Are you racist?

The teachers out there will be familiar with the fantastic "blue-eyed/brown-eyed" exercise created by Jane Elliott, but for those of you in the work place or interested in diversity training I would highly recommend watching the experiment below. Be warned though that at some parts it can be quite upsetting in how people react.

Jane Elliot is a a pioneer in equality activism, and does not encourage the attitude of being colour blind but rather taking a stance that accepting that people are different, and appreciating that is real diversity.

This is a great study and worth at least the 15 minutes of your time it would take you to watch it.

Thanks to the great people at Upworthy for reminding me of this piece, and don't forget to visit Jane Elliott's site to find out more on this experiment.