Jane Elliots stimulation recrestes a smaller version of society in a very big way. The 1980s were years where the world was very "white is right". There were a lot of discrimination of blacks. White people judged and critisized black people. Jane Elliot recreates a horrible thing that is happening around the world in a grade three class, but the results were huge. In Janes stimulation she shows perfectly how if one side that is told that they are btter immediatly begins to act superior and attack the other side. This was very common in the 1980s with the whites and blacks. This same thing happened in the Holocaust with the Jewish religion. People that were Jewish would get an arm band that would show the Germans who is Jewish. Jane represented this by putting the collar on the kids that were the non superior group, the collar represented the discrimination because she made the bad people stand out by putting the collars on them. But Jane making the people feel bad and by distancing them for being different showered what the society is doing all along just become someone is different.
The psychological impact of discrimination on the children was life changing. At first the inferior group felt better, dominant, like they owned the non superiod group. While the non superior group felt sad, distant from the inferior group, they felt like they got their best friends away, they got in fights, and began saying blue eyes, brown eyes like it was a insult. Their results changed for the worse because they were depressed. It took the kids half an hour to turn on eachother. On the second day the inferior group was on the bottom now and the non inferior group was on top now. This caused the chidren to experience how the other kids felt when they were on the bottom. They believed all of this because a authoritarian figure led the children to believe that one is better than the other which at that point they agreed and disregraded the truth. This experience affected the...