The Situation of Retail Discrimination
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 13, 2011
Here is another segment from John Quinones’s excellent ABC 20/20 series titled “What Would You Do?” — a series that, in essence, conducts situationist experiments through hidden-camera scenarios. This episode asks, “How would you respond to blatant retail discrimination?“
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To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see
- “Racial Prejudice in Real Estate Markets,”
- “Journalists as Social Psychologists & Social Psychologists as Entertainers,”
- “Solomon Asch’s Famous Compliance Experiment,”
- “The Situation of Bullying,”
- “Jane Elliot’s Situationist Pedagogy,”
- “Black History is Now,”
- “The Toll of Discrimination on Black Women,”
- “The Cognitive Costs of Interracial Interactions,” and
- “The Racialized Situation of Vandalism and Crime.”
Roi Ben-Yehuda said
Thanks for this. I was introduced to this show through your blog. I love it (and the blog). Also, I just discovered that Israel has its own version of “What Would You Do?”. In this episode, for example, Arabs are denied service at a kiosk in a gas station near city of Holon. Given the rise of racism in the country this is an important subject to address. The translation is not great (for example “rightist” is translated into “Zionist”), but sufficient to get the idea across.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZSnehhzsk&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJSFQ-pPAEk&NR=1