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That happened to me in the 4th grade. The school was very heavily hispanic, with a few whites in the class (I'm white). The teacher (male) was one I had enourmous respect for, he was extreamly funny, and got us wanting to learn. He was the type of teacher who when someone got in trouble we would have a day of court to determine his guilt/innocence, and if he was innocent the teacher would buy him a coke to compensate for putting him/her on the spot.
Anyways he did this experiment, but instead of eyes it was whether or not you could speak Spanish, I couldnt at the time. First it was if you spoke spanish you were superior, then inferior. The first day many of my friends (both mexican and white) who couldnt speak it faked it to simply get the free day. The next day it was those who spoke it were inferior. I remember I got up at first to go play.. and then saw the looks on my friends faces, and I made my way back to my seat.
As stated above I had NO idea what that would show in my life, but reading this took me back then where I refused to leave my friends just because some stupid difference.
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