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34 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM Exercise: What is fair? 1. Is it fair to treat every child the same way? 2. Is it fair to compare children in class with each other? 3. What do we mean by “fair enough”? 4. What do you mean if you say that we have to share the cake fairly? 5. Is it fair to ask children to do chores? 6. What does it mean to say something is a fair price? 7. What is a fair game? 8. It is fair that a child should not be penalized by society for being a refugee. Episode 5: Who am I? The teacher read a story where a little girl asked the question “Who am I?” Emina suddenly spoke up in class and said that she is very confused because she also does not know who she is. She was desperate because her citizenship had changed. She had never heard about “citi- zenship” and didn‘t know what it was. Acknowledging the complexity of local and global issues is very difficult. However, used in conjunction with a cosmopolitan perspective, it can help young people to learn how decisions made by people locally or globally affect their lives, just as our decisions very often affect the lives of others. So can the citizenship of a person have something to do who the person is? Does it have something to do with identity? Leading Idea 1: Who am I? The question “Who am I?” is a very difficult philosophical question, and various thinkers in the history of philosophy gave different answers or considerations to it. “I” can actually be experienced through thinking, feeling, perceiving, acting, etc. You can also refer to the manual to Christian, episode 2, leading idea 1, discussion plan “Who am I? Where am I from?” Discussion Plan: Who are you? 1. How do you know who you are? 2. Does looking at yourself in the mirror show you who you are? 3. Is it possible to become something or someone else? 4. Could you be someone else? 5. Do you need to know who you are? 6. Is being like a bird the same thing as being a bird? 7. Do you sometimes do what someone else wants you to do? 8. When you change the way you look do you feel like a different person? 9. Does what you look like affect who you are? If so, how? 10. When you act like someone else do you sometimes want to become like him or her? 11. What do you think makes you unique? 12. Who are you?