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The Wave novel rooted in 1967 Palo Alto classroom experiment
Original: "The Wave" is based on an incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1967. The po
Interest is renewed in "The Wave," the novel based on a real 1967 incident at a high school in Palo Alto, California. History teacher Ron Jones conducted a classroom exercise recreating the group pressure behind movements like Nazism, showing how quickly students conformed. Commenters are highlighting the experiment's enduring lesson about fascism and peer pressure.
Why now: People are discussing the historical experiment and its warnings about group conformity and fascism.
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- "The Wave" is based on an incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1967. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Ron Jones introduces… · IngridHbn@mastodon.online · 1
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