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Participation: If you are imagining the answers of someone who is different from you in race, gender, or some other facet, now is your chance to do a little research. Choose an identity that is different from yours, and find some literature about that population. This might be a novel or short story narrating another’s experience, or a series of articles that talk about views of this group. See Appendix for a list of novels about different racial groups.

Initiation: Find a person who shares several of your identity facets, and conduct an interview with this person on these facets by asking the questions in the preceding Assess Your Knowledge section. As you begin to see the shape of this person’s worldview, note where you are similar and where you are not. You may find some diversity in worldviews because of the intersections of their other facets as well.

Activism: Find a person that you know is different from you in ways that might mean your worldviews are incredibly different. Sometimes this is a person who is older than you (of a different generation) or of a different racial or sexual orientation group. Make some time to conduct an interview asking the person the questions in the Assess Your Knowledge section. Though you may not agree with this person’s viewpoints, try hard not to disagree and to just record the answers. Plot these into a worldview sketch of the person based on the answers. Does this help you to better understand where this person comes from? What is your reaction to the different worldview? How might you still interact with a person whose worldview is incredibly different from yours?