Thursday, September 11, 2008
Our experiences of the Blue Eye - Brown Eye Experience
8G and 8H joined together to watch 'The Australian Eye,' a documentary about discrimination based on eye colour. This documentary formed the basis of our own experiment of the blue-eye/brown eye lesson. We each had different experiences and gained different lessons from this role play. This blog posting is a place for us to reflect on what happened and how we feel about this.
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I was angry.
Blues eyes ftw!
I thought this was a really great thing to do, it showed us how bad racism really is and what it was like to be on the receiving end of racism.
One problem with the activity was that we all knew what Miss A was doing so most of us did not take it seriously which made it not as good, it would have been better if she had done it before we had watched the video.
This was lots of fun it was really funny when some people (Ella) got REALLY, REALLY angry grrrrrr.
Blue eyes Brown eyes was a really good experience because it really taught you to recognize racism and how it feels to be discriminated like black people get alot of the time
It was good to experience how people may feel to be discriminated by others.
The Blue eye experiment would have been good if people had have just played along a little bit because as soon as the Blue eyes had to sit on the floor everyone went phyco. Then we weren't able to do the rest of the experiment. But i think it would have been good fun.
Once i realized it was about racism, which did take me some time i now know how the 'black' people have been treated. Because if us 'white' people were treated that way (like the sitting on the floor activity) we would have acted up us as the 'black' people did during this time.
Cheers,
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