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Racism and Discrimination

Guilty? The last word to you!

It’s the year 2059 in Sicily. A very strange trend is spreading in the Italian region: blond people are less and less frowned upon by the rest of the population and are increasingly excluded from society. Over time, a huge exclusion of people not having brown hair started in Sicily and a clear separation by hair colour started in the society.

It is December 3, 2059 and the Sicilian government needs to get more votes. For this reason the president decides to follow the major trend that is spreading very fast in the island, issuing a special decree for the protection of brown people. It is decided to separate blonde hair persons from people with other hair colour in public life.

Luca is a 28 years old guy. He has brown hair with a natural blond streak on the back of his head. One day, he is going by bus to the office. Luca’s neighbour is on the same bus and once she noticed the streak in his back, she called the police. Luca goes to a precautionary arrest and a group of judges, according to the special decree, is called to take a decision on his case, in a very secret room. The judges will not leave the room until they won’t take the final judgement on Luca’s case.

Objectives

One of the objectives of this scenario is to raise awareness about issues such as racism and discrimination, which very often are based solely and exclusively on physical characteristics that have nothing to do with the value of people.
Another objective is to make people understand the absurdity of discrimination based on hair color: a metaphor for any physical characteristic.
Participants will be involved, finding themselves making a decision and questioning themselves from a moral point of view.

Toolkit

“Guilty? The last word to you!” How-to Guide

With the help of this guide, all the necessary tools (theoretical and practical) will be provided to organize educational workshops that use the escape room as a tool for non-formal education.

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“Guilty? The last word to you!” Printed Materials

In this document you will find every printable material that you need to set up the “Guilty? The last word to you!” Escape Room, and some links to materials too.
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Key Take-aways

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Understand how discrimination is based on ideas and preconceptions that have no basis, neither in science nor in reality.

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Understand how these forms of racism and discrimination lead to the exclusion of entire groups of people who suffer from this condition and who, first of all, are human beings.