Reaction To The Monkey's Experiment Genogram

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1.What are your reactions to the video?
• I am shocked at how the people in this experiment, actually learned from it. I did not think that they were going to take anything from this experiment and apply it to their own lives. I did not enjoy listening to the things that the parents have taught their children in that time, but I am most grateful that there had been a teacher such as herself who wanted to teach the little ones the right way.
2. What aspect of the video impacted you the most? Why do you think it had the impact it did?
• What impacted me most, the adult experiment. It is easy to teach a child who is still in a developmental change to treat others fairly, but seeing adult et beside themselves because the shoe was on the other …show more content…

Explain.
• I felt a bit angered and testy, because once I understood the goal of the experiment, I was disappointed in how the one lady in the last to segments acted towards the instructor, but in the end acted as though it did not matter that she was going through what she was going through, everyone has been discriminated before and I felt that she was saying that we all should just live with it and deal with it on our own. By her response and others sitting with her, I felt the brown eyed people still put themselves in the blue eyed people’s shoes and learned more from the lesson.
4. What similarities exist between racism in the time the original video (of the school children) was filmed and how, right here in North Carolina, we treat members of the Hispanic population? Gays/Lesbians? Muslims? What can we learn from the video about our treatment of these groups?
• Taking advice from these segments, I know I would never want to make someone feel less than what they are, nor make them feel like they are anything but a human being. Learning from this video that no one should be treated differently, picked on, exiled, and all things demoralizing because of their skin color and