<span style="font-weight: 400;">Occasionally an individual comes along who totally blows your mind, I mean literally shakes your whole world. Elliott is someone who made me question a lot about myself. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now I grew up with parents who taught me and my siblings that we are all </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">human</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> no matter what our skin colour or what clothes we wear and we should respect that in the way we treat others by treating them the way we would like to be treated. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, there was only 1 black kid at my school and his name was Richard. Not everyone at my school had been brought up to not judge others. Richard also had a bad facial disfigurement from a car accident. Anyway, this kid got really badly bullied and picked on. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">He was defensive as you can imagine and I found myself being protective of him in the playground. He was a couple of years younger and so I would ‘look out’ for him at breaks to warn off any of the bullies because I felt I should.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It was around this time my mum had the title of ‘special needs teacher’ due to the kids she worked with, teaching them geography and crafts. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">My favourite days of the year were when the boiler broke at my own school and she got the call that it would be closed for the day because of this! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">YAY!! </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Can I come to school with you mum?</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I would say</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So I would go along to her </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">special needs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> class and meet all the kids in wheelchairs, callipers, some had mental conditions and many often had a combination.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Helping these people made me feel good. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now this was all at least 33 years ago and I classed myself as being a non racist /non prejudiced character because of all I had done. Yet when I watched, transfixed by Jane Elliott, as she demonstrated the blue eyed brown eyed experiment, it really caught me off guard!</span>

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<h3><b>Was I In Fact Being Prejudiced?</b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me re-write my previous statement above with a different emphasis.</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Helping these people made ME feel good. </span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Was I still being prejudiced by treating Richard as ‘special’ or different because I felt sorry for him? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why did I do that? because it made me feel good? is there a difference?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Am I ignorant? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Am I compounding issues?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Elliott made me question my behaviour towards others </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How am I received? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Perceived? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What were/are my intentions?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now while I would never intentionally demonstrate prejudice, Elliott proves that prejudice still exists in her blue eyes, brown eyes experiments. Elliott challenges that fact we still hear prejudice jokes, often spoken by that minority &amp; do she asks </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">does this make it still ok?</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Why does it seem ok to use Ginger as a derogatory term? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Is that still derogatory if said by someone with ginger hair?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Should we be standing up to ANY torment of differentiating individuals for their appearance? Even if it is ‘just a joke?’</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How is dressing it up in a joke making it ok?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As Elliott puts it, accept we are different because in fact we are by our skin colour BUT we are ALL of the human race.</span>

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<h2><b>What Does This Mean In The Fitness Industry?</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is undeniable that the health &amp; fitness industry is one of the MOST judgemental.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have fat shaming, skinny shaming, males vs female and adductor machines are of course only for girls, right!? </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Or wrong??</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever heard terms like….</span>

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<strong>“<i>Girly press-ups” </i></strong>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do we make assumptions on what people should be able to do based on how they look?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Muscles = Strength?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Girls with muscles look manly</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What about based on what people wear?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nike sports gear vs Puma </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Assessments are a natural part of what we do when we meet potential clients. We analyse them without even thinking. We suss them out by how they speak, move &amp; dress but how much assumption is appropriate &amp; how much needs to be more accurate?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">THINK long and hard about how you judge others, how you speak, the jokes you make or laugh at, the marketing copy you post, the things you put in your videos, your entire social media content because the ignorance we have could be as dramatic to our behaviour and as damaging to another’s feelings as outright nastiness.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Remember we are in the service &amp; influence industry so we must feel responsible for ANY message we are putting out. We are in powerful positions with our tens of thousands of insta followers. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Just remember... </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Insite can be wonderful, &amp; sometimes uncomfortable, as I learnt from Jane Elliott </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are the links to her site and a video that is well worth your time to watch.</span>

<a href="https://janeelliott.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jane Elliot Website</a>

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Watch This:

https://youtu.be/1mcCLm_LwpE

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