I
feel that segregation of people on the basis of their different
physical attributes, race, or religion is wrong and should not
happen.Today at school, our teachers separated the people with brown eyes from the people with blue eyes. They treated the people with brown eyes very nicely and the people with blue eyes badly. They treated the people with blue eyes badly by giving them more class work, more homework, making them stay in for recess, not letting them speak without being spoken to, and having to sit at separate tables in the lunch room. Other things they did to people with blue eyes were not letting them leave the room during class, making them fetch or clean things up for people with brown eyes, making them stay on the blacktop at recess (if they went out,) and making them come in earlier than people with brown eyes. On the other hand, they paid more attention to people with brown eyes by letting them play the computer, letting them put their feet upon the tables during class, sitting at better tables in the lunch room, and letting them stay outside longer than blue eyed people.
I was in the brown eyed category,
but somehow I didn't feel right. The reason I didn't feel right
is because I was thinking about what it would feel like to be in the place of a person with blue
eyes. If I were in the place of a person with blue eyes, I probably
would be upset and angry. I guess I felt
sorry for the people with blue eyes who didn't have the privilege
of doing activities freely. Another reason I didn't feel right,
was that I was not allowed
to play, talk, or sit next to my friends in the other group.There have been many examples of segregation in America and in world history, the most notable being whites and blacks, Jews and Germans, whites and Native Americans. There was also the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
History and today's experiment teach us that segregation is bad for all involved, so let's try to make our world free of segregation and prejudice.