SCENARIO: Let's assume that one of your friends has developed a teleportation device that transports you instantly to a different time and location. You have decided to be one of the volunteers to test this device. Since you want to make a positive difference in the world - and since you feel particularly interested in creating more social EQUALITY - you have decided to choose a HISTORICAL time and place in which one group of the population is discriminating against another group of population in a very extreme and often inhuman way (Examples: Slavery in America, the Holocaust in Germany, the lack of rights of women in various times and places, etc.) and in which therefore prejudices and stereotypes were widespread. Your friend's device works and has transported you into your chosen time and you are determined to help END the existing discrimination. Since nobody knows you, you also decide you will approach your goal from two different angles by taking on two different roles: Ø you first pretend to be a member of the minority group (i.e. the group that is being discriminated against) [your friend's device can also alter your appearance if necessary for your role], Ø you then represent a member of the majority group (i.e. the group that discriminates against the other group [again, you can use your friend's device to adjust your appearance if necessary].

TASK: Please give two SPEECHES, in which you try to convince your listeners to help you end discrimination.

a) Write ONE of the speeches from the perspective of a member of the MINORITY group (i.e. the people who are being discriminated against)

b) and the OTHER ONE from a MAJORITY perspective (i.e. the people who are discriminating against the other group). Be as persuasive as you can in both of your arguments (make sure you include compelling reasons and examples) and in your delivery (use some rhetorical means to give your argument power). When you are done, please also comment briefly on:

Ø the historical context you have chosen,

Ø the kind of discrimination that was going on, the stereotypes and prejudices involved,

Ø why you think this kind of discrimination was going on (please consider, in this context, who would have benefitted from the discrimination), and Ø how you think this form of discrimination could have been avoided at the time (or, if you think it could NOT have been avoided, comment on that instead).

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