except they weren't.. to do an 'experiment' with kids is wrong on so many levels.. ppls only takeaway on this is that it was white parents that called and were upset.. children are protected for a reason.. you can educate children pretty easily without putting them in a dangerous social 'experiment', because children are VERY impressionable in school since teachers are the authority and the children accept it because their parents tell them that.. this woman should have been fired, but she wasn't because she was a white woman championing the cause for the black side of racism.. I don't care for racism myself and think it's so stupid, but I would NEVER put young impressionable minds in a dangerous experiment like this.. and no, it is not 'dangerous' to me because brown eyed kids were considered better.. it is dangerous because it promoted the same exact problem found later in life because of ignorant ppl.. and that is what she did, just created ignorant thought processes in young minds for an experimental purpose.. some of the children probably got it, but I know that some children didn't.. why do I know this? because humans minds work that way, and they don't accept everything told or shown to them.. they turn more hateful, depressed, or bitter.. but maybe you and others think those children don't matter.. for me all children matter, so their minds shouldn't be forced into an experiment by a teacher that apparently wasn't screened well enough.. she was only lucky something worse didn't happen in the classroom
Maybe the class topper of that class was a brown-eyed kid, it's just more likely because brown eyed kids outnumbered the blue eyed kids. Edit:- One student asked her how she was the teacher when she herself had blue eyes, then you heard what excuse the brown-eyed kids came up with.
Our entire behavior is influenced by society. Different upbringings, created by societal standards and functions, create drastically different people; different schools and curriculum give them different views of the world, based on what version of history they are taught, which influences what kind of people become the leaders in society. Societal norms directly contribute to how a person acts in their daily life. Some people are aware of this, and use it to their advantage to shift the population into their beliefs.
@@SleepiAbyss from an evolutionary perspective, the nature of humanity is the cause of much of what has become of society. It is only because of the opportunities that the eventual safety in numbers resulted in deeper contemplation and evaluation of what could be that we ended up “progressing” (to a certain degree) to the point where we have societal norms that ought to be called into question
@@zacariasnelson5753 I suppose you're right, humans are social animals. And human gatherings, e.g. societies have been around a long while. Interesting to think about.
It should be common sense by now that making people focus on differences in a negative manner causes disharmony and increases the possibility of violence.
@@tumultuousv Nah, my government (current administration at least) would rather we not think of fighting or violence in general. Instead they'd rather we (the locals) buy more stuff, watch more entertainment media, and ignore the fact that many of the powerful families who rule my country have been doing so since our country's colonial era. It's a bit of a different situation from what's going on in the west. They tried identity politics for a short bit but didn't like it. Our country isn't suited for that and it would backfire on them eventually.
I have something called heterochromia, it means that my eyes are multicoloured, blue and brown. I wonder what would've happened if I was in this experiment.
The ancient prophecy: Once a man with twice colored eyes doth appear He will split the masses and stand before prejudice from both If he withstands we are forever changed If he falters we remain as we are forever
She could have given you similar privileges to the brown eyed kids. The brown eyed kids would probably question how your eye color influenced your intelligence, since they thought blue eyes were naturally less smart, and the blue eyed kids would probably be jealous of your brown eyed privileges. So youd be accepted on neither side. Probably the same situation as what happened to people with mixed skin color
I remember participating in this in the early '70s I did not have blue eyes nor did I have brown eyes I had Hazel eyes and I am Hispanic, I can honestly say that kids did turn violent, both groups made me a pariah, and they're bad behavior didn't quit after the exercise was over. There was one little girl in my class by the name of crystal she would watch out for me after that, nobody messed with her because she had older brothers, they would watch out for me on the playground and walk me home from school, she was the only black girl and I was the only Latino, we were friends for years
@@tuetoburger I’m more surprised on a video released a year ago with only 4,000 views there are three people commenting on the same comment released 8 months ago in the same couple hours.
They tried this experiment in my school. The green eyed Polish kid and me (a blue eyed kid) led a revolt, in which we basically stormed the class, said we were in charge, and then we just ruled the class for an hour. Two girls beat the living shit out of some brown eyed kid. So then they had to come in and tell us that in fact everyone was equal and we should be nice to eachother. That Polish kid is now one of my best friends and a dedicated Trotskyite.
While I most certainly find this all interesting, I find it odd that many people are saying this should be mandatory in schools. That is not at all the case; imagine how damaging these experiences could be to a child's confidence, their personality, their skills, and such. This experiment was good to try, and try again perhaps, though I see it as something along the lines of a necessary evil. This experience has practical value for the kids involved, yes, but so many wrong lessons could be learnt, or children harmed in the process; I just think people shouldn't be so quick to accept something like this as the ideal. After all, blind acceptance was what caused the hostilities between the children, and it can cause many problems for adults, too. There is always a price to pay for knowledge, but it is important to make certain that the price is affordable before you pay it, so to speak.
You mean a useless experiment that was made a lot of time that ended up in the same result causing damages to children's childhood and personality just for the sake of: "let's see what happens..." For 10 times or more ? Oh wait, a toxic teaching for the sake of what they consider "ideal reality " or "good man" ? Just as toxic relationship were idealized for the creating of a "strong men" ? In the end: this seems just like an other way to impose your view of the world and interpretation as a solid rule than in fact an experiment.
@@lefishe6611 I don't know if it should be forbidden but I definitely think it was inappropriate for class of third graders. She was their authority figure that they trusted, so of course they would blindly accept what she told them.
School did this with my class too. Put stars on a small portion of the class. We weren't allowed to learn in the classes and had to sit on the floor in the corner. After parents found out they put a quick stop to it.
We humans all have potentials to become Hitlers and Stalins, but lack of power and fear of death stops most of us from becoming one. It's a sad truth of humanity. Humans and chimps are evolutionary self centered and selfish
@@Lambchop317 Children are evil little creatures. They have no filters, and can pick up any habits just from a trusted adult teaching them these habits, and often go out of their way to break rules.
I have the vivid memory of being a kid in kindergarten and early primary school and, as is common for Somali people in Kenya, I had a house name and a more common sounding name for school. As a child, I made the connection that my school name sounded like the Swahili word for 'crying' and I decided to go by my house name exclusively. As a little kindergarten kid, I made the connection that my peers would bully for being a crybaby by using my school name, so I did my best to keep it away from them. Despite the fact that I wasn't being bullied at all in class, I just came to the conclusion that I shouldn't give anyone ammunition against me. What does that say?
at 3:04 as a blue eyed person I felt that personally. I sit around all day, I don't remember what I learn (I'd fail a test from last year), and I swear everything I touch just breaks. This computer has lasted all of two weeks and it's already malfunctioning to some degree
@@scazab6408 lucky because of their eye color? what are you on about 😂 plus contacts exist and you can just wear contacts with a different color so you and you can also tattoo your eyes so..
I was in* an experiment like this in my own school. But when I told the teachers I was being picked on, they simply looked at my skin and said 'that can't be'. To this day ppl look at me and assume I look at them as tho they are inferior, they look at me and assume all sorts of nasty things. If I so much as smile or sneeze. *Et all, This goes both ways, it goes all ways,* and until we learn that only criteria should be 'r u human' until we learn not to judge the book by its cover.
Though these roles have now been flipped in modern times, discrimination is still a horrible thing, no matter who is causing it, and who is suffering it.
Discrimination happens for MANY REASONS, not just race. I've faced discrimination for being a graduate of an inferior university instead of an ivy league or top business school. In sports I was discriminated against for not being part of the dad's coaching clique or an outsider from the team (we frequently moved when I was young). In church I was discriminated against for forming my own opinions about what I saw in the scriptures. In high school, I was discriminated against for being younger than my peers and therefore less emotionally and physically mature (my parents advanced me educationally at a young age). In all of these cases I had to overcome the circumstances. NOBODY CARED. I had to learn to stop waiting for them to start caring. 1. it won't happen. 2. if it does happen, THAT PERSON will then start to be discriminated against, so it won't last. Instead, I overcame discrimination by outperforming my peers. I have a choice of conforming or performing. LOWERING the standard doesn't work.
I remember our teacher doing this with us in 2012. I think I was in 5th grade. I have blue eyes and our teacher did it the same way the first experiment was done, which was that blue eyes were the "segregated ones". I remember being sat in the back of the room while everyone else was allowed to sit at their desks and got candy & where told they didn't have to do homework etc. It was demoralizing and unfair to the point where my 10 year old self began to slowly and quietly cry in the corner after just 30 minutes or so. I'm glad my teacher took it to that extreme because that stuck with me and is the base of what I use to step back and rationalize what discrimination and hate towards another group of people is... pointless and without grounds. Now I'm 21, i'm so glad I was put into that "discriminated" part of the class because, if even for just under an hour, I got to experience the power of hate and discrimination first hand and why no one should ever have to go through something like that.
So you being woke is because you were denied candy in class one time and totally not because it is the dominant ideology of liberalism/capitalism Right
literally, when my class did this, I got an even weirder result which still feels relevant my eyes didnt match either and i was stuck flip flopping they didnt do all of this but just a single class period questionnaire
@@loritaobijiaku9232 maybe 5th grade but the other kids were too young. If you read some of these comments some kids continued to do these things after the experiment was over, when they previously weren't doing any of that.
@@loritaobijiaku9232 just because it happens to one group of people doesn't mean it should happen to a different group, we should try and solve the problem and not make more children suffer
@@lilglitchboi7259 did you even ready my comment? I don't think we can solve bullying WITH MORE BULLYING! we should try and stop it not case more of it also black kids shouldn't have to be "accustomed" to it, I think we can both agree how messed up it is to say that, I don't get how someone could even think that is a good reason as of why teacher shouldn't have done the experiment
This doesn't work. People of all ethnicities and backgrounds are bullied for all types of things. Purposefully breeding division within a classroom will only separate the students long term. Children do not turn that sentiment off once you teach them to distrust one another. They're not yet mature enough to completely emotionally understand a social experiment. This was incredibly psychologically inadvisable, especially since she did not have parental permission, nor anyway to meaningfully follow up with the students (actually now, subjects) long-term. What would have been better is to have asked the class when they were bullied and for what reason and ask other students to empathize. Internal self-reflection and human connection is the solution to social division, not artifical division!! She sought out not understanding, but division and got it. For no reason! Shame on this teacher!
The point was to create division. This is something that is extremely common in the schools nowadays but was very much still present back then as well. The denial of biological race, and the choice to weaponize it is not a healthy path to go towards.
i thought that it was a bit cruel to experiment on children because they would keep the aftermath of the experiment forever but I felt horrified and mortified on how the emphasis was on "white children". I felt my skin crawling. I thought people knew better but it was just a further statement to racism.
You notice the brown eyed people who supposedly face discrimination outside of the experiment had no problem discriminating but the blue eyed people were reluctant. That's a key difference in behavior this experiment exposed that nobody talks about.
@@JohnDoe-og2bt your statement implied it, there was no mention of the Brown eyed kids facing any discrimination outside of the experiment. Sorry if I got it wrong
Simple, they were reluctant because they experienced discrimination. I don't know what you meant with your comment, but it looks like you failed to use logic.
Our teacher did a similar experiment. I suppose it must have been the THING to do back in the day. Even though we were all quite young, I remember wondering why all these sheep were buying into such a ridiculous idea about inequality. I was raised in a good home were inequality was thought of as the domain of uneducated people; I feel sad for people who judge others based on differences.
But teenage students developed critical thinking skills and can catch bullshit when they see it. The lesson means nothing because they don't believe it.
@@burnttoast.2017 no, that's not it. Most teenagers nowadays understand what the lessob is trying to teach and agree with it. My main concern is that younger teenagers and children will see this activity as a way of bullying other kids or possibly building internalised hatred towards others if they are a member of a minority group.
@@stuffynosepatrolyes, but they teacher stepped in and clearly let them know that they’re behavior was wrong. Young minds are still developing but having a bit of an immersive experiment like this is actually doing more good than bad. While it might be “traumatizing” for the moment, it will show them how to treat other the way they want to be treated
I really enjoy your videos and information. The way you keep the pacing and the occasional foley and tones. On the subject of this lesson I believe it is flawed. There are a few variables that are missing. Possibly due to the parameters the lesson has. One factor it seems to always miss is the unification of a small group within that can upset the system. I believe for discrimination to work individuals must be made to suffer alone and reintroduced to the marginalized group. Otherwise, strengthening even a small number of the said to be lesser group can end the power of the said to be greater. The problem with this little experiment is that is little to no resistance with the marginalized group. They just accept what they are told to be. It is almost like she is teaching that the said to be inferior group is in FACT inferior. Which we know her end game so this is false. If it is not false then well, I suppose that is a whole argument no one wants to have.
Given the circumstances laid out in the beginning I don't think this experiment was the most thought out. Additionally, these are third grade school children; I don't think much complexity could have been extracted from this in the end. In a setting with more developed children, let's say sixth and up, a lot more could have been learned; take for example the Third Wave experiment that explores how easily people can bend to expectations and pressures from those who have power (at least, that's what I took from it). This experiment was certainly flawed, of course, and harmful, but at the same time valuable. Whether the harm outweighs the value should be decided on an individual basis.
Human minds are nothing bt mere expressions of themself..the one who see pasts this are the ones enlightened..and they wont take the word "SPECIAL" for granted
This continues to be a perfect representation for today. When the role was switched the following day- it didn’t solve anything either as it hasn’t the day previous when the experiment began. Today white people are being discriminated against like black people were and it’s getting worse. Discrimination is horrible, but discriminating back doesn’t solve anything.
white people are not being discriminated against like black people at all, black people not only faced discrimination but cruelty which white people have not faced anywhere in the modern day.
I think this is kind of messed up , like these poor kids had to suffer through bullying and for weeks, like they probably needed so much therapy after this
This still happens in the form of pretty privilege The prettier ones gets all the respect, appreciation and everyone understands them, making their confidence go up and up, and sometimes also making them overconfident While the kids who aren't percieved pretty are treated the worst, they struggle to have a self esteem
It's bad, but to be fair it is rooted in science. Pretty people are most likely to be healthy and thus produce healthier children. That's why people fixate towards pretty people.
@@Rikken552 i agree, but we need to work on that cuz we don't reproduce with everyone, only one person in our life needs to fit that standard ie our life partner Just because it's our biological trait doesn't mean doing it in extreme makes it right Like it's in our blood to reproduce, but if each household produced 10+ kids all over the world, we'd out of resources. So sometimes we have to stop listening to our biological programming
Hm... I like to read into occult, but i like to call the sudden increase of grades "beyond established capabilities" as being "boosted". I like to do this where i can, but I'm mostly an honest guy. Being "boosted" works for groups with similar peers like: Families, Race, Genders, Cultures, Location etc. You can be "boosted" or not be boosted.
What about hazel eyes? I have them and they can change to vivid green for long periods of time. (And have an orange band of color near my pupil for some reason)
5:32 which makes the idea of retribution against white people these days fascinating, often referred to as reparations, how I'm starting to see it be normalized for "minorities," aka people who aren't white in terms of race, to be racist/prejudiced/discriminatory to white people, especially with concepts based around once legal acts like affirmative action. *just to add, the whole idea of reparations is absolutely ridiculous. being born with light skin doesn't mean you support anything like the concept of slavery, nor does it mean you deserve to be treated like you do just because some people in your ancestry believed that, or some people in the past or even the present with the same skin color as you believe in racism towards non-whites. the whole idea of reparations is ironically racist, redundant and hypocritical, absolutely useless, and reinforces unnecessary discrimination. no one who conducted slavery or harsh segregation or racial ridicule towards black people back in the day is alive, so who is gonna be reparated? exactly.
as a blue eyed person, I thought "this is such a cruel experiment" then had to remind myself a lot of black people go through this everyday and I realized I really need to keep my white-privileged ass in check 😭 (like a minute later 7:39 expressed my exact thoughts lol). throughout my life I've experienced my fair share of discrimination due to being queer but I can't imagine how horrible it would be being hated on for something you cannot hide
You were taught to hate yourself weren't you? Your skin color means nothing about your personality anyone who says so is a idiot controlling narsisic and a poison
You are currently hated in the western society the most, and only your men face even more hatred alongside actual systemic discrimination so it shouldn't be that hard to relate. Of course, in all reality you probably aren't White.
@@lilglitchboi7259 the green eyes would... like he said, be neutral. There eye color doesn't make them smarter or dumber. Try again. Your argument is ineffective
Y’all saying “it’s cruel to do this to children, they’re only in third grade!” Imagine how little black kids felt they went through this sh!t everyday (and a lot still do) and were seen like this by white ADULTS much less other white kids
We did this in my class in 5th grade during 2018. It was very different. My teacher wanted us to on learn about slavery to see how people would understand. I will say it was sad but very interesting. One if the kids next to me was very racist to the kid across for me I told him out he didn’t like that very much. But later he was suspended.
Both groups started equally, and the change of "rule" was abrupt. Give the brown eye kids some time and they'll start acting the same as the top of the chain.
@@tophatcat1173 these are god damn third graders theres nothing to learn, this is potentially psychologically harmful making a third grader cry probably wont make them learn the theme they're crying about if you dont explain to them what it even is she justified her method through self-righteous indignation but by any other metric it is vindictive and both groups started equally + the abrupt change of rule will make probably both groups take some time for it but still at one point forget all of this
@@tophatcat1173 Framed as racism its considered harmful, but discrimination is useful for organization or identification. Maybe the lesson is humans don't like being sorted like their possessions?
I mean giving kids reasons to bully each other and then letting them harass each other doesn't seem like the best thing to me... She literally encouraged fist fights on the school playground after seeing then happening💀. Of course real discrimination was very terrible but I wonder if this actually causes more harm then good.
On one hand, this seems cruel to do this with 3rd graders and it can damage some of the kids relationships. On the other hand, I started to get bullied at 3rd grade because they realised that insults make me cry and they loved making me cry. Children often bully those which are different (in any possible way), so maybe similar excercises could help with this problem ?
I was bullied for being autistic and they made me feel like i wasnt human, so i stopped joining class activities and when teachers noticed, they just isolated me and continued like it wasnt wrong what happened
Yup they love to make those students cry more who cry easily. I was one of those kids who used to cry easily and they started bullying me as they loved and laughed when I used to cry, that extreme bullying made me scared of talking to new people as I thought that if I talk to anyone then it increases the chances of them bullying me as they would know that I cry easily but it also led to them thinking that I am not a normal person and they started making fun of me for this too, now I am 21 and I don't know why but I am still hesitant of talking to new people even though I do not get bullied anymore.
In my 1st grade class, they did something similar. They put us in groups based on our birthdays, then our first initial, then if we had glasses, then our birth day, then our hair and eye color. Things became crazy because certain groups had certain supplies during craft time.
This is like A to M are achievers and likely to succeed while N to Z will most likely fail. My first real name starts with letter U which is Umaverde and having that name already screams dumbass and the teacher had the bright idea to separate everyone in tow groups and we obviously lost our shit because we lost 16 out of 20 games because of our low morale and already not cool composure after that pep talk of first letter in my name. Right now murica land is gonna take a big fat L for ultimately alienating majority of their population which is going to affect everything drastically. You don't divide people to achieve innovation you make people of different backgrounds befriend one another and prohibit any side discriminatory language. That's one way towards creating a utopia like society. People mind their own bizz, no shitholes telling you what you are, try your best to smile even if you don't. All small gestures of good things can spread more good things. I even started a trend of randomly greeting my neighbors and saying thank you and now almost 90% of my neighbors greet each other and says regards with one another.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it's almost as if anger and feeling were a fire reaction: you spark a small flame in a forest and then it generate a reaction that ended up burning the entire forest. Each leaves, each tree become a combustion reaction.
I love how the callers were unknowingly proving her point even more
yeah, idiots
except they weren't.. to do an 'experiment' with kids is wrong on so many levels.. ppls only takeaway on this is that it was white parents that called and were upset.. children are protected for a reason.. you can educate children pretty easily without putting them in a dangerous social 'experiment', because children are VERY impressionable in school since teachers are the authority and the children accept it because their parents tell them that.. this woman should have been fired, but she wasn't because she was a white woman championing the cause for the black side of racism.. I don't care for racism myself and think it's so stupid, but I would NEVER put young impressionable minds in a dangerous experiment like this.. and no, it is not 'dangerous' to me because brown eyed kids were considered better.. it is dangerous because it promoted the same exact problem found later in life because of ignorant ppl.. and that is what she did, just created ignorant thought processes in young minds for an experimental purpose..
some of the children probably got it, but I know that some children didn't.. why do I know this?
because humans minds work that way, and they don't accept everything told or shown to them.. they turn more hateful, depressed, or bitter..
but maybe you and others think those children don't matter.. for me all children matter, so their minds shouldn't be forced into an experiment by a teacher that apparently wasn't screened well enough.. she was only lucky something worse didn't happen in the classroom
nobody cares blacks
duhh
@@8kun973 Big fat L for you bruh
@@8kun973naw
Imagine one of the blue eyed kids just casually refuted her point like “I have the highest grades in the class, you’re wrong”
Probably wouldn’t have worked some kid would have claimed he was cheating or something else that could explain why he has the highest grades
That wouldn't happen cause brown eye people are smarter
@@flyingspinners1 I started writing something about cheating, then saw your comment XD
@@flyingspinners1 no, at the start. Meaning the kids weren't brainwashed yet
Maybe the class topper of that class was a brown-eyed kid, it's just more likely because brown eyed kids outnumbered the blue eyed kids.
Edit:- One student asked her how she was the teacher when she herself had blue eyes, then you heard what excuse the brown-eyed kids came up with.
All these experiments also show how much social expectations and constructs can influence human behaviour. It's intriguing.
Our entire behavior is influenced by society. Different upbringings, created by societal standards and functions, create drastically different people; different schools and curriculum give them different views of the world, based on what version of history they are taught, which influences what kind of people become the leaders in society. Societal norms directly contribute to how a person acts in their daily life. Some people are aware of this, and use it to their advantage to shift the population into their beliefs.
Don’t forget that social constructs began as a facet of nature far before society had even begun to exist
@@zacariasnelson5753 I'm curious, how so?
@@SleepiAbyss from an evolutionary perspective, the nature of humanity is the cause of much of what has become of society. It is only because of the opportunities that the eventual safety in numbers resulted in deeper contemplation and evaluation of what could be that we ended up “progressing” (to a certain degree) to the point where we have societal norms that ought to be called into question
@@zacariasnelson5753 I suppose you're right, humans are social animals. And human gatherings, e.g. societies have been around a long while. Interesting to think about.
It should be common sense by now that making people focus on differences in a negative manner causes disharmony and increases the possibility of violence.
Its what the government wants, my amigo
By keeping us separated and against each other it enables them to remain in power
@@hobomike6935 It's not what my government wants, but the people in my government feel somewhat more secure in their power.
@@niccosalonga9009 isn't it though
@@tumultuousv Nah, my government (current administration at least) would rather we not think of fighting or violence in general. Instead they'd rather we (the locals) buy more stuff, watch more entertainment media, and ignore the fact that many of the powerful families who rule my country have been doing so since our country's colonial era. It's a bit of a different situation from what's going on in the west. They tried identity politics for a short bit but didn't like it. Our country isn't suited for that and it would backfire on them eventually.
@@niccosalonga9009 my country isn’t real
I have something called heterochromia, it means that my eyes are multicoloured, blue and brown. I wonder what would've happened if I was in this experiment.
You're the one to unite them.
You’d be a pariah.
The ancient prophecy:
Once a man with twice colored eyes doth appear
He will split the masses and stand before prejudice from both
If he withstands we are forever changed
If he falters we remain as we are forever
You sat in the middle of the class room with a bag of popcorn and watched it all happen.
She could have given you similar privileges to the brown eyed kids. The brown eyed kids would probably question how your eye color influenced your intelligence, since they thought blue eyes were naturally less smart, and the blue eyed kids would probably be jealous of your brown eyed privileges. So youd be accepted on neither side. Probably the same situation as what happened to people with mixed skin color
I remember participating in this in the early '70s I did not have blue eyes nor did I have brown eyes I had Hazel eyes and I am Hispanic, I can honestly say that kids did turn violent, both groups made me a pariah, and they're bad behavior didn't quit after the exercise was over. There was one little girl in my class by the name of crystal she would watch out for me after that, nobody messed with her because she had older brothers, they would watch out for me on the playground and walk me home from school, she was the only black girl and I was the only Latino, we were friends for years
*their
@@daforkgaming3320 *your mom
@@daforkgaming3320 I'm surprised there are people like me who watch videos and comment on them months or years after the video was released
@@tuetoburger I’m more surprised on a video released a year ago with only 4,000 views there are three people commenting on the same comment released 8 months ago in the same couple hours.
@@dracnoian5327 necroposting moment
That kid saying, if she didn't have blue eyes she'd be the principal or superintendent, is a savage
They tried this experiment in my school. The green eyed Polish kid and me (a blue eyed kid) led a revolt, in which we basically stormed the class, said we were in charge, and then we just ruled the class for an hour.
Two girls beat the living shit out of some brown eyed kid. So then they had to come in and tell us that in fact everyone was equal and we should be nice to eachother. That Polish kid is now one of my best friends and a dedicated Trotskyite.
Funny that the Polish kid is a Trotskyite yet Trotsky’s country literally went to the gates of Warsaw
Yeah it's safe to say that poles don't get along with fascists that well.
"it's just a social experiment bro"
the experiment:
While I most certainly find this all interesting, I find it odd that many people are saying this should be mandatory in schools. That is not at all the case; imagine how damaging these experiences could be to a child's confidence, their personality, their skills, and such. This experiment was good to try, and try again perhaps, though I see it as something along the lines of a necessary evil. This experience has practical value for the kids involved, yes, but so many wrong lessons could be learnt, or children harmed in the process; I just think people shouldn't be so quick to accept something like this as the ideal. After all, blind acceptance was what caused the hostilities between the children, and it can cause many problems for adults, too. There is always a price to pay for knowledge, but it is important to make certain that the price is affordable before you pay it, so to speak.
Mandatory, the hell? This should be forbidden.
You mean a useless experiment that was made a lot of time that ended up in the same result causing damages to children's childhood and personality just for the sake of: "let's see what happens..." For 10 times or more ? Oh wait, a toxic teaching for the sake of what they consider "ideal reality " or "good man" ? Just as toxic relationship were idealized for the creating of a "strong men" ? In the end: this seems just like an other way to impose your view of the world and interpretation as a solid rule than in fact an experiment.
@@lefishe6611 I don't know if it should be forbidden but I definitely think it was inappropriate for class of third graders. She was their authority figure that they trusted, so of course they would blindly accept what she told them.
That's what I was thinking how cruel this is the push this on kids
@@AlphaWolfShade yh it would be better for like 5th or 6th graders
Damn 1922? She's a genius and a time traveler
The fact that not all understand the reference and it has 10 likes in 1 day ain’t bad
School did this with my class too. Put stars on a small portion of the class. We weren't allowed to learn in the classes and had to sit on the floor in the corner. After parents found out they put a quick stop to it.
"aloud" lmao
@@Shvetsario Thanks.
Respect to the parents.
When given ' authority' humans can do cruel things to each other.
when I heard her say lets find out at 1:33 my heart skipped a beat
Those kids understood racism better than most adults everywhere in the world
Kids with green eyes are like: bro you forgot me or what!
Around 7:56 You said {she was on Oprah in 1922} instead of 1992. I don't know if anyone pointed it out to you.. Its still a great video keep it up.
This actually shows the power of suggestion and deception.
When the first kid ask "why did they shoot that king" all I could think of was the fallout new Vegas kings.
This just proves how evil humans are.
We humans all have potentials to become Hitlers and Stalins, but lack of power and fear of death stops most of us from becoming one. It's a sad truth of humanity. Humans and chimps are evolutionary self centered and selfish
*how Evil racism is
they're 3rd graders...
@lambchop exactly
@@Lambchop317 Children are evil little creatures. They have no filters, and can pick up any habits just from a trusted adult teaching them these habits, and often go out of their way to break rules.
I have the vivid memory of being a kid in kindergarten and early primary school and, as is common for Somali people in Kenya, I had a house name and a more common sounding name for school. As a child, I made the connection that my school name sounded like the Swahili word for 'crying' and I decided to go by my house name exclusively. As a little kindergarten kid, I made the connection that my peers would bully for being a crybaby by using my school name, so I did my best to keep it away from them. Despite the fact that I wasn't being bullied at all in class, I just came to the conclusion that I shouldn't give anyone ammunition against me. What does that say?
at 3:04 as a blue eyed person I felt that personally. I sit around all day, I don't remember what I learn (I'd fail a test from last year), and I swear everything I touch just breaks. This computer has lasted all of two weeks and it's already malfunctioning to some degree
It's aight. You'll get a ton of matches at least nowadays. Meanwhile I get called poopy eyes
As a blue eyed person I feel the exact opposite and I also wish I had green eyes.
@@scazab6408 lucky because of their eye color? what are you on about 😂 plus contacts exist and you can just wear contacts with a different color so you and you can also tattoo your eyes so..
@AzureWolf168 True 💀
Well this is unethical. Let’s create psychological trauma in young children by an elementary teacher’s experiment.
With a well done aftermath and discussion it makes them realize what they did to each other, giving them the experience of (being) discriminating
kids are cruel
-Sundowner
as someone with hazel eyes, i see this as a complete W
Bro get a like 👍
Green eyed kids just get their popcorn out while watching
I was in* an experiment like this in my own school. But when I told the teachers I was being picked on, they simply looked at my skin and said 'that can't be'. To this day ppl look at me and assume I look at them as tho they are inferior, they look at me and assume all sorts of nasty things. If I so much as smile or sneeze. *Et all, This goes both ways, it goes all ways,* and until we learn that only criteria should be 'r u human' until we learn not to judge the book by its cover.
So, are you human?
Blue-Eyes White Dragon: hold my white lightning
Though these roles have now been flipped in modern times, discrimination is still a horrible thing, no matter who is causing it, and who is suffering it.
Discrimination happens for MANY REASONS, not just race. I've faced discrimination for being a graduate of an inferior university instead of an ivy league or top business school. In sports I was discriminated against for not being part of the dad's coaching clique or an outsider from the team (we frequently moved when I was young). In church I was discriminated against for forming my own opinions about what I saw in the scriptures. In high school, I was discriminated against for being younger than my peers and therefore less emotionally and physically mature (my parents advanced me educationally at a young age). In all of these cases I had to overcome the circumstances. NOBODY CARED. I had to learn to stop waiting for them to start caring. 1. it won't happen. 2. if it does happen, THAT PERSON will then start to be discriminated against, so it won't last. Instead, I overcame discrimination by outperforming my peers. I have a choice of conforming or performing. LOWERING the standard doesn't work.
I remember our teacher doing this with us in 2012. I think I was in 5th grade. I have blue eyes and our teacher did it the same way the first experiment was done, which was that blue eyes were the "segregated ones". I remember being sat in the back of the room while everyone else was allowed to sit at their desks and got candy & where told they didn't have to do homework etc. It was demoralizing and unfair to the point where my 10 year old self began to slowly and quietly cry in the corner after just 30 minutes or so. I'm glad my teacher took it to that extreme because that stuck with me and is the base of what I use to step back and rationalize what discrimination and hate towards another group of people is... pointless and without grounds. Now I'm 21, i'm so glad I was put into that "discriminated" part of the class because, if even for just under an hour, I got to experience the power of hate and discrimination first hand and why no one should ever have to go through something like that.
So you being woke is because you were denied candy in class one time and totally not because it is the dominant ideology of liberalism/capitalism
Right
What I learn from this is the following thought: when a person has the opportunity to humiliate and oppress his fellow man, he will do it.
This is an excellent social experiment... very revealing.
its evil
@@laoch5658nope
@@laoch5658 racism is evil. thats the point of the experiment.
literally, when my class did this, I got an even weirder result which still feels relevant
my eyes didnt match either and i was stuck flip flopping
they didnt do all of this
but just a single class period questionnaire
Maybe not a good idea to do this experiment with small children 😅...
I don't black kids go through this as kids so... why not?
@@loritaobijiaku9232 maybe 5th grade but the other kids were too young. If you read some of these comments some kids continued to do these things after the experiment was over, when they previously weren't doing any of that.
@@loritaobijiaku9232 just because it happens to one group of people doesn't mean it should happen to a different group, we should try and solve the problem and not make more children suffer
@@lilglitchboi7259 did you even ready my comment? I don't think we can solve bullying WITH MORE BULLYING! we should try and stop it not case more of it
also black kids shouldn't have to be "accustomed" to it, I think we can both agree how messed up it is to say that, I don't get how someone could even think that is a good reason as of why teacher shouldn't have done the experiment
@@loritaobijiaku9232 because this is a classroom. Think
ayo wait till they in college before you do sociology experiments on them 💀💀💀
This doesn't work. People of all ethnicities and backgrounds are bullied for all types of things. Purposefully breeding division within a classroom will only separate the students long term. Children do not turn that sentiment off once you teach them to distrust one another. They're not yet mature enough to completely emotionally understand a social experiment.
This was incredibly psychologically inadvisable, especially since she did not have parental permission, nor anyway to meaningfully follow up with the students (actually now, subjects) long-term.
What would have been better is to have asked the class when they were bullied and for what reason and ask other students to empathize. Internal self-reflection and human connection is the solution to social division, not artifical division!! She sought out not understanding, but division and got it. For no reason! Shame on this teacher!
The point was to create division. This is something that is extremely common in the schools nowadays but was very much still present back then as well. The denial of biological race, and the choice to weaponize it is not a healthy path to go towards.
i thought that it was a bit cruel to experiment on children because they would keep the aftermath of the experiment forever but I felt horrified and mortified on how the emphasis was on "white children". I felt my skin crawling. I thought people knew better but it was just a further statement to racism.
She just proved that 3rd grade kids are ruthless, nothing else.
Ah yes..
Harming children +their friendships and potentially traumatising them to prove a point
This goes to show this type of stuff is taught and learned
It's basic human nature because kids would get bullied without this experiment.
"UFO is real" quote when showing the kids responses to the experiment lmaooo 😂😂😂😂
At first I was like, yeah! This is nice. But at 3:33.. It feels like it's too extreme.
This got me concerned for my own well-being because I have blue eyes lmao
trust me, most people have nothing against blue eyed people. If anything, its a globally adored trait to have
Damn, this is where 3Blue1Brown and The Who got their ideas.
You notice the brown eyed people who supposedly face discrimination outside of the experiment had no problem discriminating but the blue eyed people were reluctant.
That's a key difference in behavior this experiment exposed that nobody talks about.
it was an all white class, if I remember correctly.
unless you're saying all Brown eyed people are less compassionate
@@johnmensah3076 Where in my statement did I mention race?
@@JohnDoe-og2bt your statement implied it, there was no mention of the Brown eyed kids facing any discrimination outside of the experiment. Sorry if I got it wrong
@@johnmensah3076 Blue eyes are supposedly part of "pretty privilege".
I would stop before letting out another Freudian slip.
Simple, they were reluctant because they experienced discrimination. I don't know what you meant with your comment, but it looks like you failed to use logic.
Our teacher did a similar experiment. I suppose it must have been the THING to do back in the day. Even though we were all quite young, I remember wondering why all these sheep were buying into such a ridiculous idea about inequality.
I was raised in a good home were inequality was thought of as the domain of uneducated people; I feel sad for people who judge others based on differences.
This feels like something that should only be done with older teenage students
But teenage students developed critical thinking skills and can catch bullshit when they see it. The lesson means nothing because they don't believe it.
@@burnttoast.2017 no, that's not it. Most teenagers nowadays understand what the lessob is trying to teach and agree with it. My main concern is that younger teenagers and children will see this activity as a way of bullying other kids or possibly building internalised hatred towards others if they are a member of a minority group.
@@stuffynosepatrolyes, but they teacher stepped in and clearly let them know that they’re behavior was wrong. Young minds are still developing but having a bit of an immersive experiment like this is actually doing more good than bad. While it might be “traumatizing” for the moment, it will show them how to treat other the way they want to be treated
Once again teaching race stuff by destroying kids relationships, can we stop using kids to prove points.
good job teaching the kids racism
Discrimination.
That was literally the experiment.
Problem is when the question of discrimination is not clear cut.
Imagine if instead of Brown vs Blue it was Green vs Brown vs Blue vs Hazel
All out war
Fuck it, what if the experiment was just the teacher telling all individual kids why their eye color is superior?
I really enjoy your videos and information. The way you keep the pacing and the occasional foley and tones.
On the subject of this lesson I believe it is flawed. There are a few variables that are missing. Possibly due to the parameters the lesson has. One factor it seems to always miss is the unification of a small group within that can upset the system. I believe for discrimination to work individuals must be made to suffer alone and reintroduced to the marginalized group. Otherwise, strengthening even a small number of the said to be lesser group can end the power of the said to be greater. The problem with this little experiment is that is little to no resistance with the marginalized group. They just accept what they are told to be. It is almost like she is teaching that the said to be inferior group is in FACT inferior. Which we know her end game so this is false. If it is not false then well, I suppose that is a whole argument no one wants to have.
Given the circumstances laid out in the beginning I don't think this experiment was the most thought out. Additionally, these are third grade school children; I don't think much complexity could have been extracted from this in the end. In a setting with more developed children, let's say sixth and up, a lot more could have been learned; take for example the Third Wave experiment that explores how easily people can bend to expectations and pressures from those who have power (at least, that's what I took from it). This experiment was certainly flawed, of course, and harmful, but at the same time valuable. Whether the harm outweighs the value should be decided on an individual basis.
7:55 She was featured on Oprah in 1922…
"yes, i do want to know what it feels like to be discriminated against!"
oh lord protect us all
very underrated content
Haven't ready 3 the rest of the comments but imagine being able to be on Oprah, IN 1922! Hopefully I'm not the only one who caught that lol.
Now look at the idea on a national scale. People meet the expectations they're given. Low expectations are just as racist.
I had no idea that Oprah was on TV in 1922, she looks pretty good for being over 130 years or more
Human minds are nothing bt mere expressions of themself..the one who see pasts this are the ones enlightened..and they wont take the word "SPECIAL" for granted
This continues to be a perfect representation for today. When the role was switched the following day- it didn’t solve anything either as it hasn’t the day previous when the experiment began. Today white people are being discriminated against like black people were and it’s getting worse. Discrimination is horrible, but discriminating back doesn’t solve anything.
Nah i think today everyone is discriminating eachother
@@skepabbas9400 I agree. At this point everyone hates everyone
white people are not being discriminated against like black people at all, black people not only faced discrimination but cruelty which white people have not faced anywhere in the modern day.
@@alio6359 it still happens and they sometimes get discriminated by other races as well. Everyone hates everyone
@@Melody-kc1tg thats true nowadays every one does hate everyone which i think is the influence of social media platforms like twitter
I think this is kind of messed up , like these poor kids had to suffer through bullying and for weeks, like they probably needed so much therapy after this
No doubt this killed several friendships within the class...
Are there any known people who went through this experiment? I gotta dig deeper
the kids cried and hugged each other at the end. did you even watch the video?
Now we're doing it on a societal level in the west.
The kid with green eyes:
What about kids with clouded eyes
I love how someone in the class randomly said UFOs are real 🤣
Teacher: hey let’s fuck with these kids heads, ruin friendships, and start bullying that could cause trauma
meanwhile, everyone is fine with other minorities getting bullied and traumatized
Hatred is taught.
This still happens in the form of pretty privilege
The prettier ones gets all the respect, appreciation and everyone understands them, making their confidence go up and up, and sometimes also making them overconfident
While the kids who aren't percieved pretty are treated the worst, they struggle to have a self esteem
It's bad, but to be fair it is rooted in science. Pretty people are most likely to be healthy and thus produce healthier children. That's why people fixate towards pretty people.
@@Rikken552 i agree, but we need to work on that cuz we don't reproduce with everyone, only one person in our life needs to fit that standard ie our life partner
Just because it's our biological trait doesn't mean doing it in extreme makes it right
Like it's in our blood to reproduce, but if each household produced 10+ kids all over the world, we'd out of resources. So sometimes we have to stop listening to our biological programming
It's called halo effect not pretty privilege
Hm... I like to read into occult, but i like to call the sudden increase of grades "beyond established capabilities" as being "boosted". I like to do this where i can, but I'm mostly an honest guy. Being "boosted" works for groups with similar peers like: Families, Race, Genders, Cultures, Location etc.
You can be "boosted" or not be boosted.
Man thx for bringing this up
I would have been the one saying "wait.."
we need to bring this back
Lmao way to teach cruelty I applaud this haha if we don't teach kids how to hate and discriminate where else would they learn.
Bad parents
@@lefishe6611 exactly my point lol people teach kids to hate and discriminate kids are not born with that shit.
I love this video! Thank you for the extra knowledge that Oprah has been on since 1922 lol
Interesting fact this experiment came from Iowa. Our teacher did this experiment to us when we were kids.
I like Iowa. It’s such a beautiful place.
What about hazel eyes?
I have them and they can change to vivid green for long periods of time. (And have an orange band of color near my pupil for some reason)
This is a interesting discussion, reminds me of Vault-Tec experiments.
Good for her ❤❤❤
5:32 which makes the idea of retribution against white people these days fascinating, often referred to as reparations, how I'm starting to see it be normalized for "minorities," aka people who aren't white in terms of race, to be racist/prejudiced/discriminatory to white people, especially with concepts based around once legal acts like affirmative action.
*just to add, the whole idea of reparations is absolutely ridiculous. being born with light skin doesn't mean you support anything like the concept of slavery, nor does it mean you deserve to be treated like you do just because some people in your ancestry believed that, or some people in the past or even the present with the same skin color as you believe in racism towards non-whites. the whole idea of reparations is ironically racist, redundant and hypocritical, absolutely useless, and reinforces unnecessary discrimination. no one who conducted slavery or harsh segregation or racial ridicule towards black people back in the day is alive, so who is gonna be reparated? exactly.
Whats the music in the beggining.
Pretty interesting video.. it is fascinating how manipulation and psychology work together to weave lies around a grain of truth
as a blue eyed person, I thought "this is such a cruel experiment" then had to remind myself a lot of black people go through this everyday and I realized I really need to keep my white-privileged ass in check 😭 (like a minute later 7:39 expressed my exact thoughts lol). throughout my life I've experienced my fair share of discrimination due to being queer but I can't imagine how horrible it would be being hated on for something you cannot hide
You were taught to hate yourself weren't you? Your skin color means nothing about your personality anyone who says so is a idiot controlling narsisic and a poison
You are currently hated in the western society the most, and only your men face even more hatred alongside actual systemic discrimination so it shouldn't be that hard to relate. Of course, in all reality you probably aren't White.
Should have made Brown and Blue eyes fight and green eyes be like the neutral party causing all of this mess.
@@lilglitchboi7259 👃
@@lilglitchboi7259 the green eyes would... like he said, be neutral. There eye color doesn't make them smarter or dumber. Try again. Your argument is ineffective
Y’all saying “it’s cruel to do this to children, they’re only in third grade!”
Imagine how little black kids felt they went through this sh!t everyday (and a lot still do) and were seen like this by white ADULTS much less other white kids
Also, where is the cruelty. Only in a mega feminized country like the USA would people cry about this lol. And its mostly men, pathetic
She should go to prison
I don't think I have felt this much revulsion towards any human in my entire life
We did this in my class in 5th grade during 2018.
It was very different.
My teacher wanted us to on learn about slavery to see how people would understand. I will say it was sad but very interesting. One if the kids next to me was very racist to the kid across for me I told him out he didn’t like that very much. But later he was suspended.
You make No sense
Completely unethical to do this to children.
aggressively sobbing in hazel eyes
Netflix today meanwhile: WhItE PeOpLe bAD.
"UFO is real"
Truly ahead of their time when it comes to the philosophical question of prejudice and discrimination.
2:13 I totaly ageree with that
Both groups started equally, and the change of "rule" was abrupt.
Give the brown eye kids some time and they'll start acting the same as the top of the chain.
What is morally evil here about our society and us as people? That is, there was no father to gouge out the eyes of this thing.
You learned nothing from this video
@@tophatcat1173 these are god damn third graders theres nothing to learn, this is potentially psychologically harmful
making a third grader cry probably wont make them learn the theme they're crying about if you dont explain to them what it even is
she justified her method through self-righteous indignation but by any other metric it is vindictive
and both groups started equally + the abrupt change of rule will make probably both groups take some time for it but still at one point forget all of this
@@tophatcat1173 Framed as racism its considered harmful, but discrimination is useful for organization or identification.
Maybe the lesson is humans don't like being sorted like their possessions?
What
finally.
RACISM: PART 2
How did you could say beyond the wall and inferior infenion have you seen aot before
This sounds like something you’d need a permission slip to do 😨
I mean giving kids reasons to bully each other and then letting them harass each other doesn't seem like the best thing to me... She literally encouraged fist fights on the school playground after seeing then happening💀. Of course real discrimination was very terrible but I wonder if this actually causes more harm then good.
Elliot was right, but unironically and with black people.
Racist much
@@Mrcleanfrfr perhaps
On one hand, this seems cruel to do this with 3rd graders and it can damage some of the kids relationships. On the other hand, I started to get bullied at 3rd grade because they realised that insults make me cry and they loved making me cry. Children often bully those which are different (in any possible way), so maybe similar excercises could help with this problem ?
I was bullied for being autistic and they made me feel like i wasnt human, so i stopped joining class activities and when teachers noticed, they just isolated me and continued like it wasnt wrong what happened
Yup they love to make those students cry more who cry easily.
I was one of those kids who used to cry easily and they started bullying me as they loved and laughed when I used to cry, that extreme bullying made me scared of talking to new people as I thought that if I talk to anyone then it increases the chances of them bullying me as they would know that I cry easily but it also led to them thinking that I am not a normal person and they started making fun of me for this too, now I am 21 and I don't know why but I am still hesitant of talking to new people even though I do not get bullied anymore.
@@kanekiken2002 lol
@@cheefqueef6494 Yeah you can laugh at me if it makes you happy.
I have stopped caring about likes of you, long ago.
@@cheefqueef6494 Intelligence lvl 0
In my 1st grade class, they did something similar. They put us in groups based on our birthdays, then our first initial, then if we had glasses, then our birth day, then our hair and eye color. Things became crazy because certain groups had certain supplies during craft time.
This is like A to M are achievers and likely to succeed while N to Z will most likely fail. My first real name starts with letter U which is Umaverde and having that name already screams dumbass and the teacher had the bright idea to separate everyone in tow groups and we obviously lost our shit because we lost 16 out of 20 games because of our low morale and already not cool composure after that pep talk of first letter in my name.
Right now murica land is gonna take a big fat L for ultimately alienating majority of their population which is going to affect everything drastically. You don't divide people to achieve innovation you make people of different backgrounds befriend one another and prohibit any side discriminatory language. That's one way towards creating a utopia like society. People mind their own bizz, no shitholes telling you what you are, try your best to smile even if you don't. All small gestures of good things can spread more good things.
I even started a trend of randomly greeting my neighbors and saying thank you and now almost 90% of my neighbors greet each other and says regards with one another.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it's almost as if anger and feeling were a fire reaction: you spark a small flame in a forest and then it generate a reaction that ended up burning the entire forest. Each leaves, each tree become a combustion reaction.
@@janinebelleestrada7096 i know this isn’t relevant to what you said but you are so extremely pretty-
@@janinebelleestrada7096 it wasn't morale. You guys were just dumb
@@prettyrat. yes