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2. STEREOTYPE EXERCISE
Materials: Pen, index cards
Number of moderators: 6 (for 150 participants)
Total duration of exercise: 55 minutes (writing: 5 minutes; collection and
grouping: 15 minutes; open reading: 5 minutes; discussion: 20 minutes;
forming the declaration version: 10 minutes)
Total duration of activity: 65 minutes.
The group is informed that the following activity will be nationality-specific
one.
i) Everyone in the group is given an index card and asked to write down
“the stereotype against him/her that hurts most.” They are also asked to
mark their nationality on a corner of the card.
ii) The cards are collected first and then separated on nationality basis.
Then each group’s most cited stereotype is figured out by the oderators.
iii) The next step is open reading of the two stereotypes that hurts most.
iv) A discussion is opened to include personal anecdotes, media memories,
school book memories etc. The aim of this phase is to concretise the
stereotypes read.
v) A declaration sentence is formed after discussion. The sentence starts
with “We, the young people of Greece and Turkey...” and declares that
they absolutely refute the stereotype mentioned.
vi) For more “stereotype items” to enter the declaration, the process can
be repeated from (iii) on beginning with the second set of stereotypes
that hurt most.
A ROAD MAP ON TURKISH-GREEK
YOUTH PARTNERSHIP
IN THE FUTURE
FACILITATOR: HALIL NALÇAOĞLU,
ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
RAPPORTEUR: BURCU BECERMEN
OBJECTIVE
To trigger young participants from Greece and Turkey to form a road map on
how to sustain Turkish-Greek youth partnership in the future through wish
list and stereotypes exercises.
PARTICIPATION
A total of 80 Greek and Turkish youngsters attending Turkish-Greek Civic
Dialogue Final Conference workshops
1- EXERCISE: FORMATION OF A WISHLIST
Session participants were asked to write down in the index cards handed out
their wishes with regard to Turkish-Greek youth partnership in a clear and
specific manner. THE MOST COMMON WISH: MORE JOINT / PARTNERSHIP
ORGANISATIONS. “WHAT KIND OF ORGANISATIONS?” was the question posed
and the question that we actually have to focus on. Alternatives and options
put forward by session attendees as regards the organisations between Turkish
and Greek youth are as follows:
1. Food Festival organisations highlighting common cuisine
2. We should attribute less symbolic importance to Musakka & Baklava
3. One more KayaFest/Festival in Greece in Islands, Imroz or Mykonos
4. Organising A Concert / Yeni Türkü Olmasa Mektubun in Greek & Turkish
5. Permanent And Open Youth Forum for Turkish & Greek youth for
discussion
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