Monday, April 18, 2011

Meritocracy In The House !

     Do you think that people perform by the way they're perceived ? Well the definition of meritocracy states; "an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth." In the experiment of "The Class Divided" the teacher had put blue collars on the students who were said to be "less important" than the said eye color of the others (Blue or Brown). The students that we said to be "better" completed an alphabet flash card assignment in less than 3 minutes, but in the previous day when they were the lesser group, it took them about five minutes. This occurs almost every day in a typical life. People who are EXPECTED to do better, tend to have somewhat of a drive to do so, because they know their better when compared to another person or group of people. There's no way of changing this though, people will forever assume one is better than the other, and one will continue to excel as the other is left behind, it is the way of the world, and I'm not sure if it will ever come to a point where we're all equal to a point where we all excel.

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