This is just great:
The Living Library project will enable people to come face-to-face with their prejudices in the hopes of altering their preconceived notions, Ulla Brohed of the Malmö Library in southern Sweden told AFP.
“You sometimes hear people’s prejudices and you realize that they are just uninformed,” she said.
This weekend, nine people, including a homosexual, an imam, a journalist, a Muslim woman and a gypsy, will be available at the Malmö Library for members of the public to “borrow” for a 45 minute conversation in the library’s outdoor cafe.
“Maybe not all journalists are know-it-all and sensationalist, just unafraid and curious. Maybe not all animal rights activists are angry and intolerant, but intelligent and committed,” she said.
This is something I hope to achieve with my film — showing that we all have much more in common than we realize. When face to face with someone (or listening to them give unscripted, non-soundbyte responses to questions), you have to treat them like a person, and not a stereotype.
(thanks to my sister Natalie for sending this story to me)
There is also a project in Stockholm, Sweden right now: The Library of Prejudices. Check in your old prejudices, and get someone else’s instead. Wonderful!
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who are you jonas? reveal yourself!