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Ms Zivy spoke to Paris City Hall describing how she came up with the idea: “As I was a delegate in the schools, I realized there is a multitude of nationalities and it is not always easy to manage. Furthermore, children are not often spoken to about issues of racism. So I had the idea of doing it with a game. Racism is often just ignorance of the other. If we don't know it, we are a little afraid of it, so we become aggressive.”
She says that she gathered a multitude of questions and answers on the habits and customs of the five continents. “We were interested in what is common to all children, what they also talk about, such as clothes, food, houses. We completed this with arts and storytelling.”
The way the game works is a classic type of moving pawns across a board (the world) based on the roll of dice. Landing on certain boxes leads to the game master (an adult) asking the children different trivia questions about cultural habits and customs.
After a first test in a leisure centre with CM2 (aged 10-11) students, the game was adapted, because some questions were very difficult to tackle with children of this age. “We added a booklet of clues so that the game remains a game, where you win, and so as not to put the children in a situation of failure, which would not be productive.”
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