Brown eyes or blue?

I felt that the video clip we watched today of Catherine Tate was very interesting because of the message it was trying to get across. I feel that the skit wasn’t only done for comedic purposes, but was made to also get the message across that it’s foolish to treat people differently because of a certain trait (hair color, skin color, eye color etc.). It brought a more humorous side to these kinds of occurrences. Things like this happen everyday (although not in such a dramatic way) to people of different races and ethnicities. People are treated differently based on a trait they have no control over. In this case it was red hair, which people could see the humor in because it sounds ridiculous to judge people based on their hair color. I thought the video had a good message to it, and portrayed discrimination in a different light.

This also reminded me of an experiment Oprah did in her show about discriminating based on eye color. This experiment ended up showing that people began to believe they were superior based on their eye color. She favored brown eyed people, and discriminated against blue eyed people. At the end of the show some of the brown eyed people believed they were actually superior to the ones with blue eyes.

Here's the link to the Oprah experiment if you want to check it out! http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Oprahs-Social-Experiment-on-Her-Audience-Video

Laura Kalinowski Post #4