not like they know the details of it so it was not really consented.
And the parents didn’t really agree either.
@@lilglitchboi7259 why? Because every single one of the literal “trillions” of people that came before us were racist until the civil rights movement happened?! I don’t think so, don’t you remember that war we fought in the 1860’s to stop slavery?
@@lilglitchboi7259 and your first argument doesn’t make any sense, because if that was the case then teachers could just Assault children if they wanted to, because victims of assault don’t “Consent or Agree” to getting beat up either.
@@lilglitchboi7259 They don't consent or agree to discrimenation but I'm certain they would opt-out of it if they had been given the opportunity. The children were too stupid to understand what they were getting involved in, thus their consent in the decision was not legitimate. There is a reason as to why parental/guardian consent is mandated for minors for _many_ decisions.
@@lilglitchboi7259 tf are you on about? So it's okay use children in an experiment that could psychologically mess them up.. because minorities get bullied? Stupid ass argument
Submissive is a word that has been ruined for me
Okay ..
@@tumultuousv where’s the C
Wait, hold on, I got this
@@tumultuousv C
good job teaching the kids racism
Discrimination.
That was literally the experiment.
I remember my elementary school doing similar experiments. One was on a ship and another was with the political system. We were given roles of course, and our teacher played favorites. I was not a favorite.
I would consistently get the worst roles, for one I had to chew the gum off desks (I refused to because that is disgusting) and pick up after others, I could not speak unless spoken to and given permission, I could not say no, and a whole bunch of other stuff including a dress code for what colours I was allowed to wear, which were light tans and white. I didn’t listen to any of them, came to school clad in black, my dad’s old combat boots and his leather biker jacket which was too big for me at the time and with a hot pink shirt and hot pink guitar. I wasn’t allowed to speak? Well then, I’d play guitar in the most untuned way possible until I was given permission that way I wouldn’t be sent to the office for breaking the rules. The gum off the desks by chewing? I didn’t do it. Instead I told kids that it was a great way to save their chewing gum for later and that the teacher’s desk was the spit that kept them best fresh, so vengeance and the other kids would peal it off and chew it again themselves. I was also obligated to follow all orders from my ‘superiors’, that being everyone but me. I did not do that either and instead kept on trying to convince other kids of a mutiny. No one went with me and I took action myself and took out the second in command who now no longer took part in the experiment, but I did not take over their role. I ensured nobody else could take it and went again after my target, the captain. With the help of the ones who were in the role of being stuck in the hull (they were not allowed to speak or do anything either but at least no nasty chew gum off of desks rule) and two of the second in command’s friends, I began to stage a mutiny finally, but the teacher jumped in and stopped us, and begrudgingly gave me a B+ because I still got all the information on every test correct.
Another one dictated that me and a small sect of students could not speak at all except when asked to and only for a total of fifteen seconds a day. Our recess was three minutes and we were only allowed one bathroom break. My communication with others had to be under supervision and I had to keep my face covered. We were not allowed to leave the classroom without supervision either. Other than that, to avoid me plotting revolt again the made it so we had to follow assigned roles, mine being loyal to a crown. I could not truly argue in favor of it because I found it stupid. I also rebelled on that one. Take too long in the bathroom by sneaking into the janitor’s closet next door, go to recess and leave my backpack dressed up as me with my hood up reading a book as I never went anywhere without a jacket, and take as long as I wanted at recess or even longer. I spoke when I wanted to and even badmouthed the teacher because I was fed up with her, and when we were required to wear gags to keep us from speaking, I’d use the dictionary and clips from songs and notes to speak to people, and I’d use the songs mainly for obscenities directed at the teacher.
I like what this teacher did, there was no bias and it demonstrated what she said it would and it provided a teaching opportunity for her students. It was not an instrument of favoritism like my old teacher would do. I am a bit disappointed at how quickly people like children were to believe this but I still observe and experiment with it today. People are more likely to believe dehumanising things of other when they believe it makes them more special.
What the hell, I expected to read a story about elementary school experiment and instead read 1984. Were you in North Korean school perhaps?
Sounds like a cruel experiment to me, and too large scale and serious as for an elementary school.
Your alleged ability to play guitar in elementary school, and your portrayed intelligence in elementary school makes me doubt that story is true.
@ I wasn’t very good at playing guitar, I just played it untuned and knew how to make it sound terrible. And it was in about 4th-5th grade, before I left that school anyway. And no, that was the USA. Teachers suck, and ‘gifted’ schools tend to be worse, but my mom wanted me to be a high achiever. I will admit I had to do a bunch of tests, one being an IQ test, of which I had to pass at at least the 98th percentile to get in and display artistic abilities, didn’t want to do any of it however because the deal was that whatever I gave them they got to keep, I wanted to keep my artwork but obviously I didn’t. Other than that, my dad had an old mp3 player, I just liked looking in the dictionary for bias because I found it interesting to revise the dictionary whenever I found inaccuracies, albeit back then I think I mainly used it to hit people that wouldn’t leave me alone with it, and my only friends were two kids from second grade (never had luck with any my age) and essentially the janitors and the librarian. I felt safest in the janitor’s closet and I knew they wouldn’t snitch on me to the teacher.
To be honest though, there were other bad moments, got made an example of in front of the classroom, not gonna go into what happened there because I don’t particularly like thinking about it, and then another issue at another school I had was that one teacher would specifically pick on me and this one other kid, me because I was poor and the other kid because he was black. Start of school she’s separate us from everyone and make us do two laps around the school before letting us go inside, making us always late to class, I eventually started going the other way but she just changed her route and at some point complained to the librarian and she started to sneak me inside using the book cart (they had a big one). For the same school with those issues however, the gifted school, they had a gigantic library but we weren’t allowed to borrow or read any books, and I also got reprimanded for reading a book after an exam, they took my book and never gave it back and I asked when we were allowed to read them and they told me ‘books aren’t for reading’. Unsurprisingly I dropped out of ‘gifted’ school. Didn’t need it anyway, learned a whole lot more from just messing around in a public library and doing research on things that interested me. Mom wasn’t happy after that but she at least decided my mental health was more important than the school, that time at least.
I can go on with stories but I’m not going to. As for middle school, I was homeschooled during that time, and I introduced myself to the concept of anarchism, which I never encountered before at a school library because of censorship and whatnot despite the fact that the books I read were either always on revolution or for some odd reason bacteria. I was also an extreme germaphobe for most of elementary school.
This just seems cruel to the children
literally, when my class did this, I got an even weirder result which still feels relevant
my eyes didnt match either and i was stuck flip flopping
they didnt do all of this
but just a single class period questionnaire
People who go around thinking people are black, white, blah blah blah are all going to hell.
See you there
What I learn from this is the following thought: when a person has the opportunity to humiliate and oppress his fellow man, he will do it.
The experiment is interesting, but I don't agree with those who say they should do it in all classes. Such an experiment could cause problems for children in the future too, not only in terms of bullying but perhaps also from the point of view of character and academic development. Not to mention the friendships that would risk ruining. I understand that teaching is important, but I don't know if it's worth it for kids who might not even be racist in the future anyway. It would be useful to see how the "victims" of the experiment grew up
As a blue eyed person i can say with certainty that Ms. Jane Elliott got a W for this experiment and the effectiveness of it in teaching about racism and discrimination
i think you missed the point, having blue or brown eyes doesn't matter it's just that she chose any difference among the students and was able to cause discrimination from it
@@xyzedits1 i missed the point? Did you not read my fucking comment and not watch the video? Because i as a *BLUE EYED person* support her experiment because it effectively teaches about the effects of racism and discrimination and how it's bad and shouldn't be a thing just because of the slightest difference between people shouldn't be the deciding factor of who is "superior" it should be their actions and actually character
@@xyzedits1 So Nexus was right
This feels like a joke
@@thegamerserpent4271 care to explain
imagine if there was a kid with brown/blue heterochromia
Ok hol up How's that supposed to work 💀
Discriminated or not wtf
Racism is always taught we are not born like that 😢
I will be honest here, i was born with racism, when i was a kid i used to think that black people are black because they are dirty and dont bath or something, i maintained my distance from them, as i grew up I understood things, and i am not like that anymore 😂
@@Maanjiro_gi think they meant it's learned
7:39 Ngl, I kinda hate her response. I expected something more insightful and on the nose like "Why is the experience of discrimination less important just because it happens to black children who experience it more? If anything, the fact they experience it more and was subjected to feeling how it feels to be on the opposite end of the hatred says volumes and was the basis of my experiment, as every type of kid knew, or knew more, what it felt like to be treated with bigotry." I dunno, I feel like she could've done more with her point instead of counterintuitively antagonizing the white children by ridiculing their "fragile egos" when it was the parents who perpetuated that point, she basically just made the same point the other parents did, just more blunt and swapped.