LIVING TOGETHER

@ SZIGET 2018

Report on the Participation of the Living

Together Initiative at the Sziget Festival 2018

Edition and future perspectives

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Special thanks to

The great team of volunteers of Living Together at the Sziget festival

2018, for their great dynamism, remarkable solidarity and total

dedication: Carl, Ernis, Jantien, Julien, Maria, Maya, Millie, Monaf,

Rebecca and Richard, and the powerful leadership of Rania, young

Syrian journalist, co-lead of the initiative!

The Terre des hommes team who organised and accompanied the

action: Arina, Olsi, Vincent, and Fleure for her ‘rescue’ support! And

the entire team of Terre des hommes from Lausanne to Budapest who

contributed concretely to the success of this ground-breaking

experience.

The team of “Tent Without Borders”, especially Emese, Dina, Attila for

their warm welcome, inclusive management and daily care, smiles and

energy, and the tens of volunteers from the Museum of Ethnography

(Hungary); National Museum of History of Migration (France); Causa-

Creations (Austria) and the National Committee for UNICEF in Hungary

for their great friendship.

The general management of the Sziget festival, especially Jozsef and

his great team, who welcomed the Living Together initiative in record

time with generosity and solidarity.

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Table of content

Timeline 5

1. Living together strategy 6

2. The Living Together initiative 9

3. Sziget Festival and Tent Without borders 11

4. The Living Together team at Sziget 13

5. The activities 16

6. Youth engagement and empowerment 19

7. Open questionnaire to young people at the Sziget Festival 20

8. Results and overview 24

9. The next steps of our initiative 26

10. Short selection of answers to the question what does

"living together" mean to you? 28

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Acronyms

GCM Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular

Migration

GCR Global Compact for Refugees

LTI Living Together Initiative

Tdh Terre des hommes Lausanne

TDHIF Terre Des Hommes International Federation

TWB Tent Without Borders

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

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Timeline

2016 Design of the phase III of the Destination Unknown

campaign and development of the concept to support

migrants’ supporters and youth empowerment

OCT 2017 Techfugees summit, Paris: meeting with Rania Ali, young

Syrian journalist

JAN 2018 Service contract with Rania Ali to develop and co-lead the

“Living Together” initiative [Several trips all over Europe to interview

hundreds of young people and get their opinion on the LTI theme]

MAR 2018 Submission of ‘CHAMP’ project to the EU AMIF programme

containing the “Living Together” principles and activities

[project was accepted but put into the waiting list because of lack of EC funding]

APR 2018 Hackaton, Geneva: ideation exercise on the Living

Together concept

JUN 2018 Boot-camp, Budapest: development of the concept.

Allocation of a small grant [half of the team included young participants]

AUG 2018 Participation of the "Living Together" youth team at the

Sziget festival in Hungary [subject of the present report]

SEP 2018 Submission of “Living together” concept note to the EU

DEAR programme [answer expected in NOV 2018. If accepted, submission of

the full project proposal in JAN 2019]

OCT 2018 Boosting campaign in the social media in cooperation with

the Swiss ‘Amplify’ programme and the Hungarian ‘Majsair’

communication company [led by a young Hungarian entrepreneur member

of the Initiative]

NOV 2018 Participation to the ideation campaign to develop new

ideas based on lessons learned

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1. Living together strategy

A - The problem

• The majority of people in migration situations are young people;

• The point of view of young people (migrants and locals) is rarely

reflected (or even distorted) in mainstream media and social

media, let alone in the decision-making processes that affect

them;

• The rise of anti-migrant speech (and other toxic rhetoric) is in

continuous progression and the young population is one of the

major targets;

• The ultra-reactive anti-migrant discourse feeds on the pro-

migration discourse (and other inclusive discourses) often

tarnished by a lack of realism, too politically correct to be

relevant in terms of reflection and implementation (seductive

notions of softness and intellectual weakness to fight by a

discriminating 'realpolitik' playing on the identity crisis and the

fears of so-called host societies).

B - The initiative

• The innovative path proposed by the Living together initiative is

the proposal of real alternative information by young people for

young people (and indirectly for the media and decision-makers)

on the theme of living together;

• "We can live together, it's possible, I do it, you can do it,

express yourself! »;

• The testimonies of young people speak of the values, principles

and challenges of living together in our societies today;

• The testimonies systematically involve young people from

migrant and host communities to demonstrate the feasibility and

reality of the ideas and experiences presented;

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• Two interconnected axes of intervention were defined by the

youth teams accompanied by Tdh (Hackaton, boot camp, pilot

action at the Sziget festival): social media and participation in

public events;

• Today: we run a pilot phase of intensification of the campaign in

social media on the eve of global events in Marrakech (GFMD

and global pacts on migration) from October to December 2018.

C – Alignment with Tdh’s strategies and

allies

• Well positioned within Theory of change of the 'Children and

Youth in Migration' program, on points such as 'youth

empowerment' and 'public mobilization and advocacy work' and

the priority on innovation;

• Institutional will: increase the presence of Tdh in the media and

specialized forums and increase the participation of children and

young people in the organization's voice:

o Tdh officially supports the initiative,

o Tdh can use the materials produced by the initiative to

illustrate its purpose by highlighting the voice of young

people;

• With the Destination Unknown campaign, the initiative is aligned

with the priorities of phase III in terms of youth empowerment

and support to citizen initiatives to support migrants;

• In harmony with the approaches of European strategy of

'Children and Youth in Migration' programme on youth

empowerment by " not merely listening to their voice, but by

providing them with the means they need to act and raise their

voice";

• The Euro-Med Strategy of the 'Children and Youth in Migration'

programme, in development, will integrate elements similar to

the points mentioned above in an inter-regional logic.

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D - Strategy 2019 (Plan of action and Budget)

• Global plan of action - Goal 7: Define and implement advocacy

at the international and regional level and involve young Living

Together volunteers in advocacy initiatives (national, regional

and global);

• Budget per line:

o Service contract for youth leadership: secure the co-

leadership of Ms Rania Ali, a young Syrian Kurdish refugee

journalist in Austria, and ensure the quality of reporting

and interviews of young people in the Euro-Med zone;

o Sziget 2019: the initiative is trying to become a full

partner of the "Tent without Borders" (guest status for the

2018 edition) - participation in public events is one of the

two central activities of the initiative;

o Web and social media campaign: the initiative's sound box,

its website and presence on social media will be boosted

by a communication agency led by a young Hungarian

entrepreneur, himself a member of the initiative since June

2018 - this is the second core activity of the initiative;

o Inception in strategic countries (Greece and / or Ukraine):

to develop and / or strengthen Tdh's activities in the field

of youth empowerment on migration issues;

o Support to migrant supporters: a system of micro-grants

to encourage initiatives by young people who develop

activities on the same theme as that of the initiative.

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2. The Living Together initiative

“Living Together” is an initiative taken in 2017 by Terre des hommes

(Tdh) in the framework of its “Children and Youth in Migration”

programme, in line with “Destination Unknown” campaign run by

TDHIF since 2012. The action is co-led by Tdh and Rania Ali, a young

Syrian journalist.

Based on incremental design, the results of this initiative come from

the participants themselves: the youths. Two ways of developing

activities within the initiative were by establishing an online presence

(social media, website) and participating in different public events.

As part of the initiative, Ms Rania Ali travelled to different countries

where she met young people from migrant and host communities to

document their experiences on the positive impact as well as

challenges of living together.

In June 2018, the Living Together initiative participated in the first Tdh

organized Innovation Boot-Camp. Its participation comprised of a

diverse team of youths from migrant and host communities, as well as

external and Tdh experts on the relevant fields. The team came up

with innovative approaches to engage youths in the open space for

discussion.

Some of these innovative approaches discussed were on the role that

social media can play in the initiative through the inclusion of

“challenges” in order to engaging youth in the social medial channels.

Boomerang, a loop video of 3 seconds, was chosen to be one the first

challenges where youth would be invited to join the initiative by

Living Together is an open space for youths to freely express their

opinions about living together with people from different origins,

backgrounds and cultures.

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tagging their boomerangs with #boomerang2gether and

#living2gether.

A very interactive and engaging website was ideated in the boot-camp

which would serve as the base of the initiative where the different

stories as well as social media publications would be published. The

innovative approach of the website was that youth could directly

engage by posting their stories on Living Together.

During the boot-camp the youths mentioned that participation in

physical events is instrumental as the virtual participation is not

enough to engage youths. Thus the Living Together team and Tdh

contacted the organisers of the Sziget Festival, one of the main and

most important festivals in Europe, known not only for its music scene

but also for its diverse cultural programmes.

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3. The Sziget Festival and Tent Without Borders

Starting as a low-profile student event in 1993, Sziget Festival has

come to be one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe.

The weeklong festival is held every start of August at the Obudai

Sziget (Old Buda Sziget) on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary.

More than 1000 performances take place during the week each year.1

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sziget_Festival

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The organizers announced that this year’s festival drew a record

number of 565,000 visitors overpassing last time record of 2016 which

was 496,000 from 95 different countries.

Every year the theme of the festival changes. This year’s theme was

“Love Revolution” maintaining that : “We are all different: we come

from different parts of the world, speak different languages, believe in

different faiths, have different skin colours, have different interests &

taste and we prioritize differently. However, when we all gather

together we can realize that the power of our diversity unites us and

together we can change our environment.”2

The Tent without borders programme venue is the special

international venue of the Sziget Festival, dealing with the issue of

migration. It started in 2016 with the Hungarian Museum of

Ethnography and the

French National

Museum of the

History of Migration.

They presented an

exhibition and

programme directly

linked to the

migration crisis. In

2017 the focus of the

exhibition was the

integration of the

Roma community and topics related to migration. This year’s

organisation saw five partners implementing programmes within the

Tent: Museum of Ethnography (Hungary); National Museum of History

of Migration (France); Causa-Creations, a private company specialised

2 https://szigetfestival.com/en/love-revolution

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in producing ‘serious video games’ related to migration (Austria) and

the National Committee for UNICEF in Hungary.

4. The Living Together team at Sziget

“No more toxic messages against the unknown. Youths should raise their

voices and be heard by policy makers and the media. Listen to the youths,

they are right!”3

The Living Together initiative participated at the Sziget festival with a

team of 14 people (3 Tdh staff and 11 youths). The diversity of the

team stretched from different origins, different cultures, as well as

different backgrounds, and was gender-balanced:

Young volunteers:

1. Carl, Swedish student and leader of “One Third” NGO (M. 24)

2. Ernis, Bosnian migrant, living in Austria (M. 21) 3. Jantien, Dutch digital nomad (F. 29) 4. Julien, French student (M. 17)

5. Maria: Syrian student, refugee in France (F. 17) 6. Maya: Syrian student, refugees in France (F. 19) 7. Millie, English student (F. 19)

8. Monaf, Syrian student, refugee in Germany (M. 19) 9. Rania: Syrian Kurdish journalist, refugee in Austria (F. 22) 10. Rebecca, English student (F. 20)

11. Richard, Hungarian young entrepreneur (M. 25)

Some of the youths had already met Rania Ali, the young journalist co-

leading the initiative, as part of her travels from January 2018. Other

youths were engaged through different activities with the young

journalist or Tdh’s works.

3 Quote from the respondents of the survey

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Very few of them had met each other before. Nevertheless, it took half

a day for them to realise the fact that for the next 10 days they would

be living together, sharing experiences and moments together. They

became the essence of what Living Together stands for.

To have a full music and cultural festival experience the team spent

their whole days in big family tents in a camping site offered by Sziget

and equipped by Tdh.

The team of youths immediately developed a very close feeling of

friendship with each other. Not only were they together as a group

during the activities of the initiative, but even when the Living

Together activities would end for the day

they would all spend the free time

together. In a festival featuring over 200

activities at a given time the strength of

the bonds created kept them attached all

the time. They would always go to

different cultural programmes together.

The newly friendship created developed a

very lively, happy and organic feeling

during the whole time of the initiative. During the activities we did at

the festival, this friendship and closeness of the youth with each other

gave another dimension and beauty to the idea of Living Together. It

was very much appreciated by all the partners of Tent without borders.

That’s what Living Together is about.

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5. The activities

The Living Together team organised a set of activities dedicated to

young people visiting the festival. The objective of the activities was to

engage youths to express themselves about the experience,

challenges and pleasures of living together through videos,

boomerangs, photos, texts, drawing and open discussions. The

materials collected were disseminated on social media and will be

useful to develop communication

and advocacy messages in the

future.

The activities done during the

festival at the Tent Without

Borders were aligned with the

ideation that was generated

during the first Tdh Innovation

boot-camp. They focused as

much on virtual presence as on a physical one. Due to late invitation

to participate in the event, the programme of LTI for the festival was

prepared in the record time of one month.

The team participated every day in outreach activities in the festival

island to meet and talk with

festivalgoers: to introduce the

LTI, to invite the youth

festivalgoers to participate in

our initiative, invite the youth

to participate in our

programmes, to do a social

media challenge as well as just

to meet with other youth.

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During the evenings of the

festival, the team organized

talks and discussions in the

main room of the tent. The first

evening we introduced the

Living Together initiative in the

format of a talk and discussion

with all the participants who

were present there. We showed

the documentary: Escape from

Syria: Rania’s Odysseys, a

documentary filmed by Ms Rania Ali and directed by Anders Hammer.

Published by the Guardian Newspaper in UK4, the documentary has

already reached 15 million views. The screening was followed by

discussion with other visitors from the festival.

The evening programme was reserved for different other screenings

such as the stories on Living Together that were previously

documented with youths from different countries. Each interview

recorded in several EU countries was followed by a discussion about

what Living Together means for the participants at the Tent Without

Borders.

Alongside these two crucial

activities the youth festivalgoers

were invited to participate in more

engaging small activities that were

designed around the living

together idea. A big white plastic

sheet was put up which invited the

youth to write ideas of what does

Living Together mean for them. On the other side, a roll up paper was

4 https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/aug/02/escape-from-syria-ranias-odyssey-video

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put with a different topic and open question every day. The topic of

course invited the youth to express ideas around diversity,

multiculturalism, tolerance etc.

At the same time our young journalist Ms Rani Ali was always ready to

record interviews with different youths who agreed to share their story

on our website. Many of such interviews were recorded and they are

being uploaded on our website

youthtogether.live

During the outreach activity the youth festival

goers were invited to complete a survey with 10

questions. The questions in the survey were all

centred around the current discourse on

diversity and multiculturalism and aimed at

getting the perspective from the diversity of

youth participating in the festival. In the next

sections of this report you can find more details

on the content and results of this survey which was one of the most

engaging activities for the youths in the festival.

LTI went to Sziget festival not only with ideas and people but also with

several promotional materials that would help the initiative to roll out

to the public:

o 2’000 T-shirts with the logo of the initiative were produced to be

distributed to the festival goers who would participate in the

activities

o over 50 baseball caps were produced with the logo which were

distributed to those youth who would record their story with our

young journalist

o over 10’000 leaflets with our daily programme, website and

social media addresses were printed to be distributed in the

festival.

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6. Youth engagement and

empowerment

Young people are an integral part of

the initiative from its conception, and

from the start it aims at creating a

space for and with young people where

they can express themselves openly.

Thus, in the first public appearance of

the initiative, its participation at the

Sziget festival, the youth were

encouraged from the start to develop,

shape and adapt the activities to be

organised. It was through the engagement of the young participants

in the boot-camp that the main ideas of LTI became what they were

during the Festival.

The best example of young people engagement in the Initiative comes

from the LTI participation in TWB at Sziget Festival. From the moment

the youths participants were identified, they were invited to engage in

shaping the overall organization of the event:

o Both the visual identity and the social media campaign of the

initiative were shaped by a young volunteer who as an

entrepreneur runs a Design company. In the design stages of

the design, the other youth participants were engaged in

providing ideas and feedback

o While the core programme of activities was decided weeks

before the start, all youths, through their engagement and new

ideas introduced new activities and ideas that materialized

during the festival. For example:

1. contacting famous artists in order to show their support of

the initiative by doing a boomerang challenge;

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2. contacting music stage managers in the festival to be able

to jump in the different stages and create a boomerang;

3. writing blogs and personal stories on what Living Together

means for them and what was their experience in the

Festival

4. Make a “small fashion factory” for the Living Together t-

shirts that were given to youths participating in our

activities.

o The future of the Living Together lies in the young peoples’

ideas. The youth team engaged themselves in shaping this

future. During the debriefing that was held with the youth after

the festival, youngsters did put forward ideas as well as

proposals to take control of many aspects of the initiative.

7. Open questionnaire to young people at

Sziget Festival

The survey was developed by Tdh to accompany the outreach activity

of the youths. The survey was envisioned to be used as a conversation

starter into further discussion with young festival goers allowing to

invitate them to participate in activities happening in the tent during

the entire week.

Moreover the survey was designed to act as a tool for the initiative to

receive feedback from the youth on their perception on current

discourse on the idea of Living Together.

The results from the survey surpassed the expectations (203

respondents) and gave valuable insights that will be instrumental in

furthering the initiative.

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The current section in this report is showcasing the results of the

survey. Another report with more detailed analysis of the results from

the survey is being prepared and will be finalized in the coming weeks.

The main results from the survey are as follows:

Participation in the survey:

Age: 77% between 18 and 24 years old

(6% from 16 to 17 and 17% from 25 to 34)

Gender: 56% female 44% male

69% of the respondents came to the Sziget festival with friends from

the same country. 59% of them really like to be with people who are

different from them, and are looking for it and 41% prefer to live with

people like them, but are open to meet with different people.

Taking into consideration that the Sziget festival takes place in

Hungary 86% of the respondents were from Europe. However, there is

a slight representation of other regions of the world too. 5% of

respondents were from Southeast Asia and Australia; 4% came from

the Americas and 4% said they were from Africa. Only 2% of the

respondents said they came from countries in the Middle East.

How do you think the mass media (TV, radio, newspapers - NOT

social media) talks about migration and refugees?

35%: some media are talking properly about migration and refugees

but they are too few

24%: the mass media are NOT AT ALL talking properly about

migration and refugees. They even increase fears in the public

23%: the mass media talk properly about these issues

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12%: do not listen AT ALL to the mass media to make my own opinion

about migration

6% don’t care or don’t know

Do you think that the point of view of the youths is well

reflected in the public debate about migration, refugees and

the values and principles of living together?

Only 8.5% of the respondents agreed that the point of view of youths

was well reflected in the public debate. Majority of the respondents,

80%, said that youths view is either rarely reflected or distorted, or,

not reflected at all in the public debate.

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How would you describe the points of view and the opinions of

the youths in the social media on matters related to migration,

refugees and the values and principles of living together?

The portrayal of the point of view of youth on issues of migration,

refugees and living together on social media has provided more

balanced responses from those participating in the survey.

19% believe that the debates on social media on these issues are

„mostly positive”. On the other hand 15% said that these debates are

portraying the issues in a negative light.

27% of respondents said that the debates in the social media are

balanced while 27% mentions that in „social media you can find the

best and the worst when it comes to migration”.

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8. Results and overview

After seven days of participation at the TWB at Sziget Festival the

Living Together initiative has achieved excellent results. Despite the

very short period that LTI had to organize its participation in the event

the results and its success are impressive

o Tent Without Borders, where LTI was invited to participate within

the Sziget festival had an (estimated) average of 1000 visitors

per day. LTI had a tent just outside of the entrance of the TWB

area as well as many programmes and activities daily inside the

main tent itself. LTI team makes a conservative estimation that

a quarter of visitors at Tent without borders were visiting or

approached the Living Together team or activities, i.e. 250 per

day;

o Through the outreach visits carried out by the young volunteers,

150 young festival goers were reached per day

approximately;

o 203 people reached through the outreach visits directly engaged

with the Initiative by participating in answering our survey

(questionnaire);

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o 15 young people were engaged in the LTI by recording and

publishing their stories on Living Together;

o Over 500 people were reached through the social medias of LTI

in the first week of their set up: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,

Website

o Over 200 people engaged through the social media via

participating in the social media challenge.

o The total of young persons in contact with the initiative over the

seven days of its implementation is roughly 3’700 youths.

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9. The next steps of our initiative

The next steps for the initiative are of fundamental importance to

ensure that its impact is maximised and amplified over the next

months.

In the debriefing session many important

steps were pointed out in order to make the

initiative more successful and known to the

youngsters across European countries and

beyond.

Some of the most important outcomes from

the debriefing with the young volunteers

read as follow:

o further participation in events similar to Sziget festival;

o participation in other public events similar to GCM or GCR

organized by UN or other political bodies;

o engagement of the young people in their communities to become

the young “ambassadors” of the LTI

o organizing a “tour of Living Together” across European cities.

o engage influential people like young politicians, artists or sports

people to support the initiative and inform widespread about the

initiative in any way possible

o Creation of a youth board for the initiative to ensure the smooth

progress and its development.

Alongside the debriefing and all the ideas shared by the youth with

regard to the progress of the initiative, Tdh had also been working on

the possible next steps that would be necessary to accompany the

youth in developing the initiative:

o The CHAMP project: developing the main activities of the

Initiative, has been accepted in August 2018 by the European

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Commission but put in the waiting list because of lack of funding.

This project can be ‘recycled’ in the future for similar EU calls for

proposals.

o A concept note was submitted at the end of September 2018 to

the EU fund ‘Development education and awareness raising’

(DEAR). The concept note incorporates most of the operational

elements necessary to support the Living Together initiative and

could serve as the backbone of the initiative to positively evolve.

o Participation of the Initiative in the Sziget Festival 2019. The

Living Together initiative already received the invitation from the

organizing team of Tent Without Borders to participate in next

year programme. Moreover, the Sziget Festival Management has

shown positive signs in extending the invitation for 2019 as well.

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10. Short selection of answers to the question

what does "living together" mean to you?

(…)

No more toxic messages against the unknown. Youths should raise

their voices and be heard by policy makers and the media. Listen to

the youths, they are right!

Living together from a selfish perspective means personal growth -

you are incomplete when you have not had the opportunity to live and

learn from others from all over the world. The beauty of living together

is this growth can never stop. There is always more to know and more

to learn so that your mind is becoming increasingly open and your

view on the world becomes more complete. On a wider scale, living

together means peaceful coexistence, something every single person

in the world benefits from.

I think living together with people from other countries is a great way

of making new experiences and expanding your understanding of

people’s cultures. It shouldn't be important where someone is from,

what skin colour someone has, religion, gender identity or sexual

orientation. Kindness, solidarity, acceptance and love over hate and

fear.

For me it means accepting and respecting every person the way they

are, whether they are from a different background, sexual orientation

or gender identity. Everyone is human, made out of flesh and blood. It

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doesn't matter where you come from or how you express yourself -

the important thing is how you act and behave as a human towards

other humans. We should take the quote from The Little Prince as an

example: "The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."

To accept and to respect everyone around you and to full your mind

with information from all over the world so for me living together

means traveling without visas.

I think as long as people are polite and respectful of each other, living

together is a wonderful opportunity to grow and learn mentally,

spiritually, culturally, personally and in every sense of the world. We

are all people and citizens of the earth. Countries and borders are a

man-made construct that is toxic and a hindrance to the progression

of mankind. In order to live a full and happy existence we must focus

on helping each other as the only true important thing in this world is

love, kindness and the ability to be understanding and compassionate

towards all living beings.

One world, no borders. We are all equal and deserve a happy life.

I think that we have to be respectful towards each other even if we

don't understand other people's way of life and we should be able to

have open conversations even if we don't have the same opinion on

political / social / everyday life issues.

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I feel like living together means helping each other and just be kind

towards others after all, this is a world we all share. Borders are

keeping us from seeing we are all the same.

I think of my friends in Canada who have backgrounds from all over

the world - it's amazing, I learn so much!

Multiculturalism and acceptance, not just tolerance. Connecting to

people wherever they come from and treating everyone equally with

respect.

When we hear living together we think of Germany and its open

policies.

Living together means emerging in new cultures and way of living. By

that we get the opportunity to learn by and from each other in order to

gain a closer understanding of the different perspectives in this world.

I think it's hard but fun. I think everybody must try it and we can learn

from it.

For me, it is very important that people are being treated as equal

partners without being overlooked and I am very happy to draw

attention to this.

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Accepting everyone for who they are and basing opinions on their

characteristics and not their nationality.

To understand the other people's circumstances and help each other

when it is needed. It should be a principle among young people (and

of course among everybody).

We are different, but this is the beauty of life.

It's a way of living. It's not easy but we have to do it to ensure a

better future.

Bonding together as human beings in peace. Allowing equal

opportunities for everyone. No war. No racism. No sexism.

It is the right thing to do. Obviously.

It means that people can connect with each other without being on

their phone or computer or just social media and take care of each

other without a judgement.

Reciprocal respect of culture for the best. Everyone takes the best

version of everyone and their culture for in order to make the world a

better place.

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Whatever you are it’s cool.

This guy is from Australia where he says it's very rare to talk about

controversial topics and migration and refugees is one of them. He

says he's never heard debate/discussion about this amongst his age

group.

Being comfortable in each other so company, exchanging cultural

activities (e. G. Dutch have a very set way of living but changed since

meeting Turkish flatmates).

Live together with different people it's super to live but with the right

rules.

(…) to be continued…

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