Jane Elliot's "brown eye/blue eye" demonstration with her third-grade class in the 1970s showed ____.

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Jane Elliot's "brown eye/blue eye" demonstration aimed to teach her third-grade students about prejudice and discrimination by creating an artificial division between blue-eyed and brown-eyed students. The exercise showed how easy it is to create prejudice in children and how it can lead to discrimination and mistreatment of others based solely on physical differences. It did not support the idea of segregation being helpful in preventing prejudice or show that prejudice can have positive effects on victims. Instead, it demonstrated that children do not naturally hold prejudice toward others but can learn to do so based on external factors.

Jane Elliot's "Brown Eye/blue Eye" Demonstration with Her Third-Grade Class