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152 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM Activity: Lift the veil You need a sheet and a lamp. Fix the sheet upright in a way that makes it seem like a screen and put a lamp behind it. Close the windows or shades since the room where you are must be dark, and turn on the lamp. Before turning on the lamp, you will have put some objects between the lamp and the sheet. Depending on the distance of the objects from the light, the shadows will assume a different size. Try to make the smallest objects seem bigger and vice versa. Then ask your students what they see in the shadows projected on the sheet, for example their size and colour. Then lift the sheet and show everyone what is truly behind it. Exercise: True/False Decide if the following statements are true or false and give reasons. T F 1. Snow is white. Why? … 2. Snow is white in the whole world. Why? … 3. In the whole world in winter it is cold. Why? … 4. A Muslim cannot enter a Catholic church. Why? … 5. A Catholic can never become a Muslim. Why? … 6. A Hindu can never become an Atheist. Why? … 7. Vegetarians cannot eat meat. Why? … 8. Vegetarians choose not to eat meat. Why? … 9. Ghosts do exist. Why? … 10. The color of our skin depends on climate conditions. Why? … 11. Everything which is on the face of the earth was born. Why? … Leading Idea 2: Reality In the first episode, Rosaria affirms that since Fela does not perceive her, she is not part of reality. So, for Rosaria, reality is whatever is perceived. Tina makes her notice that if Fela does not perceive her, it does not mean that Rosaria does not belong to reality but only that she is not part of Fela’s reality. Therefore, we have at least two different positions about what we mean by reality. On the one hand, we could define reality as everything