What did we realize from

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What did we realize from the movie Crash?
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• Everyone is capable of horrible crimes.
• Everyone is capable of wonderful acts of
  humanitarianism.
• Everyone has good and bad points to their
  character.
• If you concentrate on a persons bad points -
  then that person, in your opinion, becomes
  horrible.
• If you concentrate on a persons good points -
  then that person, in your opinion, is wonderful.

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Its Your Choice

• You can deliberately look for differences in
  others, think they are bad, and form fears,
  prejudices, judgments, and negative opinions.
  This leads to discrimination, pain, mistrust,
  anger, and a horrible way to live.

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Its Your Choice

• You can deliberately look for the differences
  in others, consider them good, and form
  interests, curiosities, opportunities for
  learning, enrichment, and chances to better
  understand the human race. This leads to wisdom,
  contentment, peace, self-esteem, and an
  opportunity to better understand the awesome
  potential of being human.

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Crash

• Each person creates his or her own realities in
  forming opinions.
• Lets look at some examples of how we do this.

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What is this to you?

• Beautiful!
• Sexy!
• Adventuresome!
• Fun!
• Exciting!
• Precision engineering!
• Statement of success!
• Envy of others!

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What is this to you?

• Impractical
• Expensive
• Only carries 2 people
• Only skinny people will fit!
• High insurance cost
• Very small luggage/cargo area
• Attracts police attention
• Looks like a male, insecure, sexual statement

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What do you see?

• High adventure!
• Free spirit!
• Total freedom!
• Fun!
• Girl catcher!
• Sexy!
• Symbol of independence
• Great gas mileage!

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What do you see?

• Dangerous!
• Impractical!
• Undesirable person, hoodlum, untrustworthy!
• Gangs, trouble, vandalism, fear!
• Loud Noise!
• Broken bones, injury!

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What is this to you?

• Comfort!
• Good mileage
• Carries six people luggage - versatile
• Sleek, smooth lines
• Beautiful
• Nice misty cloud silver gray in color!

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What is this to you?

• Old ladys car
• Boring 4 DR sedan
• Something youre dad would drive.
• Drab color makes it worse
• Too big and cumbersome!
• Looks like every other car.

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What if this was yours?

• Magnificent!
• Sleek, beautiful!
• The optimum adventure!
• A lifetime of luxury!
• True symbol of success!
• Prestige!
• Great accomplishment!

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What if this was yours?

• Impractical
• A waste of money-there are hungry people
  everywhere!
• Show off snobbish
• Only insecure people need this icon
• Cant justify the cost
• Dangerous toy
• Id rather fly commercially, its safer!

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What do you see?

• A beautify spot!
• Pure tranquility!
• Proof there is a god!
• An ideal place to retire!
• Ultimate peace!
• The worlds best place to meditate!
• Great trout fishing!
• Photographers paradise!
• Campers heaven!

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What do you see?

• A place for dangerous bears and mountain lions!
• Lost, desolate - too far from civilization!
• No people, no action, no excitement-Id go crazy!
• Id freeze to death!
• No phones, TV, shopping malls - I'd be boarded!
• If Id get hurt, Id slowly die no one could
  help me!

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What does this bring to mind?

• A miracle of nature!
• Gods micro beauty!
• The spirit of winter!
• Teaches us to appreciate the smaller things
• Pure wonderment!
• The magic of what we dont see!

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What does this bring to mind?

• I hate snow!
• Snow tires, antifreeze for the car!
• High heating bills!
• Heart attack shoveling snow!
• Slush, salt, cold, yuk!
• Winter colds sickness!

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What do you know about this person?

• Fashion Model?
• Movie Star?
• School teacher?
• Business owner?
• Hair dresser?
• Social worker?
• Housewife?
• UN ambassador?

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In 1963, Sonia Pierre was born in the poorest and
most vulnerable Dominican Republic sugar
cane-cutters settlement. Her father died when
she was two her mother was a sugar cane cutter.
Dominican children of Haitian descent were
denied, education, health services, and basic
human rights.
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Anti-Haitian feelings fueled violent attacks in
Haitian communities resulting in assassinations
and massive round ups and expulsions to Haiti,
during which families were split and women and
children were subject to sexual abuse and
violence by military personnel.
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At 13 years of age, Sonia was arrested for
speaking at a demonstration on behalf of Haitian
migrant laborers. In 1983, she founded the
Movement of Dominican Women of Haitian Descent
and has served as its director for 18 years.
Among violence, imprisonment, and threats to her
life, Sonia has devoted herself to her people
becoming one of the nations leading grassroots
activists developing educational, labor rights,
and health care programs for her people. She won
the Robert F. Kennedy Peace Award.
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What kind of person is this?

• Owns a Spanish restaurant?
• Comedian in South America?
• Author of childrens books?
• Native American Indian?

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Rigoberta Menchú She lost both her parents, two
brothers, a sister-in-law, and three nieces and
nephews to the brutal rape, torture, and killing
practices of the Guatemalan security forces. She
worked as an activist campaigning against human
rights violations committed by the Guatemalan
armed forces during the country's civil war that
lasted from 1960 to 1996. She ran for president
of Guatemala last year and currently serves as
presidential goodwill ambassador for the 1996
peace accords.
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Nelson Mandela 11th president of South
Africa Among opponents of Apartheid in South
Africa and internationally, he became a symbol of
freedom and equality, while the Apartheid
government and nations sympathetic to it
condemned him as a communist terrorist. Following
his release from prison in 1990, his switch to a
policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped
lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in
South Africa. Since the end of Apartheid, he has
been widely praised, even by former
opponents. Mandela has received more than one
hundred awards over four decades, most notably
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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What can you tell about him?

• CEO for Oral Roberts Ministries?
• CEO for the Peace Corp?
• Ambassador for Korea to the UN?
• Freedom fighter for Asian prison camps?

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Than Shwe, Burma (Myanmar). Ranked as the 3rd
worst dictator in the world!Burma leads the
world in the use of children as soldiers, and the
regime is notorious for using forced labor on
construction projects and as porters for the army
in war zones. Than Shwe's government has
continued the persecution of Myanmar's ethnic
minorities, such as the Karen and Shan peoples.
He launched a campaign of repression against
Muslims in Myanmar's north that forced an
estimated 250,000 people to flee to Bangladesh as
refugees. The long-standing house arrest of Aung
San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
and Than Shweâs most feared opponent, recently
was extended for six months. Just to drive near
her heavily guarded home is to risk arrest.
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What kind of person is this?

• Founder of the Christian Children's Fund?
• President of the national PTA?
• A tortured Nazi prisoner and founder of Amnesty
  International?
• A politician supporting childrens rights in
  Brazil?
• A well-known and respected animal rights
  activist?

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Ginetta Sagan Ginetta was tortured, starved,
and suffered unspeakable inhumanities when she
was captured by the Nazis at age 16. Her parents
and other family members were tortured and killed
by the Nazis. She escaped with the help of a
sympathetic Nazi guard. Instead of being filled
with hate, she spent the rest of her life
confronting the worlds cruelest dictators
negotiating the release of thousands of political
prisoners.
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She has been personally responsible for the
release of political prisoners in Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Latin America, and South Africa.
6,000 prisoners in Vietnam have been set free due
to Ginetta's unrelenting campaigns. Her
life has been threatened hundreds of times.
Unafraid, she seeks and achieves the release of
thousands of prisoners of conscience. She is
never daunted. She formed the West Coast chapter
of Amnesty International. She is 4 feet 11
inches in tall.
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What kind of person is this?

• A national youth-group fighter for reduction of
  poverty working for the United Nations?
• The leader of UNICEF for the African nations?
• President of the Boy Scouts of America?
• An Italian movie star and national heart throb?

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Meet Ted Bundy

He was the dapper, charming monster who confessed to killing 28 women during a 4-year reign of terror and may have killed as many as 100 before he was jailed and executed.
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Want to meet this guy at night in a dark alley?
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Bruce Potts

• Public speaking teacher at University of New
  Mexico
• Teaches how not to judge others by their
  appearance
• Teaches tolerance and acceptance of others
• A hero

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Diversity

• Crams definition ones abilities, interests,
  talents, experiences, beliefs, customs, culture,
  points-of-view, rituals, influences, networks,
  assets, and any beneficial characteristic
  distinguishing one person from another.

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Diversity's Advantage

• Seek out the differences in others and then
  celebrate them, for such diversity is the true
  potpourri of humanity and is enriched with the
  acquired wisdom of the entire human experience.

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Your mind is a very fertile place!

• Whatever you plant there will grow abundantly.
• self-righteousness, prejudice, hate,
  selfishness,
• intolerance, greed, fear,
• or
• kindness, understanding, acceptance, mercy,
  patience, or love.The crop you allow to
  germinate is up to you - its your mind its
  your choice
• its your life!