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Jane Elliot Reflection
This was a very interesting lesson from the viewpoint of the study of racism. I am very surprised that an elementary school teacher thought of such an emotionally complex lesson. The teacher, Jane Elliot discovered that ultimately racism boils down to an unjustified dislike or hatred of a person based on something that does not truly make people different, such as skin color. In trying to explain this to her students, she came up with a simple yet unbelievably effective exercise made to teach a lesson by separating the students according to their eye color. Having her students separate according their eye color, Jane Elliot created an artificial segregation by making one group “better/superior” than the other because those students trusted
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