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Defining the goal
During these five years of high school in the IB program, I’ve had the chance to learn a lot about this educational program and the learner’s profile. For this final year, I was assigned to use everything I’ve learned about the IB to do a personal project. A project on a large scale that will show everything I’ve understood about the program. I decided to take a topic that I love and for which I am passionate, which is my native country.
Actually, the real subject is a bit more precise and it is the prejudices on India in general. The reason why I’ve chosen this as my subject is because it’s really close to my heart because of the fact that it is related to my native country and mostly because of some of my observations. I have noticed that most of the people I know, friends, classmates and even teachers don’t really see India as it really is. Their knowledge and vision of India is very limited and they are not able to see India beyond the prejudices against it. These prejudices are numerous and some of them are a bit too engraved in their minds. Those are the ones I want to focus on and remove. The ones I’ve targeted are the prejudices on poverty in India, living conditions over there, languages, the film industries and gastronomy. The goal of my project was to raise awareness of the effects of prejudices on the image that my main audience, my secondary five classmates have on India.
To achieve my goal, I did a multimedia presentation on prejudices against India and India in general. The reason why I presented India in general is because by doing that I will be destroying every other prejudice against India that I may not have talked about. I started my presentation with a video montage I made on...

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...try, on its geography, history, culture and a lot more other subject related to it. I realised that my knowledge on these aspects was very minimal; researching on India really helped me expand my general knowledge and have a better understanding of my country. On top of that, I understood how much I liked making videos, editing them and doing all the process related to it, I practically discovered a new passion. I also discovered that I really like doing presentation and talking about topics that I find interesting and I really understood how much it is important to give knowledge to people and how much it is self-satisfying knowing that because of you someone knows a bit more about a subject. To conclude with the learner’s profile, this project helped me develop my reflective, thinking, inquiring and communicating self. I also am more open-minded and knowledge now.

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