I think this sentence means that before judging someone that is different from us, we should try to put ourselves in their place. Try to do as if we were the other so that we could easily know what happen "inside" the other.
This is exactly what the teacher (that we've seen in the video documentary this Tuesday afternoon) wanted to show, in order to make children and even adults to not do to the other what they would not do to themselves.
It was really interesting to observe the difference between children and adults. It was more acceptable, to me, that children take time to understand the discrimination situation, but it is not so simple to understand the lack of expression or rather the lack of defense of the discriminated "blue eyes" group. Why do they not react? The hopeless ... it is exactly like a Greek tragedy, when your destiny (actually built by humans) takes totally possession of your life.
If people act like that in a school could you imagine how it is in the real life...
This is exactly what the teacher (that we've seen in the video documentary this Tuesday afternoon) wanted to show, in order to make children and even adults to not do to the other what they would not do to themselves.
It was really interesting to observe the difference between children and adults. It was more acceptable, to me, that children take time to understand the discrimination situation, but it is not so simple to understand the lack of expression or rather the lack of defense of the discriminated "blue eyes" group. Why do they not react? The hopeless ... it is exactly like a Greek tragedy, when your destiny (actually built by humans) takes totally possession of your life.
If people act like that in a school could you imagine how it is in the real life...
3 comments:
Hi Geraldine,
Yeah, the scarce reaction of most of the blue-eyed people shocked me; but, for me, it was most shocking the indulgence and justification of the discrimination against the blue-eyed by the brown-eyed people. None of them tried to defend them.
Ja~I think I have also learnt something in psychology.
Hi Geraldine,
Actually, the whole video was amazing and i was surprised by the way these kids were treating their friends in school "3rd grade".
"if people act like that in a school could you imagine how it is in the real life..."......i really like this sentence
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