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Attend a play, listen
to music or go to a dance performance by artists whose race
or ethnicity is different from your own. |
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Volunteer at a local
social services organization. |
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Attend services at a
variety of churches, synagogues and temples to learn about different
faiths. |
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Visit a local senior
citizens center and collect oral histories. Donate large-print
reading materials and books on tape. Offer to help with a craft
project. |
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Shop at ethnic grocery
stores and specialty markets. Get to know the owners. Ask about
their family histories. |
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Participate in a diversity
program. |
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Ask a person of another
cultural heritage to teach you how to perform a traditional
dance or cook a traditional meal. |
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Learn sign language.
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Take a conversation course
in another language that is spoken in your community. |
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Teach an adult to read.
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Speak up when you hear
slurs. Let people know that bias speech is always unacceptable.
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Imagine what your life
might be like if you were a person of another race, gender or
sexual orientation. How might "today" have been different?
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Take the How Tolerant
are You? A
Test of Hidden Bias. Enlist some friends to take this "hidden
bias" test with you and discuss the results. |
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Take a Civil Rights history
vacation. Tour key sites and museums. |
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Research your family
history. Share information about your heritage in talks with
others. |
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List all the stereotypes
you can positive and negative about a particular
group. Are these stereotypes reflected in your actions? |
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Think about how you appear
to others. List personality traits that are compatible with
tolerance (e.g., compassion, curiosity, openness). List those
that seem incompatible with tolerance (e.g., jealousy, bossiness,
perfectionism). |
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Create a "diversity
profile" of your friends, co-workers and acquaintances.
Set the goal of expanding it by next year. |
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Sign
the Declaration of Tolerance and return it to: |
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The National Campaign for Tolerance
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
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Read a book or watch
a movie about another culture. |