Prejudice In Blue-Eyed, By Jane Elliot

In the blue-eyed, brown-eyed experiment, examples of prejudice, stereotypes, racism, discrimination, and institutional discrimination are present.

Prejudice is an unfair generalization of a group of people with little or no evidence.

Therefore, when Jane Elliot tells her class that blue-eyed people are better than brown-eyed people the blue-eyed children develop a prejudice attitude against the brown-eyed children.

One little boy tries to protests, stating his father was not stupid, but when Jane Elliott asks the boy if his father has brown-eyes and the little boy confirms he does, Jane Elliott proceeds to remind him about the day he came to school and said his father kicked him. She asks him "well do you think a blue-eyed father would kick his son?" He thought he could say yes, but Elliot asks a blue-eyed boy if his father had ever kicked him and the boy answers no (even though the blue-eyed father may very well have kicked this boy, the little boy knew better

The first example of discrimination occurs when both men are shopping and the white man is attended to quicker while the black man is ignored, forced to wait. This is an example of discrimination and a situation that affects both men differently. One man can go along with his day while the other one has to wait; but what if he has other things to do? Having him wait for someone to attend to him might force him to be late, it is disrespectful and inconsiderate of the man’s time and money based on the color of his skin.

An example of institutional discrimination would be when both men are looking at apartments and at jobs and the white man is clearly more trusted than the black man and is presented with more opportunities than the black man. These are examples of institutional discrimination, discrimination, racism and prejudice

Eddie Murphy as Mr. White: