1. When the teacher, Mrs. Elliott, announced that people with blue eyes are better than those with brown eyes, the body language of the brown-eyed children showed that they quickly felt hurt by this discriminatory statement. The brown-eyed children immediately tried to defend themselves, while the blue-eyed children smiled and looked happy as they sat silently agreeing with the teacher. During recess, the brown-eyed boys leaned against the wall, their heads down, looking sad and lonely. The children with collars sulked and sat away from the children with blue eyes because they felt slighted. The children also started teasing each other and two boys even started fighting because one called the other “brown eyes”. The brown-eyed boy took offense at this, even though having brown eyes was not a derogatory term before Mrs. Elliott told him. If the student had been called “brown eyes” before the teacher labeled him as inferior, the boy would never have been angry since he would have known that they were all the same. The next day one of the children arrived...
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