Diversity and Microagressions: Strategies for Making a Difference: Activities

A list of name games and how to play them.
Popular names games on the list include: 2 Truths and a Lie; The Story of My Name.

Participants are asked to pair up and discuss the history/story of their names.
Participants are then called on to share interesting stories about the history of their name(s).

This activity can be used as an Ice Breaker if you use a single card, or people can play with the deck as the main part of an event.

To acquire Pass It On playing cards please contact:
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https://wiki.uiowa.edu/download/.../Cultural+Pursuit+Activity.pdf
https://www.msu.edu/~mandrews/global/Cultural%20Pursuit.pdf
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vucept/modules-open-sessions/stereotypes-in-my-community/
https://www.stpaul.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/3572

This resource by the McKay School of Education contains information and instructions regarding: In-Class Multicultural Diversity Activities; Lesson Plan Adaptation Activities; Activities That Foster Cultural Sensitivity; and Activities That Foster Critical Thinking About Diversity.

This resource was developed by the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Research and Cooperative Extension.

Highlights a variety of cross-cultural and intercultural games with short descriptions and links to detailed instructions on how to play and discuss the games.

Use this site for examples of everyday microagressions. Creating awareness of microaggressions, and discussing why they are microagressions, can change the way people interact and think about each other.

"This blog seeks to provide a visual representation of the everyday of “microaggressions.” Each event, observation and experience posted is not necessarily particularly striking in and of themselves. Often, they are never meant to hurt - acts done with little conscious awareness of their meanings and effects. Instead, their slow accumulation during a childhood and over a lifetime is in part what defines a marginalized experience, making explanation and communication with someone who does not share this identity particularly difficult. Social others are microaggressed hourly, daily, weekly, monthly.

This project is NOT about showing how ignorant people can be in order to simply dismiss their ignorance. Instead, it is about showing how these comments create and enforce uncomfortable, violent and unsafe realities onto peoples’ workplace, home, school, childhood/adolescence/adulthood, and public transportation/space environments."

"...Step 3... effective multicultural communicating requires you to “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” This is the Platinum Rule. It sets an even higher standard than the Golden Rule, because you need to be sensitive to, learn about, or ask about what’s appropriate in the other person’s culture, and then follow their lead."