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TALKING FLAGS

Keywords: Migrants; Diversity; Similarity
Objectives: Understanding the similarities between people from different migration backgrounds.
Target group: Groups of people, such as work colleagues, from different migration backgrounds but with a common language.
Duration: 60 minutes
Methodology step-by- step: 1. Hand out pieces of different coloured cardboard.
2. Take it in turns to say the colour on your piece of cardboard. Each person with that colour in their national flag should say 3 positive things about the society in their country and 3 negative things that need to change.
3. Repeat with a different colour.
NOTE: It is possible to ask the participants to dress in the colours of their national flag to enable everyone to get to know the different national flags.
Resources needed: Coloured cardboard
Paper
Pens
Challenges: This exercise must be able to establish equality and emphasise the similarity between people from different backgrounds. The greatest risk of this method is that it may generate intolerance.