An American Girl: the Problems of Prejudice (1958)

[@HaHaHaLMFAOtv]

What stood out to me the most was how smart she was. The way she think and write - it all shows that Norma is more intelligent than friends around her. And I think it's a very beautiful gesture to wear a bracelet. She red the diary of Anne Frank, became aware of what have happened in Europe and choose to support Jews by wearing a bracelet in time when racism was all over the place. I think she was very brave for her age. And reading her personal diary to a huge audience also takes a lot of courage.

[@lynetteh824]

Yes, it's very commendable to not be racist & accept, see the good in all peoples from different ethnicities, cultures, traditions, religions & all backgrounds in life. But it has to work both ways. You see, let's just use one example. If Norma was to meet a Jewish boy, fall head over heels in love with him, he wouldn't nor couldn't accept Norma as she is & go steady with her. There would be so many problems & marriage would definitely be out of the question. It's wonderful to praise Norma for her strong beliefs & values, but what about the negative values of others towards her?

[@victoriaastrida]

@@lynetteh824 So you are saying that we should predicate our morality on the possible beliefs and reactions of others? What a cowardly way to live. We cannot predict or control others, but our lives are our own. I would never allow the prejudices of other people to affect my way of life. That is why bigotry and hatred continue because good people do not stand up despite the cost. God bless everyone reading this.

[@patriniacopeland6891]

​@@victoriaastridaWell sai👏

[@QuietlyCurious]

I really like the dad, he's so gentle and wise :)

[@versacegang42]

I wish I could find a boyfriend as considerate and kind as Jack.

[@RememberRox]

7:02 "Mother is that going to be too short?". It really was a different time wasn't it!

[@peachyk3en]

I was thinking the same thing

[@terieber]

She didn't mean too short for modesty. She was talking about the current style for dance dresses. Mom assures her "They're wearing them shorter!"

[@enobongekong1112]

RememberRox seriously i ask that question all tge time😂i feel old now

[@momento_mori_carpe_diem7998]

Enobong Ekong same and Im 16

[@17spyguy]

"is that gonna be too short" Me: "na you can shave a few feet off"

[@Silent157]

"I'm just not an enemy of anybody" Love how this video ended

[@riggs20]

I watch these vintage old documentaries because they usually present a cutesy, idealized version of postwar America. But this one really surprised me! It was very inspiring. I don't know if I would have been as brave as Norma. I'm really glad I stumbled upon this. If I ever have a daughter, I hope she is this courageous. If Norma were real, she'd have gone on to be a tremendous woman.

[@KateGladstone]

Or she would have decided to change and be like her friends. I know some men and women who are about the same age that Norma would be today, and they were like her when they were her age, and they aren’t now, “Oh, yes, when I was young and idealistic, I believed that there was such a thing as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ ... what a little fool I was!”

[@tj921able]

It seems like Norma is finding out what Anne Frank went through. Now, people are reacting the same way the Nazis did toward Jewish people. I lost many relatives during the Holocaust. It's sad this sort of thing was alive during the 1950s. Norma did NOTHING wrong. TY for sharing this video. It's as important today as it was then.

[@theshunnedBandersnatch]

I really enjoyed this; thanks for posting it!

[@TheRatDiaries]

This is how I feel in today's world, where everyone seems to be divided and anything can be taken offensively. If we all just chilled a second, took on the innocence of a loving child, and walked a mile in the other side's shoes, maybe we'd start moving in the right direction again. As Norma pointed out, change starts with the individual.

[@TheRatDiaries]

In other news, Norma looks like a 1950s Demi Lovato.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

Well said, and lovely ratty, by the way :-)

[@Lucailey]

I want to hug you!

[@clb8645]

If by "divided" you mean "one side refuses to entertain or tolerate the bigotry espoused and legislated by the other side", then yeah...we're divided and we're damned well gonna remain that way. There is no compromise in the face of fascist rhetoric and attacks on civil rights.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Patty Duke as the little sister? Amazing. Patty's first TV claim to fame is that she was the spokeschild for Remco Toys ("Every boy wants a Remco Toy and so do girls.") during the 1950s. As a teen she starred with her own sitcom in a dual role as cousins (1963-66). RIP.

[@detectivefiction3701]

She was the original Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER on Broadway and in the movie version.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

@@detectivefiction3701 Excelled there, too.

[@megan2176]

Thank you!! I knew I recognized her, but couldn't figure it out. What about Norma- she looks familiar too. 🤔

[@kathberry8]

very good story, actually

[@saphopoem]

Also the mother is played by Audra Lindley, who was otherwise known as Mrs.Roper on Threes Company.

[@bridgieoh9326]

That's who she is! I was wracking my brain trying to place that voice and face. thx!

[@dominiquepilon4429]

Hijinxx She's was beautiful when she was young

[@troynov1965]

Damn if it aint LOL

[@needles1987]

I thought she sounded familiar.

[@beerborn]

You are most absolutely correct that is her. Good observation. I wasn't even paying attention.

[@nerdnul]

Message is very relevant.

[@jbtex784]

When I was about 12 years old and going to school In Houston which looked a lot like school in Leave It To Beaver days, there was a boy who, if he saw you reaching down to the floor to pick up a penny, he would call you a 'Jew.' I didn't understand what that meant but about 15 years later I would learn. That was the only time I can remember anything negative spoken about Jews in my childhood.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

My dad often said I was J'ish. Which meant just a little bit Jewish. I won't get into all the reasons but picking up a penny (which I still do today) was one of them.

[@caitlin8628]

This inspires me. I would of gotten a soda with her.💚

[@aashanabhandari]

Caitlin Livingston why do i see 'would of' everywhere by native english speakers?it's would have for lord's sake

[@thecatspyjamas1309]

I notice a lot of Americans say "would of" it may be from would've, the way you hear "would've" is close to "would of" so that's probably why it is said like that. When you are a native speaker you're not learning grammar and English like someone who doesn't speak English and who is learning it.

[@theshunnedBandersnatch]

Watching this again, it does seem odd that Norma isn't Jewish in this storyline. The way her father reacted when she asked what language was on the bracelet made it seem like he could've been hiding his heritage in order to protect his family.

[@julienielsen3746]

That was what I was expecting. I thought at the end she was going to say to the school that her parents finally told her that she was really Jewish.

[@EricBrownBey]

I am so shocked this is Dearborn Michigan I literally live less than 10 minutes away from Dearborn

[@ConceptuallyYour]

Listening to these songs, I feel like I'm stepping into a world where everything is simpler and more beautiful. 🌷

[@tj921able]

After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I was inspired to keep a journal & I am proud that I do. I constantly pray people will stop being prejudiced. They need to learn we are all the same on the inside. Thank you again for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

[@patriniacopeland6891]

Prejudice and bigotry are evils that are taught by evil people. No white person dead or alive, can really be Christians and Christ followers when they teach, encourage, and pass on bigotry. God does not condone this SIN. False doctrine is also a SIN.

[@renapoole7742]

I just not an enemy of anybody!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@mrengulfeddirector]

"i'm just not an enemy of everybody." holy shit praise the fucking lord this girl had it right all along i love it

[@nerdybookluv1312]

Aw, Norma is sweet. She was born in the wrong time.

[@detectivefiction3701]

I don't know about that. There has been anti-Semitism in every era, including our own.

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

Love the vintage videos.

[@MichiganHoney]

I'm amused at all the comments about how times have changed. The only change is the target.

[@Lulu7898]

Love this!! Thanks for sharing!

[@solo_incrept_to_infect]

"I like you very much, dear; but, get out of my house Jew! "

[@EllotusFreeholy]

'I didn't think people could do such things' ~ She didn't know her so called 'friends' very well ~ And if she had just 'gone along' she never would have, or worse yet, she would have become just as shallow and unthinking as them.

[@carstellamoore8425]

Really good episode best one yet the girl is strong minded

[@yulay5d263]

Hermosa actuación! Lástima questions tantas décadas después siga vigente el tema

[@MizzWGGrrrl]

I have this uncomfortable curiosity to know what incident/s this film's story was based on. Actually wondering now how I could go about the information search to find out.

[@KateGladstone]

I’ve tracked down the factual source of the story: books.google.com/books?id=aDw4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA778&dq=story+bracelet+%22jewish+symbols%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZw5XCsc3qAhW8hHIEHQSmD6oQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=story%20bracelet%20%22jewish%20symbols%22&f=false

[@vickihshallenberger3644]

I don't know the actual movie/book but it basically deals with a time in our history when racism was very prevalent in our country. Yes there is still prejudice in our country, but I believe it was much worse in her time(I was born in the 50s). I applaud her for standing up for herself and other religions such as Jewish.

[@IcarusReborn]

That was powerful.

[@simw7232]

"Things like this dont happen any more" "the nazis are finished" ...I beg to differ 🙄

[@randomnyc8494]

"No one thought there was anything wrong with this bracelet when we thought it was Arabic..." My how times changed!

[@phoenixgrove]

Random NYC and now they'll be fine with a Hebrew message and get shocked over an Arabic one. Times have changed a lot.

[@KateGladstone]

If anyone re-made this film today, they’d have the girls thinking the bracelet might be in Chinese or Japanese. Otherwise, the hate is still there - only the fashions change.

[@kim_fd8938]

Back then they was happy with jim crow

[@detectivefiction3701]

"They WAS?! What sort of English is that?

[@julianakleijn9254]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL. GIVE IT A COUPLE DECADES GUYS LOL

[@daisypester4561]

My left ear loved it!

[@miker.9138]

Daisy Pester I have hearing loss in my left ear, so I had to switch my headphones around.

[@kimberly-l7k5m]

Same

[@ShirleyPotts-ud3nb]

These are very special and powerful vintage videos

[@DanMan869]

I don't think anyone noticed that Audra Lindley (probably best known as Mrs. Roper from "Three's Company") is playing Norma's mother here. Plus, as has been mentioned, Patty Duke is playing bratty younger sister, Augusta.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

I think it's her cousin Cathy. Look close.

[@strictly45s6]

Shes such an amazing actress!!

[@Lola-re6ny]

I really like this :)

[@dwilloughby13]

Wow, this is like a twilight zone or something , she's being treated like she's an alien from a different planet, so scary.

[@soft_serve_666]

Nope. Just good ol' fashioned prejudice!

[@KateGladstone]

It’s quite realistic. These things have also happened to me and to others like her, and continue.

[@patriniacopeland6891]

Just think how scarey it was and still is for Black children.

[@lilioracle1584]

Cool how she believes in thinking for herself

[@hannahtruesdale4479]

When Jack bought her the book😍😍😍 ok jack😍😍😍

[@rareoro]

"I'm not an enemy of anybody"

[@Pablo123456x]

Golly, Norma sure is a swell girl.

[@lucindaryan806]

Golly! She's a peach!"

[@rebeccaphlly7916]

The insanity of ignorance

[@janetoconnor3636]

People have a right to think and say what they want EVEN if it is being done in America FREE SPEECH. USE IT OR LOSE IT.

[@Emcostanza666]

@@janetoconnor3636you should actually try reading the constitution

[@timweatherill3738]

At 11:42 my blood began to boil at the girls' thinly veiled anti-semitism, and their shocking rudeness of speaking in that manner in front of the shopkeeper. I have no tolerance for anti-semitism, so forgive me if I rant.

[@dusterdude238]

I agree totally! the question remains if the tact of this film was to show how wrong Antisemitism is, or to make it seem the norm, and that you would not be accepted if you did not agree with it. it is just sickening to think that they might be trying to instill prejudges on young impressionable minds.

[@TheRatDiaries]

In the video's info, the poster wrote the video was made by an anti-defamation league. I think its purpose was the former. The 50s weren't all bad.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

DUSTERDUDE238, it isn't trying to instill prejudices, it's trying to discourage them. It's obvious by the way the protagonist is against prejudice, as she states.

[@timweatherill3738]

I think for my part I just gave up on the film too quickly, since I have no tolerance for bigotry, anti-semitism, etc.

[@IlhamHaru]

tim weatherill the same thing is called now Islamophobia

[@rebeccaherschman3069]

Why are people giving bad comments towards this...I don't see anything wrong with telling kids not to be prejudice.

[@kimberly-l7k5m]

that one person hello fellow emo

[@EyeLean5280]

Ooooooh, that Mrs. Draper is so EVIL.

[@katherinea.williams3044]

EyeLean5280 Like the first Mrs. Draper from Mad Men!

[@2degucitas]

That's Patty Duke as the younger sister. RIP

[@gloriajacques9207]

funny how norma is shocked and appalled at what happened to Anna and her family when right there in her city black and brown were being killed for the color of their skin and for wanting to be treated equal

[@BadWolfSilence]

Don't you think that prejudice against Jews is just as important to talk about? Why should everything have to be about racism against black people?

[@gloriajacques9207]

+BatgirltheRobin inm saying shes acting like she never seen anyone treated badly for being who they are

[@YooTuba]

Maybe she hadn't. Kids were more sheltered back then, schools weren't integrated and civil rights wasn't all over the news.

[@ballinangel3231]

ikr!! like racism was such a big thing why was she so surprised???

[@SixthDream]

That was only in the south. There was plenty of black police officers and detectives in the North. Comparing 6 millions of jews starved and murdered to blacks being discriminated against at stores is pretty hilarious.

[@docdave1994]

I'm actually surprised Americans can tell there is a difference between Jews and Arabs

[@nancyrussell2349]

Did anyone else notice the little girl was played by Patty Duke?

[@hedgemist691]

I thought it was Patty Duke. I liked Patty, I was sorry to hear of her passing.

[@Ronbo710]

I though it was Jerry Mathers.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Norma, in some shots, looked a little like Mary Tyler Moore.

[@EyeLean5280]

Are you sure?

[@dma124]

Joe Kaye She definitely did. I thought I was the only one who saw the resemblance.

[@dameaustel]

Which actress plays Norma?

[@robertchandler5055]

Little did she know she would be marrying a future CIA analyst. JACK RYAN...

[@robertchandler5055]

Huge plot hole-they would have been seen in a church in 1958

[@mistybuttercup110]

Good video 👍🏽✌🏽 Luv these thank u!!!!!!! I ahve A teenage daughter 😡

[@kennethbritton601]

This seems more like a Twilight Zone episode than something real. I'm 67 and I've never known anything close to this..maybe this is a regional thing that I've never come to know about. What State is this supposed to be happening in?

[@halcaannen]

Another video says Dearborn, Michigan.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

This was shot in Dearborn, Michigan. Jews generally were not allowed south of Fenkell or east of Woodward in the Detroit area in those days.

[@KateGladstone]

This happened all across the country. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States

[@detectivefiction3701]

Dearborn, Michigan--which is fitting as it was the birthplace of Henry Ford, a big admirer of Hitler.

[@grofys]

is her younger sister played by patty duke?

[@shaggylocks]

Yup. This was just before her film debut as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker."

[@julienielsen3746]

Are you sure. She doesn't look like her to me.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

I think its the cousin Cathy. Look closely.

[@VicvicW]

Very interesting film. An interesting look into the anti-semitism of the time. One must accept the fact it is done very much through lightly vied metaphor however, as it is odd how Norma is not Jewish. Still rather relevant today!

[@julienielsen3746]

I was expecting her parents to tell her that they were really Jewish. Some Jewish people have done that in fear of prejudice. That would have been a better ending, if she had told them about what happened to Anne Frank and then tell that that she had been told she really was Jewish.

[@peachyk3en]

I never realized how different things really were. all this drama because of such a simple thing? that's awful

[@peachyk3en]

I never in a million years thought Americans would behave this way. I thought we helped end the war, against the Nazis! things really were different

[@okiedokie2804]

+Zabi Gee It's very unfortunate, but it's true. In America and even here in Canada, antisemitism was very much alive back then :( before and even after the war. It was a rotten time.

[@gloriajacques9207]

+Zabi Gee do you not know how they treated black people ie:hanging burning men women and children bombing black churches, taking their kids to have a picnic while watching amen get hanged for fun?

[@kittylissiegirl9162]

Wait, you never realized how different things were? Are you from America? Do you ignore when black people talk about this and the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s? Or have you just never been educated on this? I can't understand how anyone can be shocked by this.

[@psychedelicpython]

Unfortunately antisemitism is still going on. Its sad.

[@Heynicetie]

I love that little sister.

[@detectivefiction3701]

Really? I think she's pretty annoying.

[@TheMaceymacreary]

Things haven't changed. The names, faces and cultures, changed but religious prejudice is alive and well in United States. Life would be a lot better off if people wouldn't force their beliefs and attitudes about things on one another

[@melissaadami3144]

Macey MacCreary not religious here but agree I don't like when people push religion on me but dont like the gay agenda or now the freak trans-whatever agenda ..that's just as bad

[@mistybuttercup110]

Macey MacCreary For it is written 📖📖✝️

[@sofiabravo1994]

Melissa Adami “ Push their religion on me” translation: I don’t wanna know Jesus because I believe it means sacrificing my happiness and desires

[@psychedelicpython]

I don't think the hate for Jewish people is strictly a religious thing but that for their nationality.

[@mistybuttercup110]

Subscribed 👍🏽

[@Aport418]

Am I the only one who teared up when her dad said the Nazis were finished? I can't believe whats happening right now...

[@QuartzDiamond86]

And you hated this time period because there were no drugs or sex change surgery.

[@KateGladstone]

The movie’s opening includes an on-screen statement to American teens, telling them that they have “an unerring instinct for juvenile DECENCY.” The rest of the movie is about the majority of teens acting horribly to the one that they decide to hate.

[@versacegang42]

1:54 nothing has changed, except now it's old houses too.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

LOL you have to love at the end how she makes sure she says she is not a friend of the Jews.One step forward 20 back.Yes I have to read you diary to make sure they all know i'm not Jewish.God forbid. I do wonder when I was watching this if she wanted to speak to the class to let them know she wasn’t Jewish rather than she thinks it’s wrong to be prejudice.

[@cherrycola3604]

Chet youbetya she didn't say that she wasn't a friend of the Jews, she said that she didn't do it because she was a friend of the Jews. Meaning that she didn't do it because she really liked Jewish people,doesn't mean she hates them or anything.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

No, you misunderstand.

[@EyeLean5280]

I think what she meant was that she wasn't trying to claim to have Jewish friends, since she didn't. Nor was she trying to aggrandize herself by claiming the title of "ally." She simply didn't believe in hatred, and that's what the bracelet stood for.

[@versacegang42]

She meant that you don't have to be a 'friend' of someone or something, you shouldn't have to be to not be prejudiced as you should just do it automatically.

[@deidremontrose4379]

EyeLean5280 the bracelet was not the problem.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Thats Patty Duke!

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Are you sure it's not Cathy?

[@Shogun-qs6sv]

Shocking! I’m 71, when I was in high school in 68 through 1971. I brought a girl I liked who just transferred to my school for dinner and my mom ordered me to take her home as she wasn’t my taste. I was confused. Sure it was because she didn’t look like the “fresh clean” girls. My dad was Jewish, but he hid it till he died but we knew.

[@virginiagirl6628]

It's ok to be a friend of the Jews. I certainly am. My Savior was a Jew!

[@perrywilliams4593]

At 17:10 in this video the father says: " you could make things a lot easier on yourself if you gave in and went along with the crowd". 😦 I wonder if that all so applies to jumping off bridges? 🤔 This is why it takes so long to rid the world of injustice. 😕 This dad is a real profile in courage! 😠 But after all father knows best. Although I'm not entirely sure he does. 😒

[@LadyCoyKoi]

" you could make things a lot easier on yourself if you gave in and went along with the crowd" But isn't that what we all do everyday when we wake up and go be a good wage slave... errr... I mean debt slaves?. You may criticize what the dad says, but go ahead and stop working, lets see how far you will go without following the economic system of our current nations. You and I are victims and associates of this corrupt, broken social system that relies on us being debt slaves. Go against the crowd and you will be threaten with starvation, homelessness and lonesomeness. These are facts.

[@Lucailey]

He is right sadly but, that is taking the easy way out. He wanted his daughter to know that it was her choice to keep the bracelet or to take it off.

[@etheladdams2562]

I think as a father, he was in a complicated position. He did not want to see her daughter suffer, so he told her there was an easy option. But he also said he was not going to tell her what to do and let her make her own decision because he also knew she was fighting against prejudice. I think he did the right thing. He gave choices and was supportive. People in the town probably still looked down on the girl and the parents as well, but the parents kept their promise and respected the girl's choice, which was to choose justice over easiness. Now if he had said decisively, "keep on doing what you're doing because it's the right thing to do" some people would have questioned that, because he knew that was making her daughter segregated, lonely, and sad. It must have been difficult for the whole family.

[@Emcostanza666]

He wasn’t telling her to go along with the crowd. He was just acknowledging that many times it IS easier to succumb to peer pressure

[@stoneinyan2070]

what a lovely short. honestly, sometimes I've wished middle class whites could see things from our side (cultures and races still experiencing covert racism). this girl was lovely in the first place though! if only the bigoted, closed minded (who rarely recognize that they are racist) could spend a moment in our shoes!! then tell us to "just forget" our history!

[@momento_mori_carpe_diem7998]

stone inyan the thing is that even tho I am white people always act racist when they hear my mum's Russian accent or know that my last name is Italian.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Racism? Hon, it's CULTURISM. People have pretty much got over the fact that some people look different. It's how some act that turns 'em off.

[@nobodyuknow6337]

I'm white and was a victim of prejudice as a child for being poor. The bullies were black, white, Asian, Native American and whoever else. They didn't look at the color of my skin just the holes in my shoes.😖

[@ucimyy4u]

Make America NICE Again!

[@tiffanyc7729]

OMG im exactly like her!!!!

[@ew1usnr]

I am not an enemy of anyone either.

[@versacegang42]

I wonder if Bea Benederet was prejudiced growing up?

[@kbeautician]

Jack is a hottie…

[@lucindaryan806]

Aaaaaand now we have the BFF element thrown in again...

[@giovannag6589]

anyone know what song is playing at the beginning?

[@Terry-m2g8u]

Professor Sandoval from the side of Paradise Star Trek

[@cmeves]

Can someone explain this to me? I found myself confused the entire time. Were the Jewish people not liked, adored and felt extremely sorry for after the horrors of WWII were shown? I mean even before the war, they weren't shunned to that level at all were they? (In the U.S. obviously). I could be showing my extreme ignorance here but I had no clue AFTER the war, Jewish people were still looked down on? Why??

[@julienielsen3746]

If you want to know the truth Jewish people have been hated it's because they were/are God's people. Satan has always hated God's people. The Jews from the beginning, and later Christians who are adopted children of God. Satan talks people into hating those who are God's people, and those who are different from themselves, because that is one of his tools to try to destroy people, by causing strife between them. God is love, satan is hate.

[@KateGladstone]

Yes, these things happened, all over the USA. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States

[@4ucarla885]

The Poem, “You Got to Be Taught to Hate and Fear” You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, You've got to be carefully taught!

[@lorrinatreadway2938]

The kid sister I think was Patty Duke...am I right?

[@OakhillSailor]

Apparently people don't take their shoes off

[@redhood1228]

I remember in high-school read The Diary of Anne Frank at first I didn't understand it but the more I read it the more sadness I felt how people would cast a part just because they worshiped were they were different I have a friend who is Jewish and a couple of teachers I know I still talk to them I'm Catholic and I have a couple friends who were Christian people get us confused and tell as we believe in the same thing of course we do but Christians don't believe in Mary bit by bit people would change over time I didn't like the lady how she was think of the young girl was Jewish you have to love everyone no matter what religion or what they believe in but sometimes people just assume things and don't really take the time to listen we have to love and respect everyone but now the times of change and all now we can still love I would never hurt a person

[@julienielsen3746]

If you are Catholic you are a Christian. If you believe in Jesus you are a Christian. I think you mean Protestant. I am Protestant. We know that Mary was Jesus' mother, but we do not pray to her, because it says in the Holy Bible to pray to Jesus. It does not say to pray to Mary, or to any "saint."

[@mark-xx1lt]

There's a few million people who might benefit from watching this film today and reading The Diary 0f Anne Frank.

[@MintStew1]

If she had gone without her friends to the shop no one would have even have known, they would have just seen her with a pretty new bracelet. Don't ask don't tell or Nunya business

[@Cooltea1983]

How does a Mexican guy get a Jewish guys attention? The Mexican guy's yells " Hey Jew!" really loudly...

[@Twan1985]

The dad looks like Commissioner Gordon lol

[@teresaj.4103]

The more things supposedly change...the more they stay the same. All of this drama over a bracelet her little sister gave her for her birthday. Just because the symbols are Jewish??? This is so stupid....but still it continues to this day. I'm sure the hateful mom in this would've dropped dead on the spot if her daughter brought home a friend that happened to be black.

[@mwa1252]

Is that Patty Duke?

[@shaggylocks]

It is indeed: good eye!

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Wrong! That's her cousin Cathy.

[@BeauSC4Ever]

Imagine....not a single girl twerking at the party!

[@bonniegaither3994]

Can’t believe they had actual porcelain coffee cups

[@Lucailey]

this is very similar to the Muslim situation today. I remember writing once that every time you use the term Muslim in a derogatory way, imagine you are using the word Jew instead. Do you sound like a Nazi? Well, if you do then don't say it about any other religions either.

[@phoenixgrove]

MidnightFlower13 fuck you bitch!

[@moviestarmemories630]

Thanx soooo much PC police.This is still the USA.Free speech.Suck it up buttercup, or go to your safe space.

[@psychedelicpython]

Years ago I had a friend who was a Muslim. We were going to be married. One of my brothers best friend is Jewish and he hated me for my fiance. At 22 years of age I didn't understand what was going on with the Muslims and Jews and my brother and his friend refused to explain it to me. I ended up not marrying the man who was Lebanon and Muslim, but to this day my brothers Jewish friend has never forgiven me...and I could care less. I don't hate my brothers friend nor anyone because of their nationality or religion.

[@Emcostanza666]

@@moviestarmemories630that’s not how free speech works bud. You can still get your ass kicked

[@chonkershahn307]

6:30 Of course what happened in Eisenhower's death camps wasn't common knowledge back then.

[@KateGladstone]

Tell us about it ...

[@lolabigcups7121]

Whats funny is this video is showing how a white girl was subjected to this kind of treatment because she wore a bracelet that calibrated another group of people who by the way were being discriminated against.

[@itsthatingallsgirl704]

Notice Jack never paid for that book, he just walked right outta there. Hmmm.

[@terieber]

he paid. watch it again.

[@terieber]

He paid. Watch it again.

[@Kamjam1000]

Just look how well dressed everyone was back in the day... shame we devolved to transparent plastic jeans and getting crazy over a pair of fucking sneakers

[@nancymcmonarch]

Because . . . going crazy over some random girl's fucking bracelet was so much more civilized?

[@kbeautician]

It’s the Marxist Commie takeover now

[@JulietteZephyr]

She asks 'do you think the Jews are going to object' about wearing the bracelet. Hmm, I think that'd be cultural appropriation these days! I have this cool satin jacket I got in Chinatown when I was in middle school. I don't wear it out of the house 'cause of haters. Also had an awkward experience at the local art show as a high schooler when I was selling some origami trinkets - two old ladies came by my booth and remarked, 'You don't look Oriental!' When it is done respectfully, I see no issues with borrowing food, attire, et cetera from another culture.

[@corvus1374]

Do kids attend PTA meetings?

[@detectivefiction3701]

It wasn't a PTA meeting but more like a school assembly with parents present.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

If, as the intro says, American teen-agers have an "unerring instinct for juvenile DECENCY", why does this film show so many kids who don't?

[@detectivefiction3701]

Well, because it's a drama. You can't have drama without conflict, and you can't have conflict if most of the characters are nice.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@@detectivefiction3701 I think it has more to do with trying to change people's view on a subject. Must have worked, because in the 1960's, I saw nothing like what is depicted here. But this is California, and I never saw a trace of racism of any kind. Could have been wildly different in say, Alabama.