Learning Challenge: All That We Share

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The video I watched was Denmark's TV-2 All That We Share, which is a heartwarming video that brought people together in trying to change the way we view others. It was a video about accepting others and recognizing that we all have things in commons. 

The video starts by showing different groups of people divided up based on things like class, age, and where they were from. Then a presenter asks people to step forward if what he says applies to them. He starts making random statements like "I am a step-parent" or "I am lonely," and people from different groups would step forward and create a new group. The exercise appeared to bring the participants happiness and we could see them relax as it went on. In the end, there is the realization that labeling people or grouping people together because of arbituary attributes is silly, and we judge people a lot based on these unimportant things. 

One thing the video confirmed for me was that people have judgments and biases that can be diminished by experience with the thing/group they are biased against. Something I learned was that a lot of people feel lonely and aren't very shy about admitting it.