I believe that those who change the world are those who put their oar in to the irrelevant matters. One of them is Jane Elliott. An American primary school teacher. Just after the death of Martin Luther King, she started an experiment with the third grade students which they will never forget and which will make them a family till the end of their lives.
The children are separated into two groups. Blue eyes and brown eyes groups… One day“blue eyes group” has the power and the other day “brown eyes group”.Within just twenty-four hours, the academic success of the powerful group increased above the average, while the other group’s decreased significantly.
It seems simple to read it now, isn’t it?
Of course, we do not think that those with brown eyes are superior to those with blue eyes, do we? Or while our “ordinary differences” like fingerprints or retinas are perfectly acceptable“differences”, why are some of our “differences” simply not acceptable because of the social norms?
Where it is to easy to change our hair color, it is not easy to change our sexual identity. Or it is relatively simple to decide which university we will go but it is not that “simple” to decide on what we believe or not believe.
Then who is deciding what is easy to change or not or what the “normal” is. But my real question is something else. If we are writing the norms and we are determining what normal is why don’t we change the ones that we don’t like?
