Look Beyond Borders: a 4 minute experiment
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- When talking about the problem of refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who - just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down opposite a specific person and look into their eyes, you no longer see an anonymous refugee, one of the migrants, and notice the human before you, just like yourself - loving, suffering, dreaming...
20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron discovered that 4 minutes of looking into each other's eyes can bring people closer. Using this discovery, we decided to carry out a simple experiment, during which refugees and Europeans sat opposite each other and looked into each other's eyes. Clearly, it is most important to give each other time to better understand and get to know each other.
The experiment was conducted in Berlin: the city, which - first of all - is a symbol of overcoming the divisions, and secondly, seems to be the centre of the contemporary Europe. We wanted the movie created on the basis of the experiment to be as symbolic as possible - and to touch upon the general divisions between people.
The experiment participants were ordinary people. The situations were not staged; we wanted to get natural, spontaneous reactions. The people sitting opposite each other had not known each other before and saw each other for the first time during the experiment. What is important, the refugees mostly came from Syria and had not been living in Europe for longer than a year.
Created by DDB Warsaw for Amnesty International Poland.
Dick's daughter Alicia, who died over 20 years ago, started a chapter of Amnesty International at her High School. She was 17 at the time. She would have loved this video. She was an amazing girl. Please share this video as one step toward understanding of others--something that is sorely missed in this political climate.
I watched the video and it was great and I couldn't hold myself crying how beautiful it is to live in peace
How beautiful is love, peaceful coexistence, and respect for religions and cultures
Foreign scumbag, get out of europe
The most beautiful thing in life is to communicate with those around you and make your relationship continuous and enjoyable in order to live freely and with dignity
indeed am crying hard in my hreart ,so emotional ............................
I am crying so hard right now... why can't we just all love each other
You're watching propaganda. They want you to think with your emotions instead of logic about the migrant crisis that is happening to many Western nations.
good luck trying to get islamists that want sharia law to love you
I appreciate the sentiments, but Germany really hasn't really been doning the right thing in not doing any background checks on its "refugees" in order to tell which actually are refugees.
Great indeed .Building bridges where there are none for humanity.
Sharing, Justice and Peace for all.
judging from comments, i get the impression that folks tend to miss that this 4-minute experiment is not about discussing politics but about learning about the person. for example, what foods he or she likes or dislikes, what he or she wants for herself and/or family - the personal stuff like education, making a living, etc. in short, the idea is to demonstrate how much more we are alike as individuals, not members of this or that political/cultural group.
i'm sorry, dcunning30, but i don't understand the relevance of your comment to the comment that i made.
The whole point of this matter glosses over the risks of unfettered immigration. Native women are raped, just today it's reported a refugee hostel was burned down because a refugee wasn't sufficiently alerted about Ramadan. It's very risky for Europe, and holding an exercise where people look into each other's eyes misses the far greater matter completely.
you are of course right about there being crimes committed by some immigrants, and those individuals must be captured and handled according to law. but blaming or punishing all immigrants does not resolve anything. that 4-minute exercise is just one approach to handling the immigrant situation, the point of this approach being to enable people on both sides of the issue to learn a bit about each other; it is not intended as a denial of the negative effects of mass immigration. this is a multi-faceted issue and needs multi-faceted handling, but it can be done humanely.
Quelque chose de positif dans ce monde qui roule à pleine vitesse vers on ne sait où ...
This video is so powerful. Simple and powerful!
سأتحدث بالعربية..
رأيت فقط بشر يتواصلون....
تمنيت لو نترك لأنفسنا العنان و لنتذكر أننا بشر..
هذه قيمتنا الوحيدة..
و أهميتنا الحقيقية ولا شيء آخر...
I saw the video. I wept a little bit and I was moved. Then I read the comments. I wept a little bit and I was moved.
first time I felt that we actually all live in peace. second time because of how much people are quick to judge by looks,sex, riligon and ethnicity. #SadStory
This is so moving. This video really touched me. So beautiful! Thanks
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Intially all humans were together then they separated due to different reasons
Beautiful ❤❤
BEAUTIFUL!
So simple but Beautiful.
One of The best videos I’ve ever seen on CZcams . Thank you @Amnestyinternational
Need to understand the culture, religion, feelings and values of others all are respectable and deserve equal right to live in this world with peace and love.
human relation touch to supporting voice
Unity for all
So simple, yet so powerful :)
A lovely video in its own right.
However, the fact it was produced by an activist organization for the purpose of advancing a political agenda makes it shameless emotional manipulation. The implication that someone not in favor of mass immigration is simply heartless and cruel is incredibly offensive.
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just smile life is so simple
Bien sûr, par le canal de HCR, on peut se communiquer facilement et rapidement.
Les besoins sont traités urgemment par les services de HCR.
Top tier propoganda - Goebels, eat your heart out.
so eine scheisse