Brown Eye Blue Eye

This is a nice program which talks about discrimination. I highly recommend to all of you.
I know people will never understand the impact of discrimination until once they being discriminated against. I do hope by watching this program, all of us can think about ourselves, think about how we generalize people by their appearances, races... etc.

This program is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html

Chapter 1 The Daring Lesson
Jane Elliott divides her 3rd graders into blue and brown-eyed groups. She tells the blue-eyes they are "the better people in this room," gives them privileges and comments on their superiority all day. The brown eyes must wear collars.

Chapter 2 Day Two
Today, roles are reversed. Elliott says she lied and that "the truth is that brown-eyed people are better than blue-eyed people." On this day the brown eyes score higher on a test compared to the previous day when they were "inferior."

Chapter 3 14 Years Later...
At a special reunion in 1984, Elliott's former students watch the original 1970 film of themselves as 3rd graders and talk about the effect her lesson has had on their lives.

Chapter 4 Teaching It to Adults
Jane Elliott is hired to give her "brown eyes-blue eyes" lesson to employees of Iowa's Corrections Department. She quickly succeeds in confusing, angering and upsetting them.

Chapter 5 How the Adults Reacted
Elliott continues to demean and antagonize the "inferior" blue-eyed employees and some strike back. Later, during their debriefing, all the employees analyze what happened to them.