Workshop on Empathy and Discrimination Riddle and Reflection
Explore the workshop on empathy and discrimination through an intriguing riddle, a thought-provoking scenario, and a reflection on negating opposites. Reflect on biases and societal perceptions.
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Workshop 11 Empathy & Discrimination
Riddle me this A man and his son are victims in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to hospital for life-saving surgery. The surgeon arrives at the operating theatre and says, I cannot operate on this child, he is my son.
Who wrote this? We put down briefly in Khartoum, where we changed to an Ethiopian Airways flight to Addis. Here I experienced a rather strange sensation. As I was boarding the plane I saw that the pilot was black. I had never seen a black pilot before, and the instant I did I had to quell my panic. How could a black man fly a plane? But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the [ ] mind- set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man s job. I sat back in my seat, and chided myself for such thoughts
The principle of Negating Opposites It doesn t matter which faction events have placed you in. What matters is for you to comprehend that you haven t chosen any faction.
