This activity challenges participants to consider the idea of "belonging" and what that means to them and others. They will listen to an episode of the Radiolab podcast, “For Whom the Cowbell Tolls,” and discuss/reflect on the concepts of naturalization, individualism, collectivism, assimilation, and xenophobia.

Participants can listen to the podcast individually on their own time (see the Links section in this tool). To adapt this activity to an online learning environment, the facilitator/instructor can ask participants to either write an essay based on the discussion questions in the instructions document (see the Downloads section of this tool), or they can discuss the questions in an online discussion board.