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Option A:

Attend a festival, concert, art gallery, religious ceremony (with the permission of the community), visit the home of a friend from another culture, or read a book by an author from a different culture than yourself. If you have an idea not listed here, email me your idea.

Option B:
Watch a movie with a multicultural theme. I’d prefer that they all take place in a working environment, but that would have severely limited the selection and representation. Choose one that is about an experience very different from your own, even if it makes you uncomfortable.

List of movies to choose from:

The Kite Runner (2007)
The Other Side of Immigration (2010)
7 Years in Tibet (1997)
Namesake (2006)
Bend it Like Beckham (2002)
The Debut (2000)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Moonlight (2016)
Imprint (2007)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Coco (2017)
Babies (2010)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
The Big Sick (2017)
Sorry To Bother You (2018)

The assignment:

1. Choose either Option A or B. Before you begin your experience, write what the culture is that you will be learning about, what you know about that culture, and which of the 10 daily biases (from http://www.cookross.com/docs/everyday_bias.pdf pg9-11) you believe influence your view of that culture. Biases: Diagnosis, pattern recognition, value attribution, confirmation behavior, automatic perception, selective attention/inattentional blindness, priming effect, commitment confirmation/loss aversion, stereotype threat, anchoring bias.

2. After you you write your expectations, do either Option A or B. During it, take notes about what you are learning, what is happening, how people are responding, and the biases you are able to see in others as well as yourself. Again, demonstrate that you have a solid understanding of the course material.

3. Take your notes and reflect on the experience. Write 2-3 paragraphs summarizing your experience.

4. Evaluate and analyze your experience. Things to consider will be what you learned from the experience, has it changed your beliefs and/or perceptions of that cultural identity? Do you feel more comfortable, or less after the experience?

*OPTIONAL*5. How/why does “The Evolving Language of Diversity” (https://www.adl.org/media/9779/download) makes the most sense to you and how did you apply it to your experience

Assignment should be 3-4 pages, single spaced with proper MLA citations (in total, paper will be 3-4 pages of written content + Works Cited page).

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