In Denmark, there are libraries where you can borrow a person instead of a book, to listen to their life story for 30 minutes. The aim is to help people overcome prejudice. Each participant has a label that they identify with – “unemployed”, “refugee”, “bipolar”, etc. – by listening to the other person’s story, the participants are able to realize how much you shouldn’t “judge a book by its cover”. This innovative project is active in more than 50 countries and is called “The Human Library”.
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Credit: Varun Sinha