Journal Assignment

The experiment of blue eyed and brown eyed consisted in a teacher who discriminated one eye color to see the response of the kids, and she saw that when one of the eye colors was mentioned the other kids got grumpy. This teached them how they shouldnt be racist. She used a way to divide the class so the kids would, feel how the african american people would feel every time they get descriminated, the kids finally learn and that lesson the teacher gave them would change their way of thinking, they would have no more racist beliefs thanks to that lesson. Prejudice is "An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts". and Discrimination is "Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice" both of this words have a similar meaning, but both of them have a bad connotation, because no one should judge someone before actually knowing them. The part of the video that was more interesting in my opinion was the part that the teacher told that when the kids with brown eyes were descriminated there grades lowered, and when they were the dominant eye color there grades went up.

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Why are people racist?

People behave like animals, when they get harmed once by a human they get a response in there brains that makes them never get close to another person that can harm them. Well like us if we are harmed by someone or we see people getting harmed in movies by a certain race or kind of people, we get a fear of getting hurt by that same race, we create like a respone in our brains that when we are close to a race that can hurt us we dont get that close so we can defend ourselves. Everyone has some kind of racist beliefs, but some people develop it more than others, some people use racism as a weapon to defens themselves, they keep close to the people of the same kind because they are in their comfort zone. People are also racist because they are afraid of things they dont understand and are afraid to comfront the way they feel. Also because some people are ignorant and they dont get to know the other kind of people before they judge. So in conclusion we think that we never will understand the other races so we stay with a fear of getting hurt by other races.

What causes racism?

"Racism is one of the most revolting things within the vicinity of humanity. It haunts our past, many times degrading the future". one of the most common causes of racism is stereotypes, this is because the people see through television, radio, and movies. When we are young we are exposed to people that are shown in this stereotypes so we think that they are bad, or they will behave in a way that can damage us, like in the movies. Another cause of racisim is unfamiliarity, this is becaue people fear what they do not know. Selfishness is another key factor in racism, this is because humans are selfish creatures, because they only care about there own expense. Another big cause is enviromental factors, our phisical envioroment can affect our biology and that can affect our minds. These are all the causes of racism, and because of racism people dont get to know all of the persons, you can get to know a lot of people from every race who can get to be a good friends of yours, and that you can get to share with alot, race doesn't show how a person could be. In conclusion movies, tv shows, radio give a bad stereotype of all the different races, every race has virtues that people dont account for, and this is why the human race it is not perfect. Because the person who thinks bad of another person its not a person that you should be around with.

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Why is psychology important?

Psychology is an important subject because it talks of the people's emotion and how do they affect the behavior of society. Without society we would never know how the human mind works psychology also talks about human emotions and why do peole feel the way they feel and why do they react as they do. This is important to me because I learn by watching how people do stuff and why they do it. In if all of the people would know more about psychology the world will be different.