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Essay / Discrimination of children - 625
1. When the teacher, Ms. Elliott, announced that people with blue eyes were better than people with brown eyes, the body language of the brown-eyed children showed that they were quickly hurt by this discriminatory statement. The brown-eyed children tried to defend themselves immediately, while the blue-eyed people smiled and looked happy as they sat quietly in agreement with the teacher. During recess, the brown-eyed children were leaning against the wall, heads bowed, looking sad and alone. The children with the collars sulked and sat away from the blue-eyed children because they felt disrespected. The children also started teasing each other and two of the boys even started fighting because one called the other "brown eyes." The brown-eyed boy took offense at this, even though having brown eyes wasn't a derogatory term before Mrs. Elliott told them it was. If the student had been called "brown eyes" before the teacher called him inferior, the boy would never have gotten angry since he would have known that they were all equal. The next day, one of the children came...