Ice Breaker for the college classrooom

1. Cultural Pursuit
How much do we know about our
cultural differences?

2. How to play Cultural Pursuit
• Read your Cultural Pursuit card, and initial
the boxes that you know something about.
• Find others in your class who can answer
any of the questions you cannot.
• Be prepared to share what you know.
• Have fun meeting your classmates!

3. 1 Find someone who . . .
Has had her/his name
mispronounced.

4. www.sailingsource.com/islander36/tallships/dscn1200.jpg

5. 2. Find someone who . . .
Knows what Nisei means.

6. Etymology: Japanese, literally, second
generation,
from ni second + sei generation
Date: 1929
A son or daughter of Japanese
immigrants who is born and educated in
America and especially in the U.S.
Senator Daniel Inouye, (D) Hawaii
www.willamette.edu/wucl/pdp/images/recruitment_s2002_inouye.htm

7. 3 Find someone who . .
Has experienced being stereotyped.

8. 4 Find someone who . .
Knows what a hijab is

9. A hijab is a veil that covers
the head and chest, which is
particularly worn by some
Muslim women beyond the
age of puberty in the
presence of adult males
outside of their immediate
family.
(wikipedia)

10. 5 Find someone who . .
Knows what the “Universal
Declaration of Human Rights” is.

11. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a
milestone document in the history of human rights.
Drafted by representatives with different legal and
cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the
Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a
common standard of rights for all peoples and all
nations.
It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to
be universally protected.
*Think of what you think should be rights to all of the
people of the world.
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

12. 6 Find someone who . . .
Knows what an upside down
pink triangle symbolizes.

13. The pink triangle has become a
symbol of gay liberation, although
its origins are those of oppression.
In the years prior to and during
World War II, homosexuals were
among the many groups targeted
for extermination by the Nazis.
Just as Jews were forced to wear
yellow Stars of David and political
prisoners a red triangle,
homosexual men were identified
by pink triangles.
safeplace.mtu.edu

14. 7 Find someone who . . .
Knows what “NOW” stands for.

15. The National Organization for
Women (NOW) is the largest
organization of feminist
activists in the United States.
NOW has 500,000 contributing
members and 550 chapters in
all 50 states and the District of
Columbia.
Since its founding in 1966,
NOW's goal has been to take
action to bring about equality
for all women.
www.now.org

16. 8 Find someone who . . .
Has traced their family lineage
or heritage. Then share yours.

17. 9 Find someone who . . .
Knows what Manzanar was.

18. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada
in eastern California's Owens Valley,
Manzanar War Relocation Center was
one of ten camps at which Japanese
American citizens and resident
Japanese aliens were interned during
World War II.
www.nps.org

19. 10 Find someone who . . .
Has been to another continent.

20. 11 Find someone who . . .
has a tattoo (do you?)

21. 12 Find someone who . . .
Knows what Juneteenth means.

22. Juneteenth is the oldest
known celebration of the
ending of slavery in America.
From its Galveston, Texas
origin in 1865, the
observance of June 19th as
the African American
Emancipation Day has spread
across the United States and
beyond.
www.juneteenth.com

23. 13 Find someone who . . .
Has a relative living in another
country.

24. 14 Find someone who . . .
Knows what the term
“intersectionality” means

25. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race,
class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as
creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or
disadvantage.

26. 15 Find someone who . . .
Knows someone who knows what the
phrase “hands up, don’t shoot” refers
to.

27. The police
response to the
shooting was
heavily criticized,
as was the slow
rate of information
making its way out
to the public.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American male, was shot to
death after an encounter with Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white male
Ferguson police officer. After several months of deliberation, a grand
jury decided not to indict Officer Wilson for any criminal charges in
relation to the incident.

28. 16 Find someone who . . .
Knows what the Trail of Tears is.

29. The Trail of Tears was the 1831 relocation of the “five
civilized tribes” (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee,
Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole Native Americans to
“Indian Territory” – Oklahoma. Many died including
4,000 of 15,000 Cherokee.

30. 17 Find someone who . . .
Has traced or knows their family
lineage or heritage.

31. 18 Find someone who . . .
Knows who Edward Snowden is.

32. A subject of controversy,
Snowden has been variously
called a hero, a whistleblower, a
dissident, a patriot, and a traitor.
His disclosures of secret NSA
domestic and foreign
surveillance has fueled debates
over mass surveillance,
government secrecy, and the
balance between national
security and information privacy.
Among other things he has
revealed
•Secret court orders allow NSA
to sweep up Americans' phone
records
•Revealed the existence of
PRISM as the NSA's program to
directly access the servers of
U.S tech giants like Google,
Facebook, Microsoft and Apple,
among others.
•The NSA spies on foreign
countries and world leaders and
has bugged as many as 38
targets including EU, France
and Italy
•That the NSA cracks Google
and Yahoo data center links

33. ADDITIONAL

34. Find someone who . . .
Knows who Harvey Milk was.

35. After several unsuccessful attempts,
in 1997 Harvey Milk won a seat on
the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors, becoming one of the
first openly gay elected officials in
California.
Harvey Milk was assassinated along
with Mayor George Moscone by
Supervisor Dan White on November
27, 1978.
www.harveymilk.org

36. Find someone who . . .
Knows what Tagalog is.

37. TAGALOG is one of the major languages
spoken in the Philippines, mostly by people
from the Tagalog regions in the main island
of Luzon. It is the lingua franca in Metro
Manila, the national capital region of the
country. It also serves as a base for Filipino,
one of the two official languages of the
Philippines (along with English).
According to the 1990 and 2000 United States
Census, TAGALOG is the second most
commonly-spoken Asian language (after
Chinese) in the United States, and the sixth
non-English language spoken in America.
www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_mainpage.htm

38. Find someone who . . .
Knows what “comparable worth”
means.

39. Comparable Worth (also called pay equity) - A reform effort
to pay different job titles the same based on their value to their
employer regardless of the gender predominance of those
working in such titles.
At the heart of comparable worth or pay equity is the
fact that jobs traditionally done by women have been
systematically undervalued in the marketplace. The net result
is that jobs disproportionately held by women are paid less
than comparable jobs with the same levels of skills and
responsibilities but commonly held by males. This bias against
women's work can be demonstrated and subsequently
eliminated by assessing the economic value of different jobs
through the use of gender-neutral job evaluation systems. For
example, secretarial and janitorial jobs can be compared on
dimensions such as the education/training needed, the working
conditions, the responsibility involved and effort required.
www.payequityresearch.com

40. Find someone who . . .
Knows someone who celebrates Tet.

41. Tet, which
means the first
morning of the
first day of the
new year, is the
Vietnamese
New Year.
www.discovermekong.com

42. 3 Find someone who . .
Knows what the “Red Crescent” is.

43. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies is the world's largest
humanitarian organization, providing assistance
without discrimination as to nationality, race,
religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
The Red Crescent is used in place of the Red Cross
in many Islamic countries.
www.ifrc.org