Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes
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CORE DEFINITION
The teacher, to help children understand discrimination, arbitrarily decreed that "blue eyes are superior to brown eyes," with the result that blue-eyed children instantly became arrogant and bullying, while brown-eyed children became self-deprecating and underperforming. Scaffolding effect: - Privilege corrosion: discrimination is artificially manufactured by institutions. In a company, if even a tiny bit of unfounded privilege is given to a certain department (e.g., management trainees), due to the "self-fulfilling prophecy," intergroup antagonism and intellectual divergence will immediately emerge.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Privilege corrosion: discrimination is artificially manufactured by institutions. In a company, if even a tiny bit of unfounded privilege is given to a certain department (e.g., management trainees), due to the "self-fulfilling prophecy," intergroup antagonism and intellectual divergence will immediately emerge.
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Jane Elliott, to make white students experience discrimination, randomly grouped them by eye color and assigned superiority/inferiority, quickly triggering in-group bias and self-fulfilling prophecy.
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