Prejudice And Brown-Eyed Students: Text Analysis

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ccording to the text, stereotyping is automatically assuming that because of the way a person looks they will act a certain way or believe certain things (Kassin, Fein, & Markus, 2014). This is seen when the class will be split into blue-eyed and brown-eyed students and that on the first day, they assumed that blue-eyed people are better than brown-eyed people (Peters & Cobb, 1985).

Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience (Kassin, Fein, & Markus, 2014). This is seen when Elliot explains the blue-eyed students to be dominant over the brown- eyed students. Elliott points out how much time brown-eyed students take to complete tasks, how ill-prepared they are, how they don’t take things seriously

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