With JANE ELLIOTT
Imagine that you had been forcibly removed from your parents and raised never knowing your true heritage ¨C all because of the color of your skin. Imagine that the white government wanted to make your entire race extinct ¨C just because you weren¡¯t born white. If you lived in Australia this was your fate and you became part of the ¡°Stolen Generation.¡±
How would it be if for one day the tables were turned and the whites could be made to feel what it was like to be part of this ¡°Stolen Generation¡±?
America¡¯s foremost diversity educator, Jane Elliott, did just that, as she conducted her world-famous blue eyed/brown eyed exercise in discrimination in Australia with the whites and Aborigines. Watch the astonishing and thoughtful results of this exercise.
Ironically, this film is particularly useful in the United States, as participants¡¯ defenses are down, and their discussion of racism in Australia lends itself to a sequeway to discrimination in the U.S.
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