nt Exploration Worksheet #1
Watch: “A Class Divided” Parts 1-5. Find it at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
1. What was the most surprising thing you learned or saw in this documentary? Nothing about this documentary was very shocking for me. The most surprising thing to me, was how little people, especially the adults, were willing to push back and stand up for themselves when they were in discriminated group. I would have assumed a group of grown people would have stood up for themselves against one grumpy woman telling them they were worth less than others. The children behaved for the most part how I thought they would.
2. How did the male and female children respond differently in the original …show more content…
Did you observe any differences in the way the black and white adult females reacted? I honestly don’t recall seeing black female speak, during the experiment. Perhaps even in the good group the Black women wear uncomfortable speaking up. The white women in both the good and bad group spoke often. Even in the end it was a white woman who spoke up about what it’s really like for black women and how other white women can’t truly understand. What might account for the differences you observed? White women generally live a life with less discrimination and therefore have less trepidation about speaking up.
6. How do you think you might react in similar situations of blatant discrimination,If you were the one being discriminated against? I hope I would stand up for myself, but I probably wouldn’t. I feel like I have behaved like both the defiant woman and the embarrassed men, from the guard experiment, in the face of discrimination. As a teenager in Hawaii, I fought a lot physically and verbally with the people who made discriminatory comments to me. Now, in the mainland and as an adult it doesn’t happen and I don’t know how I would react if it did, I’d probably do nothing and feel ashamed afterwards.
If you were witnessing another person being discriminated against? I think I’d would stand up for them. I would stand up for others before myself. I have a gross obsession with fairness, and cannot stand to see people treated
Watch: “A Class Divided” Parts 1-5. Find it at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
1. What was the most surprising thing you learned or saw in this documentary? Nothing about this documentary was very shocking for me. The most surprising thing to me, was how little people, especially the adults, were willing to push back and stand up for themselves when they were in discriminated group. I would have assumed a group of grown people would have stood up for themselves against one grumpy woman telling them they were worth less than others. The children behaved for the most part how I thought they would.
2. How did the male and female children respond differently in the original …show more content…
Did you observe any differences in the way the black and white adult females reacted? I honestly don’t recall seeing black female speak, during the experiment. Perhaps even in the good group the Black women wear uncomfortable speaking up. The white women in both the good and bad group spoke often. Even in the end it was a white woman who spoke up about what it’s really like for black women and how other white women can’t truly understand. What might account for the differences you observed? White women generally live a life with less discrimination and therefore have less trepidation about speaking up.
6. How do you think you might react in similar situations of blatant discrimination,If you were the one being discriminated against? I hope I would stand up for myself, but I probably wouldn’t. I feel like I have behaved like both the defiant woman and the embarrassed men, from the guard experiment, in the face of discrimination. As a teenager in Hawaii, I fought a lot physically and verbally with the people who made discriminatory comments to me. Now, in the mainland and as an adult it doesn’t happen and I don’t know how I would react if it did, I’d probably do nothing and feel ashamed afterwards.
If you were witnessing another person being discriminated against? I think I’d would stand up for them. I would stand up for others before myself. I have a gross obsession with fairness, and cannot stand to see people treated