SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cultural Mosaic, Ethnic Group, Imagined Community
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You can change people"s behaviour and thinking by changing their social roles. Though everyone can imagine being treated like an inferior, few know what it feels like or the kinds of psychological, emotional, and social effects this treatment might have. Inspired by the aboriginal saying oh, great spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until i have walked a mile in his moccasins . Felt her third grade class had no clear understanding of discrimination from personal experience. Only know of black people by what they hear adults say. To teach her children the arbitrary nature of the differences that divide humans. The brown-eyed children were not good enough to play with the blue-eyed children. She used pseudo-scientific explanations that stated the melanin responsible for making blue eyes was also linked to higher intelligence and better learning ability. She watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third graders within 15 minutes.
