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Dagobah Resident
Are we all more racist than we realise or would like to admit?
For this Channel 4 documentary Jane Elliott, a controversial former schoolteacher from Ohio, is recreating the shocking exercise she used forty years ago to teach her nine year-old pupils about prejudice.
Elliott is asking thirty adult British volunteers - men and women of different ages and backgrounds - to experience inequality based on their eye colour to show how susceptible we can all be to bigotry, and what it feels like to be on the other side of arbitrary discrimination.
Does Elliott's exercise still have something to teach us four decades on and in a different country? Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the exercise is observed throughout by two expert psychologists, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Funké Baffour, who will be unpicking the behaviour on display.
First shown on Channel 4, Thursday 29 October 2009.
Firstly, I did a search and didn't find anything on the forum. Secondly I watched this when it first aired and I wanted to refer to it sometime last year on the forum, I never caught the name, and I didn't really know how to use YouTube till last year... oi, stop laughing! Okay now this exercise is pretty simple but it seemed to have taken effect better in other countries such as Australia and America. Well it didn't have the same effect in the UK with the subtle racism that's highly prevalent to anyone "switched on" as it were. This is about power dynamics and of course programming by the system.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYHBrJIIFU
Sorry, I'm not able to do embeds from my end. I thought that this was still interesting even with the knowledge and awareness that I've gained now, and a decent exercise in reading people and situations, paramoralisms, paralogistics etc. Watch out for the schoolteacher and her comments, (the black or mixed race child and their cut) at the time I watched it I wanted to hurl the telly out of the window! Mainly as I know LOADS of that type of woman growing up and some now still.