What Jane Elliot’s Blue Eyed/Brown Eyed Experiment is Still Teaching Us
Update: 2025-07-29
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In this episode, we dive into Jane Elliott’s groundbreaking “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” experiment and the profound effect it had on the children and young adults who experienced it. What began as a classroom exercise became a powerful demonstration of how quickly people can internalize superiority or inferiority based on arbitrary traits. We explore how this social experiment exposed the raw truth about prejudice, privilege, and the ease with which society builds—and believes in—destructive constructs.
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