Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Blog 4

What really caught my interest was the video "A Class Divided."  It was so interesting to watch young kids take on certain roles just by the teacher saying "you're better than him." It really shows how easily we can become influenced.  It's just like a psychology experiment and it proved how we are peer pressured and changed by people around us.  This also showed that we take on the roles that society gives us.  The adults were also interesting to watch because we see how angry it made them even though they were mostly white and were probably not even ever discriminated against as much as a black person would have been.  I think this just proved how ridiculous racism and segregation is, but no matter what it will always be around in some form.

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  1. It also made it easier for the kids to believe their teacher because kids are taught that they must obey and listen to adults. They haven't had the time to develop their own ideas like the adults have. The adults also became defensive because they don't want to be told that they aren't good enough.

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