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What did we realize from the movie Crash?
• Everyone is capable of horrible crimes.• Everyone is capable of wonderful acts of humanitarianism.• Everyone has good and bad points to their character.• If you concentrate on a person’s bad points - then that person becomes horrible.• If you concentrate on a person’s good points - then that person is wonderful.
It’s Your Choice
You can deliberately look for differences in others and form fears, prejudices, judgments, and negative opinions; this leads to discrimination, pain, mistrust, anger, and a horrible way to live.
It’s Your Choice
You can deliberately look for the differences in others and form interests, curiosities, opportunities for learning, chances to better understand the human race, and enrichment; this leads to wisdom, contentment, and an opportunity to better understand the awesome potential of being human.
Crash
• Each person creates his or her own realities in forming opinions.
• Let’s look at some examples.
What is this to you?
• Beautiful!• Sexy!• Adventuresome!• Fun!• Exciting!• Precision
engineering!• Statement of success!• Envy of others!
What is this to you?
• Impractical• Expensive• Only carries 2 people• Only skinny people will fit!• High insurance cost• Very small luggage/cargo
area• Attracts police attention• Looks like a male,
insecure, sexual statement
What do you see?
• High adventure!• Free spirit!• Total freedom!• Fun!• Girl catcher!• Sexy!• Symbol of
independence• Great gas mileage!
What do you see?
• Dangerous!• Impractical!• Undesirable person,
hoodlum, untrustworthy!
• Gangs, trouble, vandalism, fear!
• Loud Noise!• Broken bones, injury!
What is this to you?
• Comfort!• Good mileage• Carries six people &
luggage - versatile• Sleek, smooth lines• Beautiful• Nice misty cloud
silver gray in color!
What is this to you?
• Old lady’s car• Boring 4 DR sedan• Something you’re dad
would drive.• Drab color makes it
worse• Too big and
cumbersome!• Looks like every other
car.
What if this was yours?
• Magnificent!• Sleek, beautiful!• The optimum
adventure!• A lifetime of luxury!• True symbol of
success!• Prestige!• Great
accomplishment!
What if this was yours?• Impractical• A waste of money-there
are hungry people everywhere!
• Show off & snobbish• Only insecure people
need this icon• Can’t justify the cost• Dangerous toy• I’d rather fly
commercially, it’s safer!
What do you see?
• A beautify spot!• Pure tranquility!• Proof there is a god!• An ideal place to retire!• Ultimate peace!• The world’s best place to
meditate!• Great trout fishing!• Photographers paradise!• Campers heaven!
What do you see?
• A place for dangerous bears and mountain lions!
• Lost, desolate - too far from civilization!
• No people, no action, no excitement-I’d go crazy!
• I’d freeze to death!• No phones, TV, shopping
malls - I'd be boarded!• If I’d get hurt, I’d slowly
die – no one could help me!
What does this bring to mind?
• A miracle of nature!• God’s micro beauty!• The spirit of winter!• Teaches us to
appreciate the smaller things
• Pure wonderment!• The magic of what we
don’t see!
What does this bring to mind?
• I hate snow!• Snow tires, antifreeze
for the car!• High heating bills!• Heart attack
shoveling snow!• Slush, salt, cold, yuk!• Winter colds &
sickness!
What do you know about this person?
• Fashion Model?• Movie Star?• School teacher?• Business owner?• Hair dresser?• Owns a Chinese
restaurant?• UN ambassador?
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
The daughter of one of the Burma’s most cherished heroes, the martyred General Aung San, who led his country’s fight for independence from Great Britain in the 1940s and was killed for his beliefs in 1947. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has equaled her father’s heroics with her calm but passionate advocacy of freedom and democracy in the country now called Myanmar, a name chosen by one of the most insensitive and brutal military dictatorships in the world. She has come to be seen internationally as a symbol of heroic and peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991, by which time she had been under house arrest for two out of what was to become six years.
What kind of person is this?
• Owns a Spanish restaurant?
• Comedian in South America?
• Author of children’s books?
• Native American Indian?
Rigoberta Menchú
She lost both her parents, two brothers, a sister-in-law, and three nieces and nephews to the brutal rape, torture, and killing practices of the Guatemalan security forces. She worked as an activist campaigning against human rights violations committed by the Guatemalan armed forces during the country's civil war that lasted from 1960 to 1996. She ran for president of Guatemala last year and currently serves as presidential goodwill ambassador for the 1996 peace accords.
Nelson Mandela – 11th president of South Africa
Among opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of freedom and equality, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him as a communist terrorist.Following his release from prison in 1990, his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even by former opponents.Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
What can you tell about him?
• CEO for Oral Robert’s Ministries?
• CEO for the Peace Corp?
• Ambassador for Korea to the UN?
• Freedom fighter for Asian prison camps?
Than Shwe, Burma (Myanmar). Ranked as the 3rd worst dictator in the world!
Burma leads the world in the use of children as soldiers, and the regime is notorious for using forced labor on construction projects and as porters for the army in war zones. Than Shwe's government has continued the persecution of Myanmar's ethnic minorities, such as the Karen and Shan peoples. He launched a campaign of repression against Muslims in Myanmar's north that forced an estimated 250,000 people to flee to Bangladesh as refugees. The long-standing house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and Than Shweâs most feared opponent, recently was extended for six months. Just to drive near her heavily guarded home is to risk arrest.
What kind of person is this?• Founder of the Christian Children's Fund?• President of the national PTA?• A tortured Nazi prisoner and founder of Amnesty
International?• Politician supporting children’s rights in Brazil?
Ginetta Sagan:
Ginetta was tortured, starved and suffered unspeakable inhumanities when she was captured by the Nazis at age 20. Her parents were tortured and killed. She has been personally responsible for the release of political prisoners in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Latin America and South Africa. 6,000 prisoners in Vietnam have been set free due to Ginetta's unrelenting campaigns. Her life has been threatened hundreds of times. Unafraid, she seeks and achieves the release of thousands of prisoners of conscience. She is never daunted. She formed the West Coast chapter of Amnesty International.
What kind of person is this?
• National youth-group fighter for reduction of poverty for the UN?
• Leader of UNICEF for the African nations?
• President of the Boy Scouts of America?
• A bum living on the streets?
Ted Bundy
He was the dapper, charming monster who confessed to killing 28 women during a 4-year reign of terror and may have killed as many as 100 before he was jailed and executed.
Want to meet this guy at night in a dark alley?
Bruce Potts
• Public speaking teacher at University of New Mexico
• Teaches how not to judge others by their appearance
• Teaches tolerance and acceptance of others
• A hero
Diversity
• Cram’s definition: one’s abilities, interests, talents, experiences, beliefs, customs, culture, points-of-view, rituals, influences, networks, assets, and any beneficial characteristic distinguishing one person from another.
Diversity's Advantage
Seek out the differences in others and then celebrate them, for such diversity is the true potpourri of humanity and is enriched with the acquired wisdom of the entire human experience.
