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[Review] Challenges Preparing to be Tomorrow’s Leaders: A Youth Leadership and Ambassador Program
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- 2015-04-22
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Speaker : Michael and Dawn Fiechtner
Writer : Lee Ju Yeon
Co-Writer : Liza Augustoviz
Date : April 18, 2015
Michael and Dawn Fiechtner are school teachers from Australia who started a youth leadership company and their main topic was multiculturalism in Australia.
They described multiculturalism as something you can taste, see, and hear. You can taste Italian coffees and French wines. You can see a class of kids from different backgrounds. And you can hear three to four different languages being spoken on the subway.
Multiculturalism can be seen as a melting pot. It is something that is not easy and has many problems, but young people can be the ones to help build a multicultural society.
They also talked about developing skills for the future. We live in a world characterized by globalization, information revolution, and democratization because of this we need to prepare the youth to be leaders.
They hosted a program for Korean students to go to Australia to learn about multiculturalism. The Korean students learned to look at other cultures, to relate to others, and to be open to multicultural experiences.
The speakers highlighted the importance of sharing cultures and to not worry about making mistakes because mistakes foster real experiences.
Lastly, they said in their conclusion some interesting thoughts! One of the thoughts was, “There is so much more learning to achieve, but the challenge is to open the minds of the young, to accept the call to make a global society."
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