1.1 Why talk about empathy?

Well, it is just one way of dismantling racism and starting to tackle unconscious and conscious bias.

If people could figuratively ‘put themselves in someone else’s shoes’ it would go some way to reduce prejudices and biases. But, we are born into a world that is already shaped by social factors such as laws, culture, education, beliefs, values, traditions, customs and norms, and we are socialised into ‘our’ world by dint of our birthplace, our primary caregivers and era.