This video made its rounds on social media recently. I saw a version of this experiment on Oprah a couple of decades ago and it shocked how quickly people can learn to discriminate against other people who are different from them. I didn't realize until recently that this experiment, developed and run by diversity expert Jane Elliott, has been around since the late 1960s.
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This experiment is so powerful that it will take an entire dissertation for me to write about what my thoughts on it. Instead, let me quote/paraprhase one of the top comments posted on this video by :
At 1:30, Mrs. Elliott begins a study that will be talked about for years.
At 3:00, she re-creates segregation and racism in her classroom.
At 7:45, she flips the entire class on their heads.
At 10:00, Jane Elliot shares a very profound discovery.
At 11:43, the students learn something that the world is still struggling to.
Amazing.
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