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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
The Stanford Prison Experiment was where a random group of college students were either given a duty of prison guard or prisoner for a psychology experiment. After a while, these kids started actually acting upon their assigned positions, sometimes very violently. The prison guards were very dominant and abusive while the prisoners were very submissive and rebellious.
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I saw a very disturbing movie based on this scenario... I cannot remember, at the moment, what it was called.
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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
When white kids of today learn about history and "great" people, all they see are whites. So they start subconsciously assuming that whites are better than all the other races. When they are given this assumption, they will start to subconsciously acting upon it.
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And conversely, how do you think non-white students feel about what they "learn" in "history" class?