CORE Strenghten Your Life Skills: For Teenagers and Young Adults – English

Unit 2 – Dealing with discrimination and fighting it: Step 3

Task 1

Diving deeper into the topic of discrimination

Abena, age 14, wanted to study computer science in school. She had excellent grades just like her male counterparts, but her scholarship application was turned down.

  • Is it possible that it happened because she is a girl or an African?
  • Read through the texts about discrimination and its different forms and where it can take place.
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Task 2

Thinking of examples of discrimination

  • Imagine specific examples of discrimination. Create a collection.
  • You can draw your examples on a piece of paper, have your colleagues depict a situation of discrimination while you take a picture of it.

Task 3

Strategies

There are different strategies to cope with discrimination. Below we offer seven of them:

Focus on your strengths.
Seek support systems.
Get involved.
Help yourself think clearly.
Don't dwell.
Seek professional help.
Stand up for yourself.

  • Think about your examples of discrimination in «Task 2». Which strategies would you pursue?
  • Sort the strategies below according to which ones you find most useful (7) to the least applicable ones (1).

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Task 4

Thinking of more strategies

  • Think about other strategies that could help to cope with discrimination.
  • Discuss them with a partner and write your examples below in the text field.

Task 5

Sharing your example

  • Share one or several of your examples of discrimination. You can copy your text from «Task 2» or upload a picture or a drawing and paste it into the «discussion group» below.
  • Read two of the examples your colleagues shared with you.
  • Try to think about and come up with different strategies for how a person could deal with this kind of discrimination.