Mångkulturella dagen i Ålands lyceum, 08.05.2013
Den 8 maj 2013 höll Ålands fredsinstituts volontärer Gohar Mamikonyan och Gulnar Mammadova en workshop för elever I Ålands lyceum, då skolan hade mångkulturell dag. Här skriver Gohar (på engelska) om sina intryck från dagen.
On the 8th of May marvelous sounds of the African music gathered students, teachers and all guests together in the big hall of the Upper Secondary School, the Ålands lyceum declaring the beginning of the great multicultural day in the school.
Excitement and curiosity were the most common facial expression expecting that workshops, presentations and discussions would question and probably challenge everybody’s attitudes, cultural and multicultural images as well as stereotypes.
However, it was not the intention to invent a new bicycle, but to show from various points of view that everything in societies is deeply interlinked. Therefore, ignoring or paying less attention to phenomena that seem not to be important at the moment can badly affect others and have an effect of growing snowball which has happened in many societies in different periods of time.
