Blue/Brown Eyes: Prejudice, Discrimination, Racism

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In the first video " Blue/Brown eyes" is about Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism. When the teacher asked to the students is there any one in US who didn't treat like our brothers?. The students say the black people ,because they are "dump" stupid" . They are Prejudicing, they don't have any evidence or they didn't see black people do stupid things this is their belief they imagination. on the second part students were separated some blue eye and some are brown eye, those students before they were friends they were playing together but now the races time they play separate, they were discriminating each other. The third thing is the brown eyes were playing card pack, yesterday when they were on the low class they finished in 5.30min.but

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