Activity:
For this week’s IFP session, we were going to play a game. The game was simple – create a group and the largest group wins. However, there were sabotagers. If one of the sabotagers were to be in a group, that group will automatically lose. The facilitator, Mr. Sanjay, was going to call each one of us out of the room we were in and tell them whether he or she is a sabotager. Thus, with those rules, the game started.
During the period of time:
While people were being called one by one, we questioned those who came back if he or she was a sabotager. Most of them said no. However, during my turn, I was told I was not a sabotager and he asked me to take a crayon and said it’s up to me whether I want to hid it or not. I decided to not hid it. Afterward, one of my friends asked me if I had a crayon and I said yes. She also had a crayon. The first thing that came up to my mind was – the non-sabotagers have crayons. So I gathered people who had crayons. However, one of my friends suggested that he thinks there were no sabotagers. I decided to accept that idea and gathered people without thinking about the crayons.
After a while, we were divided into four or five groups. In my group, people were mixed – those who have a crayon and those who don’t. One of the other groups only had people who have crayons.
By the end of the activity, we were told that there were no sabotagers and the crayons were made just to confuse us and divide us.
Reflection:
Personally I thought this activity was very interesting. We tend to look at the problem from different perspectives even though there were no enemies, even though we were the same. The only thing that divided us was the crayon which is our property. This is very true, we are all humans. We have our values and beliefs but that doesn’t mean we have the right to discriminate against others just because of those and vise Versa. Personally, I thought this is a very interesting activity and this could be used as an example for future conflicts.
