Can a life-swap exercise stop a community tearing itself in two?

[oldcynic]

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Source: BBC

When sizeable refugee populations from African and Muslim countries start resettling in communities that look, talk and pray nothing like them, friction and outright racism can follow. Can simple storytelling prevent that fate?

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39727185

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One active way to save us all.

[tenorly]

1. I think we're undergoing a mass lifeswap right now.

The Chinese, who have a long history of relying on slave labor, are slowly but steadily improving their people's living standards - while Cheeto and the John Birch bunch behind him in the Rose Garden are systematically trying to push us back into semi-feudal conditions.

[hrmjustin]

2. locking.

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