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Different is Good This PowerPoint presentation is about helping people to accept differences and bring cultures together.  After all, differences make the world go round.

Introduction We’ve seen many different people from different cultures, have you?  Cultures are the different ways in which people live. Should you treat people from other countries differently than you’d treat someone of your own culture?  No matter black or white, American or Italian, you should treat people the way you would like to be treated.

Introduction (continued) Every culture in the world has traditions.  Traditions are customs and ways of doing things that are passed on from parents to children. Have you ever seen people from another country or culture so something that you thought was unusual?  Just think, that person might think that some of the things that you do are strange! Like eating a hot dog or playing football! By the way, if you see a “DQ” it means it is a Discussion Question so you can talk about it in your class or family.

Each Culture Has Their Own Traditions DQ: What would you think if you knew someone who did these things? Did you know that some countries don’t celebrate Christmas? People in Pakistan dress up their camels! In Russia they jump in a cold river in winter. In the Netherlands they wear wooden shoes to keep their feet dry. Many people in the Middle East pray five times a day while facing Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Being Uneducated Is No Excuse DQ: Is it fair to think people from other cultures are bad because you don’t know anything about them? What you can do… Check out our Web site & read about other cultures Visit other countries Meet people from other cultures

Judge For Yourself DQ: Should you be mean to someone from another culture just because your friends are doing it? What can you do? Help the person doing the teasing to learn more about the other culture Tell them to stop Get an adult Make sure you don’t do it

Take A Walk In Somebody Else’s Shoes DQ: If you went to a friend’s birthday party and you saw a roasted pig on the dinner table what would you do? Accept it Think that your friend thinks that  some of the things you do are weird Pretend that it is a birthday cake Understand that eating roasted pig is common in that person’s culture

Culture To Culture DQ: If you were able to spend a day with someone from another culture what would you do? Do the same thing that they are doing? Teach them your culture’s customs? Ask them lots of questions about their culture so that you understand them better?

Other Questions That You Might Ask What might you learn while visiting in another country? Name some traditions that are in your own culture that other cultures would find unusual. What would be important for you to know about another country before going there? What would it be like to live in a country with people whose customs are very different than ours?

We hope that you have learned many lessons from this PowerPoint presentation.

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