Lifeboat Prejudice
All people are different. Sometimes, if a person doesn't look or act in a way that is familiar to us, we can make assumptions about that person even though we don't know who they are, or their full story. Many people wouldn’t ever admit that they can be prejudice. Even if you are the nicest, most non-judgemental person in the world, you are most likely going to judge people at times. It’s hard to admit, but I sometimes find myself judging people a lot by what is on the surface. It is human nature to pre-judge but I try my hardest not to.
Recently, I was at an event where we played a game called Lifeboat. Lifeboat is a game where you pretend that you and twelve other people are on a desert island. There is one lifeboat but the boat can …show more content…
That would mean that four people would have to stay on the island. You receive a slip of paper with a general characteristic, gender, and age. For example one profile might be, “Criminal,male,age 32”. Another might be, “Doctor,female,age 45”. The slip of paper was only for your eyes to see, and it would have about a paragraph saying everything that you can say outloud. At the bottom of the paper, there would be the parts of your story that you can't say. Everybody would share the parts of their story that they are able to say. After everyone has read their story out loud, we would have to decide who gets to go on the boat and who would have to stay on the desert island. Once you have decided who gets to go on the boat, you rank those people one through nine. One being “most important” and nine being “least important”. Once you decide you ranking order, everyone shares their full stories. Most of the characters that people didn’t want on the boat had a twist to their story. The criminal was put in jail for a crime of passion, but was once an extremely experienced boat captain, so he would be an asset to have on the boat. I also mentioned the female doctor. She is a doctor so you would generally think that she would have skills that would be helpful
Recently, I was at an event where we played a game called Lifeboat. Lifeboat is a game where you pretend that you and twelve other people are on a desert island. There is one lifeboat but the boat can …show more content…
That would mean that four people would have to stay on the island. You receive a slip of paper with a general characteristic, gender, and age. For example one profile might be, “Criminal,male,age 32”. Another might be, “Doctor,female,age 45”. The slip of paper was only for your eyes to see, and it would have about a paragraph saying everything that you can say outloud. At the bottom of the paper, there would be the parts of your story that you can't say. Everybody would share the parts of their story that they are able to say. After everyone has read their story out loud, we would have to decide who gets to go on the boat and who would have to stay on the desert island. Once you have decided who gets to go on the boat, you rank those people one through nine. One being “most important” and nine being “least important”. Once you decide you ranking order, everyone shares their full stories. Most of the characters that people didn’t want on the boat had a twist to their story. The criminal was put in jail for a crime of passion, but was once an extremely experienced boat captain, so he would be an asset to have on the boat. I also mentioned the female doctor. She is a doctor so you would generally think that she would have skills that would be helpful