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Amnesty International's experiment to highlight refugee crisis in Europe
Participants are asked to look at each other for four minutes
The reactions from the particpants are documneted in a video
Each pair is seated across from each other with their eyes shut; when they open them, here's what they see - a woman in a hijab sits opposite a woman without one, a little girl sees another little girl opposite her, an elderly bearded gentleman admires the moustache of the man he sees.
So how do they react? With tears and smiles and laughter. They shake hands, they hug, they talk, even though they may not speak the same language.
The moving video holds special relevance in a world that is divided over the refugee crisis in Europe. According to Amnesty International, a million refugees crossed into Europe last year - as it says at the end of the video, just like everyone else, each refugee has a story to tell.
Watch the beautiful video here:
Look beyond borders - a 4-minute experimentThere's a theory that four minutes of eye contact can bring people closer together than almost anything else. Here's what happened when refugees and Europeans looked beyond borders:
Posted by Amnesty International on Wednesday, 25 May 2016
