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If you have never heard of Jane Elliott, please take one hour (come on, what else can you do in one hour anyway ? Can't you eat in front of the computer or something ?) and watch this video :
I swear it is worth the trouble. I'll go as far as saying this video should be spread and watched by absolutely everyone.
And in case you'd think it's some old documentary with no link to the present or you'd just want to know more, check this and this out.
Jane Elliott is a hero.
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The worse being that adults are just slightly harder to manipulate and apparently for just one reason : they already had been told that color of the eyes is irrelevant to personality... I suspect that if she used astrological sign or blood type, adults would react with the same speed as children...
Which means that discrimination is grounless in that it doesn't need real facts of any kind to grow : it feeds itself on its own consequences...
"I'm afraid that in our so "civilized" capitalistic society we're just discriminating more and more people..."
Divide and conquer.
It's clearly advantageous for people in power to nurture discrimination... The less united the people are, the easier you can handle them.
"Lots of people should watch this video."
Thanks, I think so too.
Let's spread the word. It's the least we can do ;)