Workshop - Diversity at our school 

In the Christmas atmosphere, on 19 December 2013 a workshop about diversity was realised at our school. At first all participants could experience financial diversity when playing a game about money. The aim of the game was to gain as much money as possible. After that, all students coming from another country introduced themselves and their home places. We have found out that our school is actually quite multicultural as we have students from Ukraine, Vietnam, Austria, Slovak Republic and Rumania and these students were talking about their experience with living in the Czech Republic. The discussion was really interesting and we leant a lot of surprising information about our "foreign" classmates and we could also hear some sentences in their mother languages. To demonstrate diversity of opinion, we organised an election and all students had to answer a question: Would you like to marry a foreigner? 93 students answered definitely yes. 12 students cannot imagine to marry a foreigner and 28 students would accept only a foreigner from Europe. The last activity of our workshop was creating of colourful posters. The students put a sticker on posters referring to different social groups they belong to. This activity revealed that there are 50% male and 50% females at our school, 50% of them live in a city and in a village approximately the same percent are single or in a relationship. The most popular communication media is face book, what a surprise, most of our students are carnivorous and their favourite type of music is different than given options - disco, techno or rap. Learning about others leads to cognition of ourselves and this workshop was a great example of this fact.

Lenka Lexová