Stereotypes Vs. Brown Eyed Students

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For this activity, the class was divided into two groups. One group being kids with blue eyes and the other being kids with brown eyes. The brown eyed kids were told to be the better group in behavior, athleticism, and smarts. This left the blue eyed kids as the inferior group. The brown eyed kids also had privileges that the blue eyed kids didn’t. They were allowed to use the bathroom, get a drink from the water fountain, and use class materials, while the brown eyed kids were given consent to all of them. The benefits of the brown eyed kids caused tension between the two groups for the duration of the class. Since I have brown eyes, I was put in the group with all the other kids with brown eyes. The rules of my group were easily adopted,

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