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1. What is a minority? How do we identify a minority? Is majority based on numbers, power, or both?
2. What is “the problem?” Is it people of color, or is it the negative reactions of majority group members to the differentness of others? Whose problem is it?
3. Can you cite parallels from today’s society to the attitudes and behaviors of the participants during the exercise?
4. Participants in this exercise are exposed to discrimination for a short time; relate their behavior and performance to that of minority group members in our society who are exposed to discrimination for a lifetime.
5. From what you’ve seen in this film, who do you feel is responsible for the existence and elimination of racism in our society? The school? Your parents? Religious leaders? The government? The heads of major corporations? The legal system? You?
6. Participants in the exercise reacted in different ways to the unfairness of the authority figure. Identify the kinds of attempts made to cope with this situation and analyze the effectiveness of each in defeating the oppressor or lessening the pressure. Can you suggest something that might have worked better?
7. Why, in your opinion, didn’t members of the designated minority groups defend each other as they were being verbally abused?
8. If you had been in the minority group created by the exercise, what would you have done? What would the logical consequences of such an action have been? Would they be the same for minority group members who react that way in today’s society?