After reading article

I thought the three goals of the BCCC applied better to this Tunnel of Oppression, than to the one mentioned in the article, but some things fell a little short of the three goals.

Goal 1- Programs are centered on real lived experiences.
I feel that in almost all of the cases the tunnel at UMD did the best job that it could. In any case it is almost impossible to truly accurately represent subjects as if the viewer was the character, because if you live through the event, it will feel different than you would have expected it to. No one knows what being the victim of rape feels like unless you were the victim. In the exhibits where you could listen to someone making fun of someone else, this is the closest anyone could get to the feeling of this actually happening to them. I just also think that the exhibits were so in your face that it provoked emotions that made the experiences come as close to life as possible.

Goal 2- Programs challenge the participant to examine their own behavior within appropriate social constructs.
When the surveys about racisms were passed out, I thought this did a very good job challenging us to examine our own behaviors. Even though this was the only time something like a survey was passed out, I thought the whole exhibit made you think about the consequences of your own actions. For example when the headphones allowed you to listen to someone being made fun of, it made me think if I had ever treated someone the same. Also in the eating disorder exhibit, it made me realize that sometimes I do look at someone and compare their size to what I see in magazines and on TV.

Goal 3-Programs ultimately move the participant to act to break down stereotypes and barriers between people.
During the whole exhibit I kept thinking to myself what I could do to stop some of these awful things happening in the world, so even though there wasn’t anything like a debriefing, I thought the tunnel achieved this last goal.