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Students: Story Circle ストーリーサークル 55 minutes / 55 分

Sharing what diversity, inclusion, and discrimination mean for us

Sun, Oct 22, 12:50-13:45 Asia/Tokyo

Location: 西 1 213

In this Story Circle let us share stories of what diversity, inclusion, and discrimination in society mean for us in our own lives and society. A key principle of the 2030 Agenda is inclusiveness, but what does that mean in everyday life, within different social areas like education, sports, and employment? In my own case I was born in Japan as a child of Brazilian parents. I now speak Japanese, Portuguese, and English. As a person who grew up in a society which doesn’t use my mother tongue, I had many struggles with language. And from the age of 10 or so, I started to think it was embarrassing to use Portuguese in front of Japanese people. I tried hard to be “Japanese” so I could be the same as everyone. This need to be monolingual and monocultural stopped me from being proud of myself. In this Story Circle let’s share our experiences of diversity, inclusion, and discrimination, and what they mean for us, and talk together about what people from different minorities and from different majorities can do to create acceptance, non-discrimination, and equality in our lives.