Question

How are the brown-eyed children in “The Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Exercise” affected by prejudice similarly to the speaker in “Jabari Unmasked”?

Answer 1

Answer: “The ‘inferior’ classmates also transformed – into timid and subservient children who even during recess isolated themselves, including those who had previously been dominant in the class.”

Explanation:

This sentence is located in paragraph 3 in the “The Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Exercise.” In the story “Jabari Unmasked" the people of color will often hide their identity because of the negative exceptions of the society in which they live.

In the story “The Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed Exercise” the superior children are always praised and were told daily that they were more gifted than others. This increased the self confidence of the children that were considered gifted.