The
term refugee is thrown around frequently these days, as more
individuals continue to flee their homes in search of safety, freedom,
and a better life.
Unfortunately, when most of us (and the
mainstream media) refer to refugees we use dehumanizing language,
reducing these people to numbers and statistics. Rather than seeing them
for the individuals that they are, we instead refer to them in bulk,
describing them in terms of quantity and the amount of resources it will
require from us to “accommodate” them.
In hopes of reminding us that these refugees, like us, are real people who have families, friends, dreams, goals, and stories, Amnesty Poland conducted and filmed a social experiment in Berlin.
In the experiment, refugees and Europeans were partnered up and given the simple task of making eye contact for 4 minutes.
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