Participants embark on an intercultural journey to explore and embrace diversity by sharing a wide range of artifacts and practices representing the values of their various cultures.
In this activity participants are asked to imagine that they are getting ready to travel on a spaceship to an intergalactic conference where they will exchange the cultural significance of their lives with individuals from different planets. In order to do so, they are asked to write down 5 essential aspects of their own culture that represent who they are. Then they get together in groups of mixed cultures to share among themselves these aspects in the form of artifacts, practices, customs, etc. Finally, they are asked to decide, still in their groups, which one of the 5 is the most essential for determining the meaning of their culture on the deepest level.
To culminate this activity, all participants come together in a large circle to share the ultimate features they have selected to represent their cultures. The forum is then opened for questions, comments and discussion to further understand each other’s sense of cultural identity.