Brown Eyed Blue Eyed A Critical Analysis
Brown Eyed Blue Eyed: A Critical Analysis In the documentary “Brown Eyed Blue Eyed”, Jane Elliott strives to enlighten us on the effects of racism in our society, using a technique that she refers to as “diversity training”. In this exercise she separates the brown-eyed people from the blue-eyed people, and proclaims the blue-eyed people to be inferior to the brown-eyed people, due to the amount of the color-causing-chemical, melanin, in their blood, which allows light to pass through their eyes, piercing their brains. Throughout this exercise, the blue-eyed people are belittled, and ridiculed by the brown-eyed people. ... Throughout the film, the blue-eyed people are submitted to a series of events in order to demonstrate their inferiority. In the beginning of the exercise, they are segregated from the brown-eyes, and are sent to a small room devoid of windows, and certain privileges are withheld, such as beverages, and the use of bathroom facilities. ... Once brought to the room with the brown-eyed people, the blue-eyed people were made to sit in the center of the room, surrounded by the brown-eyes on each side.