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Rachel Tibbetts Hidden Bias


It has been shown numerous times that children learn prejudice from a very young age. My question is, what types of activities can be implemented in school to try and negate prejudice and promote interaction between people at a very young age. This also reminds me of an experiment conducted by Jane Elliott in 1968. Jane was a elementary school teacher who decided to teach her class a lesson about the meaning of discrimination. 

I also thought it was note-worthy that just integrating people did not help in eliminating prejudice. Rather it was when people were put into a situation where they had to work together to solve shared problems that a sense of community was established. This also seems like something that could be helpful if implemented correctly in an academic situation. For me, it was the collaboration of the theatrical process that brought me closer to people I would not have otherwise been interacting with.

Another question I had was, what role does social media take in furthering stereotypes and prejudice. Does it help spread main stream media prejudice? Or does it oppose these main stream media ideals, since it is not regulated in the same way?


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