DO

• Respect the group’s identity as a people.
• Be sure to contact, or use the resources from, the people themselves wherever possible.
• Present them as a people today.
• Give men and women equal emphasis.
• Place the group in its historical context.
• Allocate adequate time/space to positive aspects of the group’s culture.
• Make links between the treatment of minority groups in other cultures and the same processes and prejudices in this country.
• Emphasise that each person within a group is an individual and will not necessarily conform to any given generalisation.

DON’T

• Look at the group in isolation: every group operates within a power structure.
• Present the group as a problem (the problem more frequently lies with the dominant group’s perceptions).
• Present the group as exotic, primitive or uncivilised.
• Encourage a sense of your students’ cultural superiority.
• Use stereotypes, unless to counter them. In so doing avoid presenting a new kind of stereotype.
• Be patronising.
• Be afraid to say you don’t know.