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ReikoDemosthenes
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I just saw this film in class and found it absolutely fascinating. For those who haven't seen it, it's an experiment done by a third grade teacher with her class in which she divided the class into blue eyes and brown eyes. The first day the blue eyes were treated as more intelligent, more proper, and generally better than the brown eyes. The second day the brown eyes were the better ones. Apparently it took all of fifteen minutes for these children to go from being pleasent people to small monsters. I found it a very interesting approach to teaching awareness of racism.

[ April 06, 2005, 03:13 AM: Message edited by: ReikoDemosthenes ]

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Oh, yes, I have heard of this. And in the Alice series they did something simular involving circles and things and hair colour. It was interesting.
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A teacher in my elementary school did something like that, but it never got beyond the playacting stage.
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ReikoDemosthenes
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This teacher only ran it for two days and then put them all back on the same level and asked them what happened. Later in the show they showed a class reunion of sorts in which they recalled the experiment where they said how they those two days affected their perception throughout their lives.
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Orson Scott Card
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OK, here's the new game on Hatrack. For two days, never respond in any way to a post by someone whose screenname starts with a letter between L and P.

Oh, wait ... no ... I meant ...

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rivka
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So those of us who call you Scott or Dude are unaffected?
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No, he said screenname. So if he starts posting under "Dude" or "ScottDude", he'll be unaffected, but otherwise, you just broke the rule! [Wink]
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Verily the Younger
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So did you. [Laugh]

Wait . . . so did I. [Eek!]

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Orson Scott Card
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Thank heaven ratraquenhos are so disobedient.
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rivka
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[Taunt]
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Verily the Younger
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Oooh, "ratraquenho". I like that one. Better than "ratraquero".

(Unless, you know, "o quenho" is Portuguese for "the sheep" or "the toilet brush", or something.)

[ April 06, 2005, 01:34 AM: Message edited by: Verily the Younger ]

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Ryuko
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Civil disobedience!

(knocks over trash can)

(skitters away)

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Lyrhawn
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So technically would I be allowed to respond to myself just for the sake of being responded to?

Or by responding to myself is that technically against the rules?

Then again, none of you can answer my questions since I'm an L, and thus this post has become entirely rhetorical...

Hmm....

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Stan the man
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Responding to yourself requires a doctor when it becomes a full conversation.

I don't make the rules, I just break them.

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Raia
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Oh, I heard about this, but I haven't seen it!

I thought the idea was very interesting, though traumatic to the poor children. But I'd definitely like to see it at one point.

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*nit pick*

quote:
The first day the blue eyes were treated as more intelligent, more proper, and generally better than the blue eyes.

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ReikoDemosthenes
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*facedesk*

*edits*

thanks for letting me know [Smile]

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Orson Scott Card
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But I thought that was the point - to induce multiple personality disorder in the children.
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Elizabeth
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What did the teacher do with children with green or hazel eyes? How eyeist of her not to include them.
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I had a high school sociology teacher do something like that. She did light hair vs. dark hair. It only lasted for about half the class, then we talked about what happend. It was an interesting experience.
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Elizabeth, I would have gone for eyelitist. [Razz]
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TMedina
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You guys are just being eyeful.

Can these puns get much cornea?

-Trevor

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That was a cornea bit of aqueous humor. Eye'm appalled.

Edit: *Lashes out at Trevor*

[ April 06, 2005, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: advice for robots ]

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TMedina
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Iris you hadn't done that.

-Trevor

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Belle
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30 lashes for you all.
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Verily the Younger
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Would you all just put a lid on it? [Roll Eyes]
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TMedina
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Belle, it was so kind of you to bat those lashes for us.

-Trevor

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Those have to be the cornea-st puns I've ever seen.
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Elizabeth
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Thank you, KQ. It is always fun when someone lens me one of their puns. It is a good solution for making contact with me, for sure.
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no. 6
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It hurts my eyes everytime I come into this thread to read it! It lacks true vision!
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Elizabeth
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What a myopic view of life you have, no.6!
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No, he's right.

I bawl every time I see this thread.

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What you say is true. I've merely been blinded by your brilliance.
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I saw this a few years ago at AGS...apparently, the woman is still alive and goes around to college campuses giving guest lectures where she does the same thing--she was much more relentless with college students than with small children.
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She's actually coming to my college sometime next week.

Hm. I might just have to check that out.

On the other hand, since I have brown eyes... eh, maybe not.

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*groan* You guys are so punny!

I think I might have to see this movie sometime... sounds really interesting.

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Elizabeth
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I did a simulation basedon Ancient Roman class structure that was sort of like this. Some kids were the leaders, some were merchants, some were slaves. It was amazing how quickly those leaders started to lord it over the others.
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TMedina
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Stanford Prison Experiment

I've read one or two articles concerning similar studies with comparable results.

-Trevor

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Elizabeth
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So, is this woman claiming she is the only teacher to have tried this? Simulations like this have been done for years.
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I think all the puns have scrambled my brain. I'm having trouble focusing on anything.
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ReikoDemosthenes
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Well, she started doing it the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assasignated, so if she wasn't the first, she was probably one of the first. At any rate, when it hit the news it was her class.
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starlooker, it sounds like a pretty good experience, but the clip I saw drew racial boundaries and had people of color in the priveleged half. One girl couldn't take it and left in the middle of it.
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