Scenario5

Culturally Incompetent Scenario **
 * Scenario 5:



Aaliyah a Darfurian refugee has just been granted a refugee visa by the Canadian Refugee Asylum program. She can only speak Arabic and Swahili. She has never left her village and is very fascinated and terrified by the flying machine Brian the white man put her in. She feels nauseated, her ears block and she is scared. She has never felt this before. She wants to ask why she feels this way but the white woman by her cannot speak Swahili. She chooses not to embarrass her self. She needs to use the washroom, she cannot see it. She looks up and sees a sign which she has seen in the city before, she recognize that it means washroom. She has trouble opening the washroom door but the arrow sign aids her. She doesn’t know when this machine will get her to the Great Canada, her friend Alida who left 2 years before tells her about when they talk on the telephone. Brian the UN official gave her a slip to give to the airport workers when she gets there, she is terrified. The plane lands and she is directed by the airplane staff out the plane. As she steps out she is waiting to see the man who fits the description that Brian told her about back in Darfur, all the passengers disappear and she is left alone. She is scared. She would ask where to go but no one will understand her. She decides to courageously wonder about. She reaches a dead-end, a set of stairs that move. It amazes her, these stairs don’t wait, and she looks for signs like she saw in the plane, but they were non existent. She wants to get on but fears the machine might hurt her if she doesn’t know how to use it. She gently lays her hand on the rail but it moves. She is shocked. She wished someone would help her understand how to use this machine. She waits and hopes Brian’s friend finds her.

- Sign Showing Its for Passengers
 * //M//**//ust Have//

- Sign Showing How to Enter
 * //S//**//hould Have//

- Screen showing instructions of use in 5 most common languages
 * //C//**//ould Have//

- An interactive welcoming display.
 * //W//**//ant to Have//