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up the flag & the description below.Then discuss
with your partner which you think sums up the Day for
Tolerance best.
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The Spiritual Globe - Robert Rauschenberg
With this flag, a global map in the form of hearts, Robert
Rauschenberg, leader of contemporary American art, wanted
to underline the spiritual dimension of tolerance. "The
globe opens out and becomes a heart resembling the hands
Michael Angelo painted on the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel,
which unite the creator to his creature. This heart asserts
itself as a spiritual organ setting the tempo of life
on earth," explains the artist, who was born in 1925
in the United States. |
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The Earth is Our Skin - Roberto Matta
"I christened one of my first paintings 'To Be With'
in order to show my will for solidarity," Roberto
Matta recalls. The painter, born in 1911 in Santiago,
Chile, raises a cry of alarm : "The earth is threatened,
love is threatened, poetry is threatened, art is threatened."
And the painter makes an appeal : "Tolerance is the
affirmation of the desire to live, to retrieve nature.
You must love the earth above all else. It is truth and
light. It is our skin.". |
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The Breath of Fraternity - Souleymane Keita
"This flag is the breath of fraternity that unites
men who are mobilised by tolerance. It rises like blue
music in a blue sky, the image of hope as this 20th century
ends," says the African artist Souleymane Keita,
who was born in 1947 in Gorée, Senegal. Like the
flag he created, his painting adapts themes from his surroundings
such as elements from nature, music, and spiritualism,
integrating a variety of styles - abstractionism, figurative,
impressionism. |
d.Harmony
and Evolution - Friedensreich Hundertwasser
"The figure expresses mankind, and the colour blue
means hope; it is the sign of the development of humanity,
an integral part of the universe," Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, one of the leading figures of contemporary
art, says of his flag. "Tolerance is an eternal value,"
emphasises the Austrian artist who was born in 1928 in
Vienna. "We have entered the new age of tolerance,
which has become an absolute necessity. This flag is a
Treatise that implies the endless cycle of the renewal
of life and of peace". |
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The Path of the Infinite - Rachid Koraichi
"Blue, a supraterrestrial colour, is the path of
the infinite. It expresses detachment from the values
of this world," says the Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi,
who was born in 1947. "For an African, gold is the
principle of solidity, of human security, the principle
of happiness." The five-pointed star incarnates the
human microcosm: "It shines in people's hearts, which
are obscured by passions." Like a talisman, the checkerboard
recalls the seven words of the Muslim profession of faith
: seeking, love, knowledge, independence, unity, wonder,
devotion. |
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The Balance of Life - Dan You
Dan You works on image concepts with Jean Michel Jarre,
whose concert for tolerance was attended by 1.5 million
persons on 14 July 1995 in Paris. His flag represents
the four elements: "Air, fire, earth and water, the
source of all being and beyond any dogmas," says
the artist, who was born in 1958 in Saigon (Viet Nam).
"The defined and infinite forms reflect the paradoxes
of the Yin and Yang components of balance. Asia has found
and will find the paths of tolerance within its extremes".
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Ten
Ideas for Observing the International Day for Tolerance
(16 November)
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up the headings with the appropriate paragraph
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Diversity in Your Community
2. Human Rights
3. Do-lt-Yourself Tolerance Program
4. No to Violence
5. Ecological Diversity and Human Diversity
6. Religious Tolerance
7. Current Events
8. Sports and Tolerance
9. Creativity at Work
10. International Link-ups |
| a.
How does violence come into a community, school or home,
and how can it be stopped? Act out the dynamics of tolerance
and intolerance through role playing, dialogue, dilemma
solving. Organise public debates, take sides in a debate,
and then switch sides and speak for the opposite position.
How do you imagine peaceful co-existence of diverse individuals
and groups? What makes it work, and what undermines it?
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Start an international conversation or school-pairing
project, by mail or computer. Write to others in another
country about issues and problems you face in your lives.
Exchange audio cassettes or pictures. Explore the possibilities
of participating in international summer camps or student
exchanges. Ask your school to join UNESCO's Associated
Schools Project. |
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Every community is based on interdependence. Like the
plants and animals, we couldn't survive if we were all
the same. What are some examples of this truth drawn from
daily life in your town? What are concrete examples of
how a culture of peace and tolerance can promote environmental
preservation? Start a project in your school or neighbourhood.
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Art speaks volumes. Examine the work of an artist from
another region of the world. What does it communicate
to you? Create short stories, plays, poems, songs, articles,
paintings, posters, photographs, or videos elucidating
the themes of tolerance, and publish or distribute them.
Write letters to prominent people, asking questions and
communicating your views on the subject of tolerance.
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Wherever you live, the wide diversity of your community
will probably surprise you. It has been said that a culture
is the sum total of all the influences that a region has
undergone. Undertake an investigative project on cultural
diversity in your town or community. Who lives there?
How do they live? Articles, interviews, posters or displays
can be designed to highlight the range of identities and
cultures. How is this diversity demonstrated in music?
Reflect on the number of traditions of music and dance
you've come across, and the mutual influences they show.
Organise a concert or cultural festival that brings together
a range of cultural traditions. |
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Organise an event, with the participation of different
religious and non-religious groups in your community,
to discuss how tolerance is taught by these communities.
How is tolerance taught by the different religions of
the world, including the traditions of indigenous peoples?
Each of them, in its own way, is founded on love and justice,
and cannot be used to justify violence or war. Dialogue
and discussion between representatives of many religious
groups is a tradition that goes back centuries, and is
still valuable today. |
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How are the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic,
religious, linguistic or other minorities guaranteed in
your community, nation, region? How about indigenous people,
migrant workers, asylum-seekers and refugees, disabled
people? Are their rights promoted and protected? Do you
find that your law-enforcement officials are adequately
educated about human rights? What can you do to improve
attitudes or behaviour toward minorities? |
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Write your own tolerance curriculum or program. This means
deciding what are the component parts of tolerance, and
how you think tolerant values can best be transmitted.
Scrutinise your text books and televisions, newspapers
and magazines for stereotyping, including gender typing,
and assumptions about nationalities and ethnic groups.
What are the tolerance priorities for your town, country
or region? |
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What are the international sporting events, and what is
their purpose? What are the possible links between sports
and intolerance (such as exclusion of those unable to
compete, competitive chauvinism and violence) and how
may these be remedied? Organise an athletic event around
the theme of diversity and tolerance. |
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Organise discussions about current events in relation
to tolerance and intolerance. Analyse actual conflicts
of the past and present. How might they have been resolved
or avoided? How is the issue of human rights in the news
today? What are the fundamental rights and freedoms recognised
by the international community? How do multi-cultural,
multi-linguistic countries work? What are the common interests
that diverse peoples share? |
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