How diversity aids youth to prosper ? 

Case study: Arabic, Amazigh, Hassaniya, Andalusian, and 

African... the diverse cultures of Morocco

Context and Background: 

Talking about the cultural tributaries of Morocco is a topic that raises many intellectual and academic debates, in an attempt to gather the most important tributaries that created this great momentum and diversity that baffles researchers.

Moroccan cultural diversity is due to Morocco's strategic location, as it is close to the Iberian Peninsula, open to Africa and the Levant, and open to other cultures that had a great impact on this cultural and linguistic overlap and ethnic diversity, which includes Berber, Arab-Islamic, Hassani, Andalusian-Moorish, African, and Jewish.

Morocco's architecture and landmarks, including walls, ancient cities, mosques and palaces, also indicate the diverse Moroccan culture with its customs, traditions and natures that make it distinct from others.

What we are trying to Achieve in this Session: 

• How to live peacefully among different social groups
• Accept others despite differences
• Benefiting from ethnic and social diversity in order to integrate all societal segments
• Adhering to this diversity in order to progress and develop  

Methodology: 

Opening - Setting the stage – Objective: to bring people into a different space, a dreamtime, a connection to the ancestors, a perspective shift to open minds to what a diversity in a country could look like.  

This would be done through: 

• An indigenous African youth sharing their knowledge.  
• There would also be a screening of artworks that we collect from around the world of what A diverse country could be interpreted as.  
• There would be a lot of informations to share.  

Connecting the Vision with the now – Engaging the Key Dilemmas – Objective: is to engage with the key issues that continue to emerge by hearing the stories from young people.

This would be done through:  

• sharing information through the stories and experience of those living cases.
• Then the participants would discuss each with a neighbour and they would use some sort of voting to share the good points to each argument etc. This needs some more thinking to come up with the exact way to do this with all the important stories and voices shared.  

Closing – Mindfulness – Objective: to set people’s minds back into a reflective and hopeful feeling leaving the session. 

This will be done through: 

• A mindfulness moment of breathing and reflection of the key thing they will carry with them from this session.