EMPATHY FOR GP

Empathy allows students to feel and understand the world from the perspective of another person.  It opens hearts to the diversity of human experience and feeling. 

Answer each of these questions; 

1. How do you feel? 

 

2. What options are available to you?  Which one will you choose and why? 

 

3.  How would you like other people to treat you? 

 

Situations: 

1.  Your family has lived in this city for three generations.  Suddenly your country is plunged into a civil war and your city has become the center of the hostilities as it is the base of the rebels.  Everyday, your city is being bombed by government airplanes and they bomb indiscriminately.  You try to tell the world about your problem through social media but no one cares.  One day, your neighbourhood is bombed and your house is destroyed.  Your parents are killed. 

2.   You took party drugs before during rave parties.  All of your friends know.  Now that the Duterte government is targeting drug users, the barangay has labelled you a drug addict even if you are not using it anymore.  Apparently, your friends have squealed on you.  Now, you are afraid for your life. 

3. Since you were a child, you always felt you were in a wrong gender trapped in your body.  Luckily, your parents are very understanding and liberal and have allowed you to live your life in the gender opposite your real one.  You did well in university and graduated with honors.  Now that you are ready to work, many companies are turning you down because of your bender gender. 

4.  Your family moved to another country because of your father’s job.  However, you are the only student in your new school whose race is different from all the rest of your classmates.  Worse, you cannot yet speak their language.  Recently, the country voted against immigration and tensions against immigrants are high.  Technically, you are not an immigrant since you are there as an expat.  But in school, the other students don’t know the difference – and the taunting and bullying based on your race, starts. 

5.  You chose a career in an industry where the opposite gender is dominant.  However, since you love the job, you still decided on choosing that career.  Now that you are working, you realize that there is gender discrimination in your job. Even if you are the best performer always, they do not acknowledge your work and worse, you don’t get promotions or incentives because of your gender.  Your office mates also make sexual jokes and innuendoes in front of you.