Response

During class today, the overall theme of what we did had to do with discrimination. The test was just strange. I feel like it really wasn't accurate because it gave me results that I don't necessarily agree with. Listening to the Face to Face videos made me realize that the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor events really did effect the lives of people from Japan and Middle Eastern areas. The story that stuck out most to me was about a Japanese guy that was harassed by the FBI after Pearl Harbor. He got so fed up and sick of it that he hung himself in his barn. Nobody should ever have to deal with being harassed, especially by the government to the point where you feel the need to commit suicide.

While watching A Class Divided, I kept thinking about how the children's parents reacted to this study. It seems logical that the teacher must've had to get permission from the parents because it'd be a bad situation if a child came home from school and felt bad about their eye color. I wasn't surprised how easily the 3rd grader's views were changed because they believe about anything an adult will tell them, especially their teacher. Also, I wonder if the students were skeptical about simple things the teacher told them after the experiment. If somebody convinced me of things that turned out to be false more than once, I would question everything else they said.