In the 1960s, grade school teacher Jane Elliot told her students that those with blue eyes (as opposed to brown eyes) were inferior. The brown-eyed children quickly treated the blue-eyed children as a(n)

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Elliot's exercise made the blue-eyed children an out-group, which is a social group toward which an individual feels contempt, opposition, or a sense of competition. This exercise was meant to simulate the effects of racism and demonstrate how quickly arbitrary distinctions can lead to prejudice and discrimination.

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