Diversity Thumball 6"
ISBN TB-TW-BLTHAD6
We live in a diverse world. Some differences are visible, like skin colour, gender, height or weight, physical challenges and age. Others may not be visually apparent, but still affect how individuals feel or are treated: ethnicity, socio-economic position, sexual orientation, virginity, use or non-use of alcohol, allergies, intellect, depression and other emotional diseases.
Diversity Thumball questions:
1. When did you first become aware of racial/ethnic differences?2. Share a situation when you were in the minority
3. Describe a time you witnessed discrimination
4. Your best experience with a person of a different race/ethnicity
5. What makes you different?
6. How do your thoughts about diversity differ from your parents’?
7. Describe a time you experienced prejudice
8. Where do you see prejudice?
9. How do you respond to jokes that are demeaning or derogatory?
10. A time you felt like an outsider and how you dealt with it
11. An instance when someone went out of their way to make you feel included?
12. A time you went out of your way to make someone feel included?
13. A time you shared an unpopular idea
14. Describe a time you felt lonely in a big group of people
15. Why do you seek out people similar to you as friends?
16. Do you feel your friends are more similar or dissimilar to you?
17. Which would be harder for you: looking different or feeling different?
18. A behavior you encountered that you found disrespectful
19. What would be hardest about being confined to a wheelchair?
20. What would be hardest about having an unseen difference or disability?
21. What would be hardest about being gay?
22. What would be hardest about being transsexual?
23. Should companies/school close for all religious holidays? Why or why not?
24. Name 2 ways in which men and women are treated differently?
25. Is it easier to be male or female? Why?
26. Name 1-2 ways the elderly experience discrimination?
27. How can we promote acceptance of differences?
28. How might you personally combat discrimination?
29. What gives you hope that people are becoming more accepting of diversity?
30. What’s your generation's biggest challenge when it comes to acceptance?
31. What are the benefits of diversity?
Conversations about diversity and bias can be emotionally charged. The goal is to share experiences of feeling different or excluded and identify ways to create a more welcoming, diverse and compassionate community. Diversity Thumball comes with a full set of Facilitation notes to set the ground rules for a fruitful discussion. A few samples follow:
- Critique ideas not people
- Speak only for yourself
- No personal attacks
- Listen - make sure everyone feels heard and validated
- Only one person speaks at a time
- Use "I" statements
- Agree to disagree; disagree without being disagreeable
- Be positive and non-judgemental; open to new ideas
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