Community Embrace Diversity

Notes & Ideas

• More open

• Ask the student

• The human condition. Our common experience

• Diversity is strength, survival, ideas, success

• More ways of knowing: spread the positive message: diversity is not a threat: it is an opportunity/ celebrate it. Value it. Goes beyond employment buzzwords even employable skills. Core value of who we are. NL needs this.

• Indigenous languages - many of them.

• Time passes, change will happen. Focus on positive enriches us.

Questions

• How do we deal with fear of change?

• How do we move away from “tolerate” and toward embrace diversity and value?

• What should be done about hate on social media?

• Emphasize the real rtn: more weight.

Actions

• We are diverse so show the value of diversity

• Include the richness we already have as early as possible