Brown Eyes Vs Blue Eyes Experiment

Sexuality and gender identities are also the victims of media misinformation and are often misunderstood by the public because of such. There are also numerous accounts of journalists using improper and incorrect phrases to report on transgender issues (such as inaccurate pronouns or false comments which label sexuality/gender identity as a choice). Jay Poole accurately describes the methods that the mainstream media uses in defining identity when he states that “media representations of identities are dominantly constructed through a heteronormative lens, with traditional gender roles defining how one can or should be masculine or feminine” (279). This not only misconstrues the reality of gender identities but it also misguides children and

One famous experiment conducted by teacher Jane Elliot still provides an excellent example of the behaviorisms behind discrimination, racism in particular. In her Brown Eyes vs. Blue Eyes experiment, Elliot put her students through an exercise which forced them to open their eyes to the pains of the victims of discrimination and to be more sympathetic and aware of their plights. She has conducted the experiments many times with elementary and college students and has found that the exercise works because the participants have reacted in a way that proves that they have learned how discrimination can negatively affect its victims (Elliot 1). Children exposed to the exercise wrote that "the kids with blue eyes got to discriminate against the people with brown eyes. I have brown eyes and I felt like hitting them if I wanted to." (Elliot 1). One student even wrote that they felt like dropping out of school after learning what it was like to be discriminated against. School has always played an important part in students developing their identities; however, such a process can be subjected to unnecessary compromise and alteration through the literary practices of the education system (Huang 329). When students are exposed to a biased schooling, they are unable to develop their own opinions and ideas, restricting their potential and

Every journalist, writer, or news host must make the crucial decision in where to draw the line amidst opinions and neutrality. It is difficult to know where one should disconnect themselves from the information and stories they are releasing to the public. The goal of the press is to retell a story, checking all the facts, but still showing some inkling of care and emotion. Humans aren’t perfect and that makes this goal even more impossible to achieve. However, the world isn’t perfect either. We are not fixing the conflict that innocent Syrian citizens are facing by spreading false information. We are not ending world hunger by causing waves of panicked nationalism. Racism, sexism, homophobia: none can go away until we can learn how to think for ourselves instead of relying on whatever we hear on the television. As written in an article in America, “At worst ‘America First’ is a serious threat to the international solidarity that lasting peace and justice require. Our brothers and sisters live not only within our borders but across the world” (8). We cannot blindly trust what we are told in the media if it forgets the other people struggling in the world. Not everything is fixable but real problems like discrimination, climate change, and world poverty won’t just disappear if we sink into an isolationist and ignorant state of over