The Brown-Eye/Blue-Eye Experiment

In 1968, a teacher in an Iowa elementary school performed a legendary experiment as a lesson on racism for her third grade class. This experimented consisted in making a group of children in a classroom believe that blue eyed kids were better than brown eyed kids and vice-versa and then see how this affected the way they acted.

First the teacher started by making the class believe that the blue eyed kidswere better. The kids believed it and blue eyed kids were being a little discriminating towards the brown eyed kids. Also, they played a little learning game and the brown eyed kids took longer to finish it.

Then the teacher made the class elieve that brown eyed kids were superior to blue eyed kids. The brown eyed kids felt superior and when they were playing the little learning game, they finished a lot faster than when they were told that they were inferior to blue eyed kids.

This shows people how people can discriminate other based on what they are taught or shown

A prejudice is a prejudgment. It is an assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy.
Discrimination is a sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category.

I found really interesting how the kids achieved their class work in a more efficient way when they wew told that they were better than the others.