While watching A Class Divided it gave me an insight to how prejudice people really can be. It's not the fact that someone is better than another, but whenever someone with more authority makes a rule or a judgement and others follow it, is when problems start beginning.
Once Mrs. Jane Elliot created the rule that blue eyed people are greater than brown eyed people it created an outstanding amount of controversy. The third graders began being mean and spiteful towards one another if they didn't have the same eye color; even though just the day before eye color wasn't an issue or even thought about.
It's amazing how much a person with more influence can completely manipulate people to think in different ways without even realizing that the person is changing the way they think and believe in things.
I truly believe that this lesson should be taught to all people. Even though America doesn't have as many racial prejudice's today, doesn't change the fact that it should be taught. Not only does it teach against prejudice's, but it also allows people to experience being judged harshly and differently. Which allows people to see that they need to treat others the same way they want to be treated.
It all comes back to the golden rule that everyone should live by.
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