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CLASS DIVIDED
After watching the video A Class Divided, there are a few things that jumped out at m. The questionable ethics of the experiment and the blatant discrimination that occurred was used as a learning tool. the use of these questionable methods were an attempt to illuminate a dark area of social learning an understanding while trying to break the bonds of racism and prejudice. The results call to light human nature and the effects of racial inequity. The videos were broken into parts and the parts consisted of the teacher showing and telling the students about discrimination the day after the assignation of martin Luther king Jr.
She broke the students into groups and told them one was blue eyes and one was brown eyes. She then proceeded to tell the blue eye group of students that they were superior to the brown eye group of students, and that the brown eye students could get on the playground and had to come in early and couldn’t eat. Then on the next day the brown eye group was superior and got to play on the playground extra and could go eat food. And at the end of the week the teacher talked to the students about what happened and see how they liked getting the treatment they received.

The definition of ethics is moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of questions of right and wrong and how we ought to live. What ethics really in tells is making moral judgments about what is right and what is wrong. When dealing with this experiment I think it was ethical because to me it taught a valuable lesson that people should learn and that is not to treat people different just because of the color of their skin. Some people might think that the problems with the ethics of this experiment, would be that the children that was in this experiment were not old enough to really grasp what was going on even though the teacher tried to explain it the best she could so that the children could understand it. They see it as ( as in

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