Saturday, March 22, 2008

Video Games and Diversity

We have an adequate number of studies that indicate video games do influence behavior, as does music and peer pressure. How then to assist needy students in understanding the emotions and feelings of others - well, they came up with an answer ... ICED!

A "new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the US immigration system."

"... so you can experience what they are going through."

A professor of political science from the University of California, Irvine suggested that the game was "very important, especially for younger people, to understand the diversity of American society. It's easy to assume that everyone is like you."


AP August 2, 2007, Gamers play illegal immigrants in new title

Make Mine Freedom - 1948


American Form of Government

Who's on First? Certainly isn't the Euro.