101 Tools for
Tolerance
Simple Ideas for Promoting Equity
and Celebrating Diversity*
Ideas for Yourself
*A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center www.tolerance.org
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101 Tools for
Tolerance Ideas for Yourself *A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center www.tolerance.org |
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| 1. Attend a play, listen to
music or go to a dance performance by artists whose race or ethnicity is different from your own. |
2. Volunteer at a local social services organization. | 3. Attend services at a variety of churches, synagogues and temples to learn about different faiths. |
| 4. Visit a local senior center and collect oral histories. Donate large-print reading materials and books on tape. Offer to help with a craft project. | 5. Shop at ethnic grocery stores and specialty markets. Get to know the owners. Ask about their family histories. | 6. Participate in a diversity program. |
| 7. Ask a person of another cultural heritage to teach you how to perform a traditional dance or cook a traditional meal. | 8. Learn Sign Language. | 9. Take a conversation course in another language that is spoken in your community. |
| 10. Teach an adult to read. | 11. Speak up when you hear slurs. let people know that bias speech is always unacceptable. | 12. Imagine what your life might be like if you were a person of another race, gender or sexual orientatin. How might "today" have been different? |
| 13. Test for hidden biases that you may have, and read what you can do about them. | 14. Take a Civil rights history vacation. Tour key sites and museums. | 15. Research your family history. Share information about your heritage in talks with others. |
| 16. List all the stereotypes you can - positive and negative - about a particular group. Are these stereotypes reflected in your actions? | 17. Think about how you appear to others. List personality traits that are compatible with tolerance (e.g., compassion, curiosity, openness). List those that seem incompatible with tolerance (e.g., jealousy, bossiness, perfectionism). | 18. Create a "diversity profile" of your friends, co-workers and acquaintances. Set the goal of expanding it by next year. |
| 19. Sign the Declaration of Tolerance (link) and return it to 101 Tools, c/o Tolerance.org, 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36104. | 20. Read a book about another culture. | 21. Watch a movie about another culture. |