“Are we all racist?”: the weight of stereotypes highlighted by a series of experiments

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"It's a inflammatory subject ," Arnaud Poivre d'Arvor, the creator of "Are we all racist?", admits. This explains why the show took a long time to find its place in the France Télévisions program schedule. Although it was mentioned as early as the start of the 2024 school year, and was announced for March 18 this year, it still had to wait three months. "The discussions were long," the producer confirmed to Le Monde . This show was finally scheduled at a time when the issue of racism in France was relaunched after the murders of Aboubakar Cissé on April 25 and Hichem Miraoui on May 31.

Arnaud Poivre d'Arvor explains that he had the idea for this unusual show after seeing "How Racist Are You?" on Channel 4. ("How racist are you?", in 2009), a program inspired by the experiment conducted in 1968 in the United States by a teacher, Jane Elliott, after the death of Martin Luther King . "She had artificially created discrimination in her class between students with brown eyes (a minority, devalued and discriminated against) and [those with] blue eyes," the majority and overvalued.

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