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The event has itself was designed to spread awareness of what we think needs to change in our area. We decided that the world needed to be more aware of the rest of the world, and not just focus on what is happening in our own backyard. We concluded that this needed to change after we both spent our time abroad and noticed that the countries we were in were world focused, while the U.S. is very U.S. focused. We started off our presentation talking about different aspects of the world that people do not have a lot of knowledge on. These topics included items such as human trafficking, immigration, law and regulations, business economy, as well as race, religion, and gender acceptance. We also took the time to involve the audience by asking them if they were where certain places are on the map, while the volunteers knew some places we asked, they proved our point that we do not know enough about even where places in the world are located. We then went into our own study abroad experience, and what we saw there compared to what we see daily in the U.S. We told our stories and gave the audience time to take in some of the similarities and differences. We then took time to go into more specific details about things we found were important in the world and trying to make people realize just how important these topics are in the not only the rest of the world, but in the U.S. as well. This topics included Human Trafficking, immigration, indigenous cultures and religion acceptance. The basic point of our CEE is we are trying to spread awareness that there is so much going on out in the world and people need to learn the importance of global competence. We encouraged them to study abroad, take a global issues class, a foreign language class, anything they can do to gain that global competency that the rest of the world has, that a lot of the U.S. doesn't seem to have.
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