10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa -

10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice

UC Berkeley professor Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton provides research-based tips for overcoming prejudices based on differences. Here are his top ten strategies, summarized: Travel (somewhere that challenges your worldview); Take a course on prejudice; If you value egalitarianism, recognize that unconscious bias is no more "the real you" than your conscious values; Laugh a little -- smiles and happiness help trump racial bias; Recategorize other people according to characteristics that you share; Do your part to save the planet; Stay healthy -- a sense of security promotes tolerance of other worldviews; Acknowledge differences, rather than try to fight an uphill battle to ignore them; Remember that people are really bad mind-readers, so communicate; Make a cross-race friend. This in-depth article shares further. { read more }

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Make a conscious effort to be aware of preconceived notions -- and to stop propagating them internally.


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Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

- Angela Schwindt -

Where Children Sleep: A Poignant Photo Series

'Where Children Sleep' is a remarkable series capturing the diversity of and, often, disparity between children's lives around the world through portraits of their bedrooms. Kenyan-born, English-raised, Venice-based documentary photographer James Mollison explores the topic with poignancy. The project began on a brief to engage with children's rights and morphed into a thoughtful meditation on poverty and privilege, its 56 images spanning from the stone quarries of Nepal to the farming provinces of China to the silver spoons of Fifth Avenue. "From the start, I didn't want it just to be about 'needy children' in the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about children from all types of situations. It seemed to make sense to photograph the children themselves, too, but separately from their bedrooms, using a neutral background," says Mollison, whose touching photos follow. { read more }

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What memories do you have of your childhood room? Share your reflection with other readers here. { more }


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A Storyteller of the Streets

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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A Storyteller of the Streets

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

- Gloria Naylor -

A Storyteller of the Streets

Most people have never walked down the street and looked for homeless people before -- most look the other way. But not Mark Horvath. A former Hollywood insider, Horvath has been a drug addict, con artist and, for a brief period, homeless. He says he's left that life behind, and these days, he's drawing on his past to inspire his Web site -- Invisiblepeople.tv. The site is a collection of YouTube-length video profiles of homeless people he's met across the country, and it's become a surprise hit in social media circles. Horvath heads down Hollywood's Walk of Fame, looking for homeless people. When he finds someone, he reaches into an overstuffed backpack and pulls out a bag of fresh white socks. Nearly everyone takes a pair. And when they do, Horvath pulls out a video camera and asks if he can interview them. { read more }

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Visit Mark's website InvisiblePeople.TV, which aims to change the story around homelessness. { more }


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Dogs with Custom Wheelchairs Inspire Rehab Patients

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Dogs with Custom Wheelchairs Inspire Rehab Patients

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller -

Dogs with Custom Wheelchairs Inspire Rehab Patients

Cruising in their custom wheelchairs, Chili and Arlo are the center of attention wherever they go. But for patients at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, these two canine caregivers are also an inspiration. "Many of the patients are new to wheelchairs," Linda Marler, the program's director told TODAY.com. "When they see Chili and Arlo, they say, 'If those dogs can do it, so can I.'" Chili and Arlo are the only dogs with disabilities among the 90 specially trained therapy dogs that participate in Baylor's Animal Assisted Therapy program. The canine volunteers make weekly visits to lift the spirits of patients who have suffered traumatic injuries or a stroke. "We use the dogs to create more of a home atmosphere and also to get a response," Marler said. She's found that animals will often elicit a reaction when every other method has failed. { read more }

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Consider the challenges you've overcome -- and share your process with someone who might benefit.


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Gifting Art

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Gifting Art

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

- Ingrid Bergman -

Gifting Art

A controversial statue led conversations.org founder Richard Whittaker to an unusual artist, Fredric Fierstein. The art piece itself was inspired from a place far off the beaten track. In Fredric's words: "When I've gotten out of the cities I've met people of the earth, I call them. They're not the kind of people you meet in the cities who are trying to hustle you. My guide, who spoke Thai and a few dialects, couldn't speak with this guy. That's how far out he was. I did find out from him, by sign language, that he was my age at that, which was so great! I had, I don't know if you'd call it a revelation, I realized that guy could have been me and I could have been him. It's so incredible." A rich dialogue follows. { read more }

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Reflect on a radically different and meaningful experience you've had -- does it inspire your own creativity?


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