http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/script.html
In this article it talks about a third grade teacher teaching her students about discrimination. By doing this she tells the class that blue-eyed people are superior and smarter, then next day she switches it to it being brown-eyed people being superior and smarter. Within minutes her students have completely changed the way they look at one another. I chose is article because I think it shows a representation of discrimination and even know its not gender related it can still fit into the topic because it still shows how manipulated one is by simply something someone says bout another person or group of people. I just liked the way the teacher showed exactly how bad it can really be, and how it can hurt a person. Just like when males are treated better then females. When the children began to think they are doing well in class because of their eye color and because the teacher says they are s,after it kind of relates to a male being called s,after then a female because he is male. It happens more then we know it.
Cassie,
ReplyDeleteI think to connection you are making here is a good one. It is a psychological game. This can apply not only to physical discrimination and feelings of superiority, but gender superiority as well. If you are told, from a young age, that you are contributor of society regardless of your gender then perhaps you would not see gender as an inhibitor in life? Lets explore this idea...
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