SeriesGermany in Focus
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Chapter Exit Right - Confronting Discrimination
Compelling Question: How does Germany deal with xenophobia: the fear and hatred of strangers and foreigners?
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This inquiry focuses on discrimination and how individuals, groups, and governments respond. Germany's increasingly pluralistic society has resulted in the need for greater sensitivity in accepting cultural and racial differences. As a starting point in examining attitudes toward minorities, students will view the short fil "Exit Right." This film allows for open discussion and should serve as a vehicle for the examination of biases and their outcomes in our own society. Students will use the current German legislation, General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - AGG), to determine the legal definition of discrimination and the protections the act provides. Two 'grassroots' responses to discrimination will also be considered.
This inquiry focuses on discrimination and how individuals, groups, and governments respond. Germany's increasingly pluralistic society has resulted in the need for greater sensitivity in accepting cultural and racial differences. As a starting point in examining attitudes toward minorities, students will view the short fil "Exit Right." This film allows for open discussion and should serve as a vehicle for the examination of biases and their outcomes in our own society. Students will use the current German legislation, General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz - AGG), to determine the legal definition of discrimination and the protections the act provides. Two 'grassroots' responses to discrimination will also be considered.
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